Combines Duetz Motor R62

I have a Deutz in my 12-year-old R60 that is the best engine I have ever had in combines or tractors. I blow out the air plenum once a year and never do anything else to it. There is no daily maintenance on it. I would definitely buy another Deutz. Tom in MN

R62 must be one great machine if it can put a JD 9600 series to shame in the same field. On a damp fall day I was combining green beans at 5 miles an hour while the R62 went home. I guess it depends on who set them and also a personall preference.

Neighbors with a 9610 aren't even out of the shed when I start to combine with my lowly old N6 and go to bed much sooner. Both are running 20' flex and my PROBlEM is the sickle speed. I can put more in than the sickle can cut without pushing it over. Mine is P1 Hyperized, but the neighbor has all accessories on the 9610 too. With a P3 and 50 more HP than my N6 there should not be a contest. Neighbor with an R62(Stock) does not do any better than my N6 Hyperized. Conclusion, if I can easily beat a 9610 dressed out with my Hyperized(dressed out)N6 than an R62(stock) should easily win too. And don't even talk about Corn and a Rotary over a conventional. Deere would NOT have gone that way after 20+ years of bad mouthing Rotary designs if it wasn't better. Other neighbor with an STS can't keep his in the field, his 2388 does about 75% of the work, this is a first year STS and has had more updates and repairs than imaginable. Hopefully Deere has gotten most of the bugs out of the STS.

Air and liquid machines are very well monitored to prevent overheating. Unfortunatly it is not logged somewhere to look at history. We had excellent luck with air cooled machines staying clean and cool in the hottest driest weather. At times the radiator machines were needing a good blow twice a day when air cooled machines kept sailing around the field. Some guys don't open up panels on air cooled but once a year if that. I would of course recommend checking engine often to see nothing is plugging up in the conditions you are in. Number one is to monitor engine for plugging and if it is hard to keep clean you need to check rotary screen for proper sealing or check intake for spots that chaff can leak in. Same holds true for the liquid machines if radiator is plugging prematurely. Up to this season we have lost a piston in two V8s and that is out of a heck of a pile of engines. Piston was replaced without removing engine and would be questionable if it cost more than pulling liquid engine to replace a piston. I think the main reason we have ever lost a piston in a liquid or air cooled is operator put machine to work without a warm up period. I would recommend pulling injectors on air cooled every 1000 hours or soon after. I would check valve clearance every 500 hours or less to be sure they are maintaining clearance. When covers are off top of engine for injectors be sure all air passages are cleaned completly. My experience is Allis, Deutz, Cummins, and other diesels are all about as good as they are treated. If you could take the best points from all them and create a hybrid and then have a controler that prevented abuse or operation when not maintained we would have something. Some of the electronics on these engines today are getting close to this.

Is temp running higher than it used toIJ Does it take oil after fresh oil changeIJ Try another brand of oil for your oil could be vaporizing at temp that oil runs at. That engine is a six cylinder inline version of the V8s in the combines. Other than injectors, fuel pump, and cooling blower we have never pulled one of these engines apart and at least one is over 10,000 hours. We have not had to watch valve clearance nearly as close on the tractors, maybe because air intake is much cooler. Good luck in whatever you find.

Where could I find them take out engines if I should need oneIJ Who converted them to liquidIJ