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    Dual Fuel Solenoid or VHP Solenoid on Cat 3306 engine.

    I'm working on our 970F Material Handler and its the first time I've been around a dual horsepower solenoid. I read the book and it briefly explains its purpose and how it works and I understand it fine. The operator was complaining of spitting and sputtering and "snatching" (mind you he sounds...
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    The $500,000.00 question.

    So did the 500000 question get answered? I'll put in my .02...granted its a factory weld and all but...would rapid cooling ie..bucket of water or getting the rod to hot when welding could have caused this?
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    Need advice is it to cold to work in 25degree weather,bout to freeze!

    LOL well if he's in Florida and it got down to 25 then that would be a hell of a shock to wake up to first thing in the morning. When I was a kid I went hunting in the mountains of Maryland in April one time....Left the house 70 degrees....woke up the next morning in the cabin...14 degrees...
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    Transporting the dead

    We've got a fork lift that'll pick up our D8Ns and carry them around like you carry a dinner plate :)
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    air filter caught on fire

    Sledge, wonder if you might have a hole rotted through the housing of the air filter? Then like everybody else said trash laying on the exhaust manifold got hot, ignited and sucked up into the filter?
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    W900A front axle brakes??

    Because that's where all the weight is. I forgot to mention this truck isn't a work truck so it bobtails most of the time. I bought it as a project to fix up. Now and then a friend of mine works for a warehouse and I'll help him out jockeying a few trailers around the yard for him.
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    W900A front axle brakes??

    I'm gonna throw this out here just to see what everybody comes up with. I pretty much already know what is going to be cheaper more easy and a whole lot faster: Is there a company that sells a kit to add brakes to an axle that never had brakes at all? I'm talking about my W900A...it came from...
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    Hydraulic Brakes on Cat 970F

    I couldnt really tell you how long they were on there Nige. I work for a shipping terminal that stock piles salt and other materials so nothing really lasts to long in that environment. But both hoses didn't really blow out like you would expect from a larger line, one kinda broke some of the...
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    Cat soil compactor cleaner bars

    Cmark where I used to work we had a template made for a automated torch and we made our own out of hardened steel. You cant really hard face them because it eliminates the flat surfaces to keep the cleaner tight. If you want to try to hardface maybe the first 3 inches of the ends it might give...
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    some work pictures

    CM I dropped the transmission belly pan on a 953B once not expecting it to have as much dirt as it did I damn near broke my arm. The dirt was clear up to the top of the charge pump for the drive pumps.
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    Hydraulic Brakes on Cat 970F

    Two weeks ago we had a line blow going from the accumulator charging valve to the brake valve. No problem got the line off, made one up and everything was fine. Last friday got a call saying another hydraulic leak. Get out to the maching and find that there's another leak right near the...
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    frozen tracks

    Pretty Much the same idea Watglen. Keep the tracks clean even if you have to clean them 3-4 times a day. I know it sounds like a lot to do but look at it like this...would you rather clean up a lil bit every few hours or clean a lot at the end of the day? If you have access to some logs you can...
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    Filling the differentials on a Cat 1055 telehandler.

    So today I got pulled away from what I was doing....( re-organizing the mechanic container boxes after a 5 mile ride.....big big big mess :Banghead). I rode over to where the lube man was to see if I could figure out where you put the oil back in the differentials at. The only plugs I found...
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    Help! Terex S24 Hydraulic Over Heating

    Could be relief valve. Could be hyd cooler plugged up with leaves and dirt and other stuff....Have you changed filters?
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    955l will not turn over

    I had to change one on a 931B one time. Loader arms down...ontop of a 3 inch sheet of ice.....right outside the shop doors.....with nothing else in the shop to shove it in the shop.<<<<No fun was had there either.
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    Almost wiped out in my own shop -

    I had just gotten done putting on an undercarriage to a old D7G. Tightened up the master link bolts with a 3/4 drive air gun till they stopped moving. Ran the machine outside to fill it up with fuel at the dock and we always put a cheater bar on the master links just for a little bit of extra...
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    classic truck question

    DZLNUT, I just got finished doing the same thing you want to do and didnt have any problems. I got my insurance through Gulfway out of Florida, which uses Travelers Ins. Company. I pay 200 a year, you get unlimited mileage/distance, truck does not have to be garaged or covered. The truck can't...
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    How not to set a hot tub

    I'm by far not a crane operator...in fact I've only really started to be around cranes moving them ( a lot...seems like they're made of velcro sometimes lol) in the past year or so. I've ran a RT crane putting boom sections in and lifting counterweights off and on but doesnt it seem obvious that...
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    Anyone know how to bypass TCU?

    About what year is it Cats4me? We had 2 TA27 off roads 02-03 model years and one of them loved engine ECMs....seemed like every 2 months to the day it would eat a ECM. The dealer could never figure it out.
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    2002 d5g losing fan belts

    Wat, I know its kinda hard to check but it's possible that your crank balancer is bad if it has one. Had that problem a few years back...re packed the fan bearings, replaced the tensioner checked everything else that was belt driven and it still threw belts. Even went so far as to measure end...
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