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    sunday drive in Iowa

    The grey silverado in mine. The cat equipment a find on a hilltop in eastern Iowa
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    Cat D8 Engine Problem

    I agree this should be investigated I have seen engine failures caused by simple odd things 1 thing I have seen was the oil in barrels mismarked by supplier
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    Cat 336DL Long Reach excavator catastrophic hydraulic failure

    I have seen failures like this.Further anaylis proved the problem occured due to external forces such as a missing stop ore a miswelded stop ethe wrong bore placement and such this cause internal damage not conntamination as first thought I would look for interferenc deflecting the cyl...
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    D6C won't track straight

    The final drives have used gears in 1 side out of maybe a 955l loader just a thought good luck BIG D
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    cat d6c water pressure guage

    Mainy older Cat dozers used a matching set of engine temp gauges both water pressure and coolanr tempature they were color coded the theory was if you were operating at a certain color pressue range then it was safe to run the engine in the same color coded temp range the reason this works is 1...
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    BELAZ 450 ton dump truck specifications released along with a model of the truck!!!

    With the rising price of fuel it doest make sense to add over 100 tons of weight to haul 50 tons of payload thanks BIG D
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    Axe Men beyond belief

    I cant imagine what the producer of this show is thinking. The latest shows are filled with staged idiotic things such as dropping a tree on a employees car using old unsafe cables just plain stuff that belongs on the Jack Ass show. As long as I am venting the disrepect of fellow employees and...
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    Terex ta 27 broke zf transmission

    I due not know this transmission . but past experience with John Deere products raises this question is the transmission being driven by the drive wheels such as over speeding by putting it it neutral when loaded going down a steep hill this type of action causes trans failure and is always...
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    D3B LGP on fresh water lake ice-tomorrow!

    ice dozing Hello last winter the small contractor my cousin workks for got a job repairing shoreline in the area of th madison campus of the university of wisc they thought the ice thick enough for a 763 bobcat about the third time out on the ice the bobcat went through they pulled it our with...
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    Caterpillar pedal tractor

    Hi to all Back around 1950 Cat had a toy pedal tractor it also came with a small gasoline engine and a version that was battery powered I am interested in finding out more about these toys . They were featured in toy farmer magazine several yrs ago These were a actual track machine and sold...
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    Plowing in the Arctic

    artic plowing MY question about the snow blower it looks like maybe its a fendt tractor our county highway dept. leases a fendt and snowblower they say it works great thanks the BIG D
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    Problem with a Cat 3306 in a 980B loader

    prechamber seals I agree you have a flow problem probably coolers . Just food for thought but flushing a severly dirty cooling system bteaks large debree loose and actually makes the cooling ptoblem worse I have seen customers try flushing cooling system plug the top of the rad with debree...
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    Suction Breaker

    welding cables I have never heard of the welder being used. But I have of using injected air to break the suction effect the folks that have used it inject air atround the stuck machine in several areas over several hrs thanks BIG D
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    Agco Allis once Allis Chalmers

    allis The engines were used in KWS Jimmys and Freightliners.A close friend of mine just retired from a hydro electric plant that still had Allis generators in use. the were close to 100 yrs old. He use too get calls from all over the midwest to seek advise as how to repair them so there must...
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    Agco Allis once Allis Chalmers

    Big al this isnt related to agriculture . Allis Chalmers had a over the road truck engines back around 1970 it in the high hp. version had 450 hp. back when first introduced surpassed Cats 1673 and even the 1693ta at 425 hp. they where actually placed in trucks I dont know the engine specs...
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