Hi grass people, Against my better judgement I bought a home with 1 1/2 acres of grass about 7 years ago, and innocently bought a Craftsman YTD 4000 48" lawn tractor. As a maintenance freak with cars I thought careful oil changes etc would hold me in good stead... what an education! Anyway I finally put an oil cooler and fan along with oil temp and oil pressure gages on the beast. I wonder if anyone would be interested in how? Otherwise I'll just read the forum. Regards Motoman
my fix to overheating tractor
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reynoldston
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Welcome to the forum, We sure would be interested seeing that is what this forum is all about.:smile:
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Absolutely, by all means. Post some photos please, I need a visual aid..
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The past 30 years I have used water cooled mowers to do my mowing but this spring I bought a air cooled mower and I have been thinking about installing a oil cooler on it.
Absolutely, by all means. Post some photos please, I need a visual aid..
Hi Robert, I am trying to learn how to load pics. But the larger frustration is my long winded story which apparently will not fit the allowed space. I was cut off yesterday, and may have to tell it in segments. I guess I thought this forum would allow large explanations like car forums. Motoman
Briana, Help. AM I too long winded for this site. To show and tell I need more text space than I have been able to get here. Cut off twice yesterday before I finished. Also few will be able to visualize my fix without close-up pics. Tx Motoman
Benski, Unless you can tell me of superior cooling with synthetic I do not see how that would have helped. Was using 10w30. The only damage to the engine (besides the cam) was a pushed valve guide which I attribute to overheating of the al head and /or max tolerances of components vs over heat. Motoman
Briana, Sorry to bug you again, but the first installment of the story is still in the "modification" section . Can you move it to the "General..." also so the installments can be in one place? Tx motoman PS look for "Cooling hot INTEK"