Hodge71 665 #1 Posted January 3, 2014 Ran the Charger quite hard today. We got about 10 inches of snow but the way the land lies on the farm here, there was more than 1 place on the driveway that had 3 foot drifts. Charger handled everything with ease but I saw 2 things today that I never ever saw on any horse I ever owned, hopefully because of the -10 with -35 wind chills during plowing.... First…After plowing a bit I had to move vehicles around so I left the Charger idling while I did this…I saw water vapor in the exhaust at idle. I never saw it before on any Wheel Horse after about 30 second of running immediately after start-up, she was plenty warm at the point of this happening and it did it every time I idled her. The second was after plowing the entire driveway (1/2 mile long) I parked her to let her sit a bit idling before I shut her off and there was massive amounts of steam come from under the rear seat pan. I put my hand on pretty much every place I could find and while it was very warm…it wasn't hot enough to burn me….just enough to warm my paws and melt lots of snow that was laying around it from the tire chains throwing it around. Do the Sundstrand hydrogear trannys run hotter than the later Sundstrand hydro's or was this steam just because of the extremely cold ambient temps? Ill post a vid of her plowing the lane as soon as I get some time this afternoon…. Any input on the issues would be great Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leeave96 490 #2 Posted January 3, 2014 One of the byproducts of combustion is water - so what you are seeing at idle is normal. The temperatures are so cold that the vapor is condensed to water - not unlike what one would see when droplets of water are dripping from a car exhaust on a cold morning. I can't speak for the Sunstrand (or even Eaton 1100 hydros - which is what I have run). I've never put a thermometer on them in hot or cold weather, but maybe I should. I also have a few IH Cub Cadets and I am to understand that in the midwest where there are some "plow days" for moldboard plowing, while the gear drive IHCC's run all day cool, the hydro's can get so hot the hydro fluid can boil out of them under continuous load. I would think a hot hydro in a Wheelhorse, especially after working it like you have done, would occur. You might check to see if the cooling fan is fully intact, your fluid level is where it should be and that your cooling fins on the hydro are clean. Good luck, Bill 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hodge71 665 #3 Posted January 4, 2014 Bill, The Dexron is right at full and being that this tractor is a 1971 the fan is cast right into the pulley….no problems there…. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeremi3210 742 #4 Posted January 4, 2014 I noticed that samething on my c121 after snow plowing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oaktown1987 82 #5 Posted January 7, 2014 Since I put the stack on my 875 it blows steam all over the place Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
