Mounting a non original engine on a Caterpillar Skid steer

[Eferre]

Hi everyone. Turns out some guy is offering me a Cat 226b with a missing engine. I know original CAT engines (think it had a 3034d) are pricey and hard to find. He told me that i can put another engine on it but I'm reluctant to believe that. Is that so? Is it possible to mount a, lets say, kubota engine on a CAT skid steer?. Thanks.:thumbsup:

 

[paulharvey]

I hate to answer, cause have no facts, but...being that everything runs off the hydro pump, I would think anything that would turn the pump and physically fit in engine compartment would work. Might be a major ordeal to get it all together and working though.

 

[aczlan]

See http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/land-clearing-equipment/282326-repowering-my-ftx-90-l.html for someone who repowered a mulcher which is setup similar to a skidsteer.

Aaron Z

 

[Kernopelli]

Agree with pualharvey....you could "probably" retrofit an engine but who knows what all you would have to do until you were actually doing the replacement. It appears the 226's CAT3034 is the same/ or compatible engine as the Perkins Perkins 704.30. Replacements on either are astronomical in my book......$5000 was the cheapest used engine I saw and remans start at $8000. Unless the seller is practically giving the machine away, I think I would pass it up.......the price or hassle involved in replacing the engine is probably the reason he isn't fixing the problem himself.

 

[merlynr]

I get a magazine called Farm Show and read several articles where someone repowered their skidsteer. Most of them said it wasn't that difficult.

 

[tessiers]

Depends on the repower, should be quite easy. Skid steer engines are direct coupled to the hydraulic system, simple enough, may need to fabricate some engine mounts and such, the rest is simply controls and gauges for the engine. Hard if you never done any of it before, easy for a tinkerer. If it were me and I could buy it cheap enough I would do it. I don't know the HP but you can find some small Kubota engines in the 50 hp range pretty reasonable, maybe $1500 or so.

 

[bamboozled]

Wouldn't pay more than scrap value for it.

 

[merlynr]

Go to farmshow.com and search "repower" and you will find several articles.

 

[tessiers]

I wouldn't pay more than scrap price if it were running I don't know why you guys buy all these new tractors when you can buy 3 or 4 old ones for the same money, what do you do when you aren't running the tractor?

Depends on the repower, should be quite easy. Skid steer engines are direct coupled to the hydraulic system, simple enough, may need to fabricate some engine mounts and such, the rest is simply controls and gauges for the engine. Hard if you never done any of it before, easy for a tinkerer. If it were me and I could buy it cheap enough I would do it. I don't know the HP but you can find some small Kubota engines in the 50 hp range pretty reasonable, maybe $1500 or so.