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Sounds like you are on track. Just watch your hoses for awhile. Or, pull an easy to access hose and look inside. If the epdm material isn’t soft and gooey, they are probably good.For cleaning, automatic dish washer detergent is popular because it doesn’t foam up like liquid dish detergent does. Caterpillar, for years, has recommended Cascade.The good stuff in dish detergent has been banned. The Obama Admin EPA did that. Sodium Tripolyphosphate (TSP).Here is the trick, you can still purchase Cascade Professional Fryer Boil Out. It’s supposed to be the same Cascade formula you could purchase at the grocery store.That’s what I use. My magic formula. 1/2 cup for a 15 liter engine. Your mileage may vary.

I would not sweat those hoses unless they appear bad. At 30 years they probably don't look all that hot though.LOL@Coaldustbeat me to it.

Should be a Cummins engine even though Case calls them by a different model

Dave Neubert said:Should be a Cummins engine even though Case calls them by a different modelClick to expand...Well, I I wasn't 100% sure, since it absolutely looked like a Cummins, and even the part numbers were similar, but since the gasket was the major problem to find, and through bitter personal experience, I nowadays always go with new gaskets (at least in critical areas,) I sucked it up and waited a month or so. But thanks for confirming my suspicion, and next time I need parts, I'll try "generic Cummins".

skyking1 said:I would not sweat those hoses unless they appear bad. At 30 years they probably don't look all that hot though.LOL@Coaldustbeat me to it.Click to expand...Well, guess what part I was able to find when the water pump went out last spring? Yep, when I bought the water pump, the place I bought that had both hoses, so I replaced them at the same time, (since I had to replace the coolant, what the heck?) Since that was a month after replacing the fan belt (which was a much more major operation than I would have suspected), I had already learned that if you have to take things apart to replace a simple wear part, replace any other "wear parts" that require the same disassembly.

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