Thank you very much. Exactly the info I was looking for. I assumed I would have to disassemble fan assembly and/or pulley but the leak has to be fixed. Oil is making its way to radiator and slowly plugging it. Thanks again
Hi.
Your fan pulleys and radiator looks pretty dry to me at this point.
I’d just keep an eye on it and give it an occasional blast with the steam cleaner once in a while.It’s unlikely ever to leak that much oil from that pto area and its a lot of effort to get at it properly.
If your fan assembly starts to appear worse and worse with oil,then it’s likely to be crankshaft seal or the little cork strip gasket at the point where the fuel pump bolts onto the timing case(they allways leak there and the fan sucks it in.A grass sod cures that).
However,if you want to replace that weeping pto gasket,the radiator needs to come out,then all the pulleys.You MUST do the crankshaft seal while you’re in that deep and it’s wise to replace all 3 pulleys with cheap non genuine Cat ones the same time.Non oem pulleys are a few hundred quid as opposed to Cat ones costing thousands and are very suitable for your machine.But genuine Cat fan belts though.
My thoughts are to just let it develope.It will only ever weep from that gasket on the pto housing,not leak heavily.If you’ve oil flying about the fan,then check for obvious hyd hose leaks,then fuel pump dripping down into the belly plate,then brace yourself for the enevitable crank seal