Check your Temp light

[alorio1]

Just a heads up on temp light on rebuilt or refurbished Yanmars. A friend of mine purchased a refurbished 3110D with a front end loader from a rebuilder of shipped over Yanmars. After about 4 months of owning the tractor it was time to disk up his field and get it ready to plant his crops. He was pulling his disk and after about an hour he noticed the tractor was loosing power and started boiling over coolant fluid into the reservoir. He shut the tractor down and walked back to his house and waited for the engine to cool down. After about an hour he started the tractor and drove it to the shop to see why the temp light did not light up. He grounded the wire leading from the temp switch which should have made the light lite up. The light did not lite up, up on further investigation he found that the temp lite bulb had been removed. He took the radiator out and brought it to a radiato shop and had it boiled out. The owner of the shop told him there was mud in the bottom of the radiator and showed him the vat he used to boil the radiator out and it was full of brown mud. They both came to the conclusion that while working the tractor in the rice fields, if the tractor ran low on water they would dip up some water from the rice field and refill the radiator. The end result for my friend was he had to boil out his radiator and have the head milled because it had warped. So check your temp sending unit and make sure you have a good bulb in the socket that will function should your engine begin to over heat.

 

[careyo63]

Yep! Typical for a VN. Thats how I check my Temp. light is to ground the Lead out and the light should come on. I wasn't up on the Imported VNer's when I bought my Ym2000 ASIS. I changed and flushed my Cooling system just to know it was done along with other maint.

 

[clemsonfor]

Yea that mud is typical for any yanmar, VN or not. The ones from fredericks i am sure they flush them but the others come with mud all all

 

[California]

Somewhere I read that it is common to drain these for the winter then refill with ditch water for the working season. For various values of 'ditch water'. (Rice paddy mud?)

Len (importer) once posted that it is common to find the 4x4 front axle full of mud too, since these are run half submerged in the rice paddies for the first couple of decades before they are shipped over here.

I agree it is essential to check everything before putting a 'reconditioned' Yanmar in service.

 

[kenmac]

Yea that mud is typical for any yanmar, VN or not. The ones from fredericks i am sure they flush them

If I'm not mistaken. Tom Fredricks installs a new radiator in every yanmar tractor he sells... Well, he doesn't his men do

 

[clemsonfor]

probably kenmac!!

My Vn recon came with a cracked radiator. looked like it froze, crack was on the top tank. The next one they gave me off a tractor in the shop to replace it was also cracked!!!! and i think thats when they just ordered me a new one. No trouble since. My guess is that most of them are leaking or cracked on the VN with the ratio that i saw!!!

 

[clemsonfor]

probably kenmac!!

My Vn recon came with a cracked radiator. looked like it froze, crack was on the top tank. The next one they gave me off a tractor in the shop to replace it was also cracked!!!! and i think thats when they just ordered me a new one. No trouble since. My guess is that most of them are leaking or cracked on the VN with the ratio that i saw!!!

 

[California]

As I've posted before - I bought a third-party new replacement aluminum head for my 88 Trooper. It came with a warranty that was conditional on installing a new radiator. They clearly didn't consider a radiator to be a lifetime component.

 

[normde2001]

As I've posted before - I bought a third-party new replacement aluminum head for my 88 Trooper. It came with a warranty that was conditional on installing a new radiator. They clearly didn't consider a radiator to be a lifetime component.

I can understand that. Kind of like an AC compressor needing a new dryer for warranty.

 

[jerrybob]

Here's an interesting video of a two wheel yanmar being used in the rice fields.......yea....check the radiator!!

Yanmar Two Wheel Diesel Hand Tractor Power Plow - YouTube

 

[clemsonfor]

I dont see a radiator on that one?

 

[jerrybob]

I dont see a radiator on that one?

Yea you're right.....I was focusing more on the mud.......that's what a lot of the yanmar tractors grew up in!

 

[lewjay]

I bought a mechanical water temp gauge for my tractor. Had to buy the metric adaptor but while running the tractor in the Ga heat it did not get over 160.

 

[Smoody]

Rule of thumb: When purchasing a yanmar or any tractor older then 10 years, put a new radiator in it and be done with it. I use to clean them but find it pointless and with the investment of a tractor whats a few hundred more to know the cooling system is ok. just my .02

 

[clemsonfor]

good advice Smoody....long time no hear!!!

I haveent been on here much my self in the last year of so. trying to make it a point to get on here more recently.

 

[bmaverick]

Phew, this makes me glad I got my Yanmar from Fredricks Equipment. They rebuid the Yanmars here in the USA from the ground up. New RAD, hoses, clamps, etc. Nothing to worry about.

 

[Captain R]

I bought a mechanical water temp gauge for my tractor. Had to buy the metric adaptor but while running the tractor in the Ga heat it did not get over 160.

My idiot lights are not trustworthy at all. I'd like to put mechanical gauges on my 3110-D. Where can you find metric adapters for US oil pressure and temperature gauge sets? I'd appreciate any suggestions..... Just bought the gauges and looking...

 

[winston1]

Yanmar Tractor Parts OIL PRESSURE GAUGE ADAPTER - NPT TO "YANMAR" THREADS
Yanmar Tractor Parts METRIC TEMPERATURE GAUGE ADAPTER

 

[RUMBLON]

I have a question, I hate the so called idiot light. Do they make a gauge kit for this application and if so, has anyone installed one and where did you put the gauge? What should the tempo be on these little rigs. Mine is a 2210BD. currently out of commission.