Few ?? about Bobcat

[cat2]

Hi, Just wondering if there are any parts on a Bobcat s-160 that normally go bad. I know the normal stuff, but is there a sensor that always seems to go bad? stuff like that. I like to keep parts here to i don't have much down time. So far my downtime has been zero. i plan on keeping this machine for at least 5,000 hours

[SellingIron]

The S160 is a good Skid. Just make sure like anything else grease the pins and change the oil/filters. What kind of work do you do? If you are a Dairy farmer, expect more than 5000 hours....

[Junior M]

some of the Bobcat salesman and guys who have had experience with the newer Bobcats speak up here, but in all the Bobcats I've ran with more than 500 hours(not sure if this is just a fluke thing or something that acutally happens) but it seems the sensor that tells you you are running hot goes bad after a while. I've had it happen on the 335 and on the T190.. It would only do it on the 335 if it was shaken alot or was on a slope, like the dovetail of the trailer. And you never knew when the T190 was going to do it, but it'd go off every once and a while and I'd check all the fluids, everything and it'd be just fine.. I even had the mechanic look at it and he said it was just going bad.

So I dont know if this is a common thing among the Kseries or if its just a fluke thing that happens to me and only me.. ;)

[cat2]

The S160 is a good Skid. Just make sure like anything else grease the pins and change the oil/filters. What kind of work do you do? If you are a Dairy farmer, expect more than 5000 hours....






Thanks for the info, beef farmer here. We run 1,600 a year. The crap they make is unreal :laugh: so far I loaded over 5,000 tons of it. And load 3,000 tons of silage. I keep it busy picking up round bales of straw and hay in season, I do some landscape work for neighbors, put a driveway in last week. Move a lot of snow. I put roughly 1,000 hours a year on the machine.