scag wildcat hydraulic pump made in china

The Wildcat incorporates the qualities that helped to frame Scag’s impeccable reputation in the lawn and garden industry. Qualities like durability, comfort, power, and a superior cutting performance.

The Wildcat frame is solidly built with heavy-duty tubular steel giving the mower a strong foundation for years of dependable service. Tri-Plate steel makes the top of the Velocity Plus cutter deck nearly ½ inch thick. Quality bearings, all steel pulleys and debris guards on pulley bearings guarantee long dependable service for the idler pulley system.

The Wildcat is powered by either a Kohler or Kawasaki engine ranging from 25 to 27 HP delivering a ground speed up to 10 mph forward and 4.5 mph reverse. The large 8 gallon fuel capacity allows you to cut all day without refilling. Dual 10cc pumps and high torque cast iron wheel motors ensure dependable, reliable power. A heavy-duty Ogura GT3.5 blade clutch has 250 ft. lbs. of holding strength. The cutter deck and transmission drive system have all-steel pulleys.

Scag’s Velocity Plus deck delivers unsurpassed cutting performance even when operated at speeds up to 10 mph. The Velocity Plus deck tops are built with 3 layers of high strength steel for a total thickness of nearly ½” (.485”) thick. Airflow can be adjusted for optimum performance with the patented Custom-Cut Baffle. Scag’s heavy-duty blade spindle shaft is made of a high strength, hardened steel alloy with 1 1/8” diameter. An extra-large discharge opening maximizes the dispersal of grass clippings.

When it comes to servicing your Wildcat, use only OEM replacement parts for optimum quality and fit. ScagOEMParts.com has a simple online parts lookup tool to search for parts quickly.

In this article I would like to throw in my modest opinion about non-original spare parts - a frequent discussion topic among folks involved in the business of hydraulic pump and motor overhauling.

Although workshops can"t repair pumps without spare parts, they can choose where to buy the spares, and this choice is the key factor that defines how much money they make and how much "overhauling quality" they deliver. With so many suppliers and resellers of non-genuine replacement parts for hydraulic pumps and motors popping up every day, choosing the right "economic" supplier has become all but an easy task involving trial and error overhauls, pissed-off mechanics, pissed-off customers and even forever lost contracts and clients.

A mechanic, for example, being the person who shoves the parts into them pumps and motors, will always prefer genuine replacement parts over any aftermarket ones for one simple reason - they are easy to work with, they always fit and require no "finishing touches" - ergo his work is faster and simpler. Genuine parts last long and are hardly ever faulty, which makes the testing and adjustment procedures safer and reduces the risk of having to re-open overhauled units to a minimum. A mechanic doesn"t care about how much they cost because he"s not the one paying for them.

The truth lies, as always, in the golden middle, and I, personally, came to the conclusion that although most of the times you do get what you pay for, this doesn"t mean that you can"t get a bargain for a penny every once in a while, so a sound overhauler keeps his eyes and mind open and uses both genuine and aftermarket parts in a combination defined by his trial an error experience and the pump/motor application demands. This approach is sound because even in pre-recession years there were hydraulic equipment owners who actually preferred aftermarket to genuine in the pursuit of cutting down overhaul expenses. So, some clients will want the genuine quality, and some will want the lower price - and in order to satisfy both you, naturally, have to be able to serve both, but - if your goal is to deliver quality repairs, aftermarket part suppliers should be chosen with a cool head and on the basis of quality, not price!

OK, you say, so I am a hydraulic equipment owner, and I"ve got this excavator pump to repair, how do I know if I am going to be scammed with them Chinese spares? Well, there is no simple answer to this question...There is an opinion that if an overhaul is backed up by warranty than you"re on the safe side, no matter what parts were used - this, unfortunately, is not entirely true, because if you"re the unlucky hydraulic pump owner caught in the "error" stage of the new supplier trial and error validation process, you can get two different answers and two very different bills depending on how honest the company you are dealing with is. An honest workshop will admit their fault and try to correct the mistake as fast as they can, and if you are not the first-time customer you might even get the - "sorry about that, dude, the parts"re all **cked up..." confession, while a less candid workshop will give you the standard "commission errors committed by non-qualified personnel plus hard particle contamination in conjunction with the inappropriate oil temperature and deficient system design" excuse, and make you pay for their poor part supplier choice. So I"d say that warranty alone isn"t a guarantee, and would cast my vote for warranty combined with transparency - if a workshop has good experience with their non-genuine spare parts supplier - they won"t be ashamed to admit that the parts are not original.

Now, a separate word must be said about Chinese suppliers of spare parts for hydraulic pumps and motors. There are hundreds of companies in China that will sell you spare parts for almost any existing brand, with the quality ranging from superb to unacceptable and even ridiculously unacceptable. However with most suppliers (and especially resellers) the fact that you have received a batch of supreme quality spares doesn"t guarantee that you will get the same quality in the next batch. So if you ever decide to "go oriental" - be prepared for nasty surprises! (At least that was the situation at the moment of writing - December 2011).

My calling is more technical than commercial, therefore I am mainly interested in the quality of the spares rather than their price or where they come from - so please, don"t bother asking me for a list of "unofficially approved" Chinese suppliers of cheap yet extremely high quality spare parts for hydraulic pumps and motors - I won"t provide it because I frankly don"t have it! We do use some aftermarket spares from China, we did have our share of mishaps and disappointments with Chinese made parts, and our initial "Hurrays" got eventually replaced by "Boos" for most of them. Since our policy has always been to never let a client pay for a breakdown caused by a low quality part, a couple of lessons "learned the hard way" taught us that in most cases (not all, though) using Chinese spares in hydraulic pumps and motors is like using bathroom soap for filling cakes - looks and smells nice, yet still tastes like crap...

Replacement Hydro Pumps for your Scag Mowers. Hydro pumps are known as the world leader in the lawn and garden industry. This pump has a 6 month parts and labor warranty from date of Professional Installation. Shown in the chart below are the Hydro Gear.

When ordering and replacing your hydro pump always replace the wheel motor if equipped and lines, flush the tanks and install a new oil filter. Not doing so could cause the new hydro pump to fail due to contamination in the system.