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Overload of the Day
What about aircraft? Every crashed aircraft is a Cessna!! :D -
Memories for us old truckers
Southern Transport No 2, hauling water pipes for the Millstream-Dampier-Karratha water supply project, in N.W. Western Australia, 1969. NMP. I think someone snapped this photo while it's in a glass frame, hence the reflections of the cupboard! The trailer is probably a 38 foot trailer, pretty... -
Do I have a DI engine or a PC engine on my D3?
Your tractor was built in 1976 and should be PC. Photos of the top of the engine showing the fuel injector lines will soon show whether it's PC or DI. The precombustion chambers are quite obvious. Of course, there's every chance the engine has been swapped out for a different model of engine... -
Cat D6C track problems
Interchangeable models with the 76A are 73A (Australian-built), 83A (U.K built) and 96A (Japanese built). All these tractors are virtually identical, just built in different countries. There are small differences, such as the Japanese tractors originally used Nippon-Denso or Mitsubishi... -
Cat D6C track problems
The 76A D6C is not rare, it was a very popular tractor, and Cat built over 6000 of them in Peoria. The problem with the Cat service manuals is that they comprise a number of separate books - Specifications, Assembly and Disassembly, and sections for each major component area. But sellers pull... -
My D6D
Farm prices seem to be ballistic Australia-wide. I don't know where the money is coming from, it must surely be a lot of corporate money? In the wheatbelt region of the Great Southern in W.A., where I did earthmoving contracting from the mid-60's to the mid-80's, a former client has just sold... -
Giving warranty on used equipment
Don't bet on it. Used transformer welders here are only worth scrap copper value today. An inverter welder runs cooler, is much lighter, has a better duty cycle, can run higher amperage, and has no more durability issues than a transformer welder.- OzDozer
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- Forum: General Industry Questions
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Memories for us old truckers
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Giving warranty on used equipment
You don't even get warranty on NEW electrical items, if you only just opened the box and looked at it, and realised it's the wrong part!!- OzDozer
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- Forum: General Industry Questions
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Cat D6C track problems
That's not only a steep learning curve you're staring at, it's going to hurt your wallet, big-time. Not only the outer hub major repair, but the final drive needs to come apart, and the dead axle will have to be pulled as well, to rebuild that destroyed thread - and it's entirely possible the... -
Giving warranty on used equipment
We have tail-light warranties, and concrete warranties here. When the buyers tail-lights are out of sight, the warranty expires - or the concrete warranty expires as soon as they leave the concrete driveway!- OzDozer
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- Forum: General Industry Questions
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Memories for us old truckers
It looks very suspiciously similar to a Chrysler LAD (Leyland-Albion-Dodge) cab - but I would suggest it's probably a "knock-off" of an LAD, perhaps built in Iran? - Turkey? - Pakistan? - Israel? - or maybe even India? https://www.pinterest.com.au/mk2guru/leyland-albion-dodge/ -
Giving warranty on used equipment
Definitely NO. You don't want to carry the risk of used equipment being operated by idiots you don't know, doing things they should never do with it. In other words, you have no control over how the item is going be used or abused, so you don't offer warranty on the item - unless you've got a...- OzDozer
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- Forum: General Industry Questions
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Cat D6C track problems
The track frame alignment with the sprocket is pretty critical. With the track separated and laid out, you use a stringline along the top of the sprocket, carrier rollers and idler to set the alignment of all three items. The track frame position can be altered by inserting or removing shims... -
Finger tip steering conversion kit for old caterpillar dozers
Re oldirt's post about the 13A and 14A D8's with "power assisted" steering levers - a company called Rivinius produced power-assist for the steering levers on these tractors - and Rivinius also produced an add-on power steering for the old "knucklebuster" Cat 12 graders. These Rivinius... -
Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.
A local company called Leightons had a fleet of 631 open bowl scrapers carrying out large-scale overburden removal from open-pit gold mines in the W.A. Goldfields in the mid-to-late 1980's. I can recall watching this fleet at work stripping the overburden on the Paddington Gold Mine, near Broad... -
new member with a d4d from the 60s direct drive with toolbar
CaptainB - The center bolt is there to hold the recoil spring at the correct length when the spring is being installed. It's backed off, and the nut secured with a lock, once the spring is installed. The bolt also ensures the spring doesn't pop out of its seat at the rear. Cat give a dimension... -
new member with a d4d from the 60s direct drive with toolbar
I've never had a tractor yet where the hoses between tractor chassis and blade, or track frame, weren't damaged in some way. Possibly the best setup was the tilt ram hoses that ran from track frame to blade on my D7F's, they were well protected with guards - but even then they had to be... -
Selling equipment
The scammers will call you, alright. They are cunning as the proverbial outhouse rats. I got scammed on a transport job. I needed some industrial gates and chain-mesh fencing rolls picked up from a location many hundreds of kms away. They were purchased at auction, and located in a Govt Dept...- OzDozer
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- Forum: General Industry Questions
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new member with a d4d from the 60s direct drive with toolbar
The hoses that are installed are not original, they're too long and very untidy. The original hoses simply curve in an arc over the track. You could re-route them, but it's a lot of work to do so, and somewhere, there still has to be a pair of flexible hoses crossing from tractor chassis to...