TimberKing 2000 Blown motor

vfauto · November 23, 2021, 06:38:26 AM

I have a TimberKing 2000 with only 120 hrs on it and the engine blew up. There are no Kohler replacement engines anywhere and I am wondering if there are any other options anyone has used for a engine?

Thanks Frank

doc henderson · November 23, 2021, 06:52:11 AM

Frank, have you checked with TimberKing. Matt will know what is available from them and often has advice, if they have seen this in the past. The advertise diesel replacements on the website to the left. when you say blew up, what exactly broke, and why? are you asking if we know of a used engine, or if we want and have a use for a used blown engine. thanks. Doc

25HP Kubota Diesel Upgrade for TK 2000

Will_Johnson · November 23, 2021, 09:23:07 AM

Hi Frank:

Sorry to hear that. Looks like it's a 2015 machine? We should be able to find a positive path forward. Please give us a call.

Best,

Will

Bruno of NH · November 23, 2021, 03:01:15 PM

Thanks Will for helping him out

vfauto · November 23, 2021, 07:09:47 PM

TimberKing could not help me, i found a motor that i will just transfer accessories. Thanks all

doc henderson · November 23, 2021, 07:25:21 PM

what exactly blew up on the old motor?

vfauto · November 24, 2021, 07:38:54 AM

Connecting rod threw the block

doc henderson · November 24, 2021, 09:07:18 AM

Yup. that is hard to fix. thx.

Will_Johnson · November 24, 2021, 10:29:30 AM

With respect, I don't think "TimberKing could not help" is a fair reflection of our involvement here.

It's true we do not have an exact replacement engine on-hand at this moment that we can send. The nature of the times.

However, we did offer two other engine options that would work. We also worked with you to confirm the specs in the third party engine you found so that you could be sure it would work. Our head service tech spent over an hour yesterday in one way or another working on this with you/for you.

We can agree to disagree, but in my book, that counts as "help."

maple flats · November 24, 2021, 02:11:34 PM

If anyone ever has a similar failure in the future, check for a short block. Back in the late 80's I had a Briggs fail on an irrigation pump, threw the rod. I used this pump to run 43 sprinklers on an irrigation system for frost control in strawberries. It was a 13 hp engine on a Hale Fire pump. I got a short block by early afternoon the same day and had the parts all swapped out by 6 pm. I was able to run the pump again that next night and lost very little due to frost damage, likely when the engine failed at about 7am that morning it had almost lost all of the ice. For frost control in strawberries I ran the sprinklers as soon as the temperatures fell to 35F , ran it all night . As it froze the strawberries built up a coating of ice. I then ran the irrigation until the ice melted off, that saved the crop.
I don't recall how long after the pump quit that thew ice was gone, but it must have been fairly soon after. When I had to run frost control it varied from about 7:00 til as late as 10:30 at times before the ice melted. That all depended on how long it was below freezing and how much ice had built up on the berries.

vfauto · November 24, 2021, 07:18:28 PM

No short or long blocks available

vfauto · November 24, 2021, 07:21:21 PM

Quote from: Will_Johnson on November 24, 2021, 10:29:30 AM
With respect, I don't think "TimberKing could not help" is a fair reflection of our involvement here.

It's true we do not have an exact replacement engine on-hand at this moment that we can send. The nature of the times.

However, we did offer two other engine options that would work. We also worked with you to confirm the specs in the third party engine you found so that you could be sure it would work. Our head service tech spent over an hour yesterday in one way or another working on this with you/for you.

We can agree to disagree, but in my book, that counts as "help."

Will,you are correct I just didn't want to lose all that HP.

Old Greenhorn · November 24, 2021, 09:19:17 PM

Will, for what it's worth, when I read the OPs post that you couldn't help him I strongly suspected that was a poorly phrased statement. I am not a TK owner, but as many other FF regulars know, you guys have a great rep and don't shirk on serving your owners in any way you can and have done very well at that over the years. There are of course limits in today's operating circumstances and shortages are everywhere. I wish the OP had done a better job of representing what actually happened, but perhaps he doesn't realize the widespread readership of the various threads and posts here or the impact of his statement. TK is one of the mill builders at the top of the pile. He just had a bad break with and engine at a bad time in history.

Southside · November 24, 2021, 09:29:44 PM

Old Greenhorn, if you haven't expand the OP's quote above your post, I think he addressed what you are saying and all is good, looks like everyone is on the same page, just a somantics issue that happens in non live conversations where you can't get a feel for how someone said something.

Too bad about the engine - guess it was past the JB Weld repair status eh? :D

Old Greenhorn · November 24, 2021, 09:42:07 PM

Yes, I did see that, but I just wanted to let Will know that the regular readers and members here like myself still have a high opinion of them which would take a lot more than a single post to change.
Yes, it's a bummer to have a thrown rod. No predicting that and not a lot of options to move forward.