australian pete
Senior Member
over the last couple of months my C16 CAT engine in my vermeer horizontal grinder has been using a lot more fuel and has a slight miss under heavy load, it has done 800 hours. still under warranty. called local cat dealer who sent a guy out, hooked up laptop while we loaded timber in grinder, found a slight miss in number 3 cylinder, came out again next day with another guy, did some more anaylisis with laptop while under load, pulled off turbo, found damage, suggested i float machine to dealer who is only 40 minutes away, loaded grinder and headed to CAT HOSPITAL, there they pulled off head, found a piece of metal they say has been in there since engine was assembled, floated around for approx 750 hours then tried to exit cylinder via valve, got chopped by valve and piece went in to turbo while other piece got hammered under valve, patient expected to make full recovery, service manager told me this arvo patient should be discharged from hospital saturday around mid day.