mudmuckgrease
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My neighbor and I just bought an Oliver OC-3 crawler that has been sitting for a few years. It is equipped with backhoe and it runs from a Hercules four piston gas engine. We got it to start while cold, but when it warms up the engine dies and it refuses to restart until it completely cools down. During the time it does run, we were able to ascertain that the hydraulics work, that it moves forward and it turns right. It has'nt run long enough to try the left turn yet but we really need it to run long enough to get us to the place where we can load it onto a trailer. I am hoping to get some advice as to how to deal with this cold running, warm stalling engine. It has a Zenith carburetor and I took it apart to clean. It looked fairly clean to start with. We put new plugs and wires in it and I checked for spark which it has, so I am stumped. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.