Gouverneur
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I bought a 2014 Kubota ZD326P late last season with approximately 160 hours on it. It has the factory-installed mulch deck. The temperature gauge is hitting the low to mid part of the red area when under load. I don't know if the two problems are related or not, but the machine just doesn't seem like it has any power. It bogs down quite a bit under load even when I'm just cutting about five days' growth (I'm in Ohio) and removing about 1/3 of the blade of grass. I've verified that the grass is not building up underneath the deck when this is happening. I know you have to slow down a bit when mulching, but this is grass that my JD 636M QuikTrak would have no problem with. I find it hard to believe that a diesel machine with so few hours on it would have this little power. When I accelerate rapidly up a hill to verify that I'm losing power, it hesitates quite a bit but then catches up and will run at top speed.
I have meticulously cleaned the intake grilles, radiator screen, and radiator cooling fins. I've hit all the grease points on the machine and am running new blades. I've adjusted the fan belt tension so that there is about half an inch of deflection as per the manual. As far as I can tell, the water pump is circulating the coolant. I've replaced the thermostat, flushed the coolant, and verified the new antifreeze mix ratio. I just changed both fuel filters as well. I cut open the old ones and they didn't look too bad. The one toward the front of the machine (I believe this is the one that the fuel passes through right after leaving the tank) looked a bit dirtier than the one toward the back. I do have access to a fuel pressure tester. What should the PSI be at idle?
Where does the needle on the temperature gauge on these engines normally run? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
Marc
I have meticulously cleaned the intake grilles, radiator screen, and radiator cooling fins. I've hit all the grease points on the machine and am running new blades. I've adjusted the fan belt tension so that there is about half an inch of deflection as per the manual. As far as I can tell, the water pump is circulating the coolant. I've replaced the thermostat, flushed the coolant, and verified the new antifreeze mix ratio. I just changed both fuel filters as well. I cut open the old ones and they didn't look too bad. The one toward the front of the machine (I believe this is the one that the fuel passes through right after leaving the tank) looked a bit dirtier than the one toward the back. I do have access to a fuel pressure tester. What should the PSI be at idle?
Where does the needle on the temperature gauge on these engines normally run? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
Marc