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West-Central IL | We’ve had similar small issues.
Bought ours off of a JD lot someone had traded in. Blew the rubber off a small idler on the first drive home. Since then we’ve had 2 or 3 more. I just run them with whatever partial rubber is left until I get some rebuilt ones done. They’re not to bad with the core charge.
Have had the belt problems on both belts. First belt took out the wiring to the fan clutch, new clutch, that was not so cheap. Found an alternator bracket that was cracked, took it off and welded and it’s been fine. Replaced the main belt idler bearing also as it was on the way out. do Not buy from cat. Bearing can be found from Timken, I had to have it ordered from a bearing distributor. Cat wanted to sell me the entire spring loaded idler assembly only as a one piece unit.
Had water pump belt eating also. Replacing the spring arm idler as you said (cat part only) fixed that.
Reaction bearings have been fine. We change them now because it’s a big scare and everyone says you should. Have an mt765a with over 6000 hrs that only has had 1 side replaced and we never were changing the oil until we got the D
I just noticed fuel drips on ours sitting in the shed all winter. Probably has never sat while clear full like this for very long. Can you elaborate on the “bellows” part. Sounds like I may get to check that before planting with it.
Minor nuisance issues that we could fix at least, have not had a tech out except for the fan clutch
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Looking at a cat challenger mt765d, what to inspect?
