Sure am. Been busier than hell. I think the worst of it is over.
Tim’s payloader and generator BS thread
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damn good to hear, was startin to wonder.
$1000 radiator and over 1 year layer, I got this excavator running again. I had planned on puting it back together last fall but was sick with china flue/pnumonia. It is a bit of a rubic's cube to get that radiator out and back in. The tracks need pins and bushings. Cylinder needs repacking. Hoods needs fiberglass repairs. And on and on...
Got the cylinder re-packed. Working on getting the tracks off. I'm using a ball hoint press. Its actually working.
I've been searching for track pins and bushings and running into a wall. Its an oddball size, no one wants to sell pins and bushings anymore. They'd rather sell the the whole assembly. I have posted rfq's(request for quote) with chicom manufacturers on alibaba. Anyone have any experience buying stuff through alibaba?
i gotta bring home the barko and pull a stick cylinder..........big heavy sob. i thought i had it figured out to drive in a 2" stock while driving out the pin so it can old the other cylinder, but i measured and they are all 2.5" dont think i have any stock that big. pita.
I have once and it was a smooth successful transaction. Plastic grille for an '06 Toyota 4Runner at 1/3 the cost of buying the same product stateside marked up.
friend has an old michigan 35AWS he said he might scrap...........its clean if i remember right.............i may have a problem Tim. i dont need it......
No but I learned it's almost never worth fucking with vs new chains. Save the pads and cut the old chains with the torch. By the time you get tooled up and figure out the labor/damage to your sanity cost, you're way better off to just buy chi com undercarriage and I was working in a shop with lots of help and every tool imaginable
I don't need 2, 11k lb wheel loaders but I use them.
I've decided to try replacing pins and bushings. These are small pins, only 7/8". I'm hopeful that I can handle it. New chains in the US are $3k. Pins, bushings and new sprockets are looking to be $1k from china. That is if I don't get screwed buying from china. I'll know if the track press will werk in a few days, when my mag drill arrives. I'll bolt down the angle plates. If it works, I'll order the stuff from cgina. If not, then new chains from TX.
Idlers, recoil springs and tensioner are where you can get into a ton of cash right quick so look at that stuff good and hope you don't got a busted spring
i looked it up, the 35 is around 14,000 with a turning radius of 16'. dik the turn radius of the allis but shes more like 20,000. its so cold natured, its a pain to get it running just to use 5min. idk.........if i could buy the 35 for 6-700 and put liner kits in it, it would be nice around the yard. a bit small for any serious log loading. eye prolly should buy nothing but a block heater for the allis lol.
The rollers and idlers look good. I didn't think to take a look at those tensioners. The drive sprockets look good enough but china has quoted only $45 each for new.
We used to get the pins and bushings turned on combine tracks.
I was originally hoping the turn the pins and bushings. These are too badly worn. I spoke with a local company that does it. He said that they never turn the pins and bushings on excavator tracks. I'm not sure why. I've noticed that the tracks and undercarriage on excavators is not heavy duty as a crawler.
I use my smallest wheel loader the most. Usually for less than 5 minutes.
I didn't know if anyone did it now. It was in the 70's and early 80's when we had it done.