CK25 strange death symptoms

[ERE]

Yes, I would definitely recommend Conestoga but I'm not sure what they can do for anyone if there is a country (world?) wide shortage of the gears. I would recommend giving them a call first to see what the situation is. They were knowledgeable, friendly, and had reasonable rates. It cost me $189 for the repair, albiet with used gears.

As to the ultimate cause, I don't know how to factor in the information that other engine brands have the exact same problem. The folks at Conestoga said that they had assumed that it was simply a vibration problem causing failure over time. The pumps/gears, which are bolted to the engine just suffer fatigue fracture after so many cycles. I don't think those gears have enough stress on them to fail from fatigue unless they were faulty. Typically you need to have stress above a threshold level before a metal becomes subject to fatigue failure. The frustrating thing is that we have to "guess" based on the limited information we have.

 

[Coyote machine]

Glad to hear you got your CK back running, even with available but scarce used parts. Though we don't yet have enough failures to definitively conclude cause and effect, we do have anecdotal data which can be noted in the charts that have been compiled to date, and updated as more data becomes available. We are certainly further along than when ritchyvs began recording data.