Becarefull if buying anything with perkins 1104-44t engine

[Heavyduty]

I don't know what you get so riled up about.
I HAVE one of these ASV's myself with the Perkins in it.
It don't friggin matter what equipment an engine runs in.Any one can/will overheat if the rad gets clogged,new or not.
If you know your machine is prone to getting hot,then keep an eye on it.
THAT IS WHAT THE FRIGGIN GAUGE IS FOR,
When a operator desides to ignore that little gadget then don't be surpriced if the thing blows up.

I do mulch,altough not for a living, but i know when to back off when it gets to tough
for that engine.

Sure, whatever you say dude.

 

[slowzuki]

I know if I hire someone to operate my tractor to mow a field, and don't tell him different, he will run that tractor until it stops. The average Joe won't think, hey the needles getting a bit high. They tend to think, oh I'm almost done, he doesn't pay me enough to worry about that stuff, he just wants the job done.

I'm guilty myself of pushing a machine with clogged rad to get the day done, AC goes off, heater goes full on, doors open, slow down so the engine isn't working so hard etc. Its pretty darned easy to cook something from doing that.

It looks like most of the Perkins failures in the ASV have to do with oil loss at some point, and cooling second. That doesn't mean that Perkins motor is junk.

 

[tonyoz]

My RC100 was fitted with a Murphy temp gauge and wired to an alarm by the agent as part of the package.When that went off you couldn't sit in the cab. The mounting position of the factory gauges is all wrong for a mulcher setup in the fact that you are looking down watching were you are going, watching the mulcher head working etc and very seldom look up at the top of the cab. The Rayco C140 has the same issues as far as cab layout is concerned and I have mounted a temp and oil pressure gauge near the control levers and now able to keep a better eye on things.:thumbsup:

 

[Heavyduty]

My RC100 was fitted with a Murphy temp gauge and wired to an alarm by the agent as part of the package.When that went off you couldn't sit in the cab. The mounting position of the factory gauges is all wrong for a mulcher setup in the fact that you are looking down watching were you are going, watching the mulcher head working etc and very seldom look up at the top of the cab. The Rayco C140 has the same issues as far as cab layout is concerned and I have mounted a temp and oil pressure gauge near the control levers and now able to keep a better eye on things.:thumbsup:

Yeah, that's a good idea. I had a murphy temp guage set up to shut the engine down on one of my tractors. Saved me a couple times.

 

[treeman40]

Been on vacation .wow.Nobody said perkins are junk.ASVs are junk and there made to work a couple hours a day on a fence row . if you like them so much i can hook you up with a couple .

 

[Digdeep]

Been on vacation .wow.Nobody said perkins are junk.ASVs are junk and there made to work a couple hours a day on a fence row . if you like them so much i can hook you up with a couple .

Oh yeah, I remember you now.

You're the one that had four engines go bad in three machines, only to now say (after three turns in the barrel) they're only good for landscaping. Hey....wanna buy a bridge, or better yet, some ocean front property ;-)....it's got lots of fence row.

I'm not gonna rehash this whole thing again, but I will point out that in post #43 you said, "IM in the mulching bus and theres a problem with the engines i keep blowing up in a asv.".

Of course I'm just yanking your chain. Out of curiosity, why didn't you buy another brand after the first engine, or the second machine?

 

[treeman40]

yeah i have several different kinds of machines.

 

[jamesn]

try a little pm, boys. if the temp gauge reads hot, shut it down, not off but turn the head off and let it idle to cool down,.... ive never had a roblem with perkins engines. a 100 hp machine is not much, 4-7 inch trees is all it can handle. slow down and dont heat up the machine.

 

[Bluto1954]

First off, the ASV RC or PT 100 machine that is used for brush cutting or mulching needs to have its radiator blown out at least once a day and, gently, washed out once a week. Any real dirty conditions that the high flow is used contstantly will cause overheating if the radiator is not kept clean. If you look at the inside, fan side, of the radiator, on a machine with overheating problems, chances are that you will see the fins on the outer 4 inches bent over...in a circle, with a clear center section about the size of a baketball. This outer portion of the radiator, on ASV's, constitutes about 85% of its cooling ability. The fins are beaten over by debris and atomized pitch that is circulated inside the fan screen, thus the importance of keeping the radiator and shroud area as clean as possible. Once these cooling fins are bent down you loose 20 to 40 percent of the machines cooling ability even with a clean radiator. The machine will run just fine with a dirt bucket, but as soon as you stress it by working it with heavy high flow work, you will see overheating.

 

[tonyoz]

The other thing that happens with any machine driving a mulcher is the sap from the vegetation is sucked into the cooler along with dust. When you start having overheating problems even though you regularly blow out the cooler it more than likley time to pull the cooler out and give it an acid bath.It worked for me:thumbsup: