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Dozer, why you overheat?
Feb. 15th, 2019 07:07 amTook the dozer (1972 IH 500C crawler tractor, it looks like this from the driver's seat) up the road to scrape off the 3" of frozen sleet shit we got on Monday Night. I'd been hoping it would melt but... no. And it has an inch-thick crust that supports my weight. So... road needed to be scraped off. Dozer went up fine and back fine to almost-home and then boiled over the radiator. So it's not happy. I drove it the last hundred yards to the shed and parked it. But, it was dark so I couldn't do much in the way of investigating. It was running when I shut it off, but I dunno. Not Good to overheat the machinery. And we still have winter left.
Ugh. I'm gonna peer at it this morning to see what I can see. (I am NOT A MECHANIC.) But the roads in the valley aren't done and it's a three day weekend coming up and the summer people are gonna all be up in my ass about why aren't the roads done and I'm going to be "LOOK MY MACHINERY IT IS OLD AND CREAKY" and also "WHO AMONG YOU CAN REPAIR A FORTY-SIX YEAR OLD ENGINE?" and when they go "Lo, verily we understand this truth and you are wise, but is there not a perfectly cromulent plow truck?" I will have to reply "S'trewth, there is a plow truck but alas I cannot get it to engage in the driving of four wheels, only the driving of two wheels. Also it was born in 1983 and thus has the years of thirty six." They will be displeased with these responses, I am sure.
I'm hoping it's a fan belt.
Ugh. I'm gonna peer at it this morning to see what I can see. (I am NOT A MECHANIC.) But the roads in the valley aren't done and it's a three day weekend coming up and the summer people are gonna all be up in my ass about why aren't the roads done and I'm going to be "LOOK MY MACHINERY IT IS OLD AND CREAKY" and also "WHO AMONG YOU CAN REPAIR A FORTY-SIX YEAR OLD ENGINE?" and when they go "Lo, verily we understand this truth and you are wise, but is there not a perfectly cromulent plow truck?" I will have to reply "S'trewth, there is a plow truck but alas I cannot get it to engage in the driving of four wheels, only the driving of two wheels. Also it was born in 1983 and thus has the years of thirty six." They will be displeased with these responses, I am sure.
I'm hoping it's a fan belt.
