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    Spring/summer works

    Well I would like to start of with how much I enjoyed the winter works thread, lot's of pics and good reading, hoping we can continue with this Spring/Summer thread, I have one heck of a pile of work to do to my roads with the soft mild winter, pretty much a wrap for Winter works, will be...
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    Winter Works

    Well guy's its that time of year again, we are starting to put the plow gear on the equipment now, working on my 150AWD getting things put back on for snow removal, wing tower and wing going on next week, our winter works starts on Dec 4, my machine has worked great all summer and fall, looking...
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    Storm

    Well it looks like a hurricane is going to hit my area tonight, major winds and rain, up to 10 inches of rain coming, roads and bridges will have major washouts if not completely washed away, my roads were in such good shape to, wind will be gusting to over 100mph so lots of tree's down and no...
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    Just some info

    my computer did a upgrade lately and I had to log back in to this forum, and for the life of me I could not remember my password, My memory is good but desperate short, I sent a password reset request to the forum and they said they sent a email to me with instructions to do the reset, I never...
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    NEW Cat 150 AWD

    Hello everyone, here is my new ride, Cat 150 AWD, replaced my 140H.
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    140 H Troubles

    Hello everyone, Well the trouble is not with our 140m this time its with my baby the 140H, I do not operate my baby in the winter I move to the 140m for winter works, anyway the operator is saying when our 140H is going up a hill the RPM stays at around 1800 but the machine slows to a crawl...
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    140H SOS

    Hi everyone, I received some bad news today in regards to my 140H machine I run in the spring summer and fall, She is my baby and have been on her sense new, the oil report from SOS came back bad for my engine from Cat, the engine has 13000+ hrs on her and its the 3176 C11, the sample showed...
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    New 12m3

    Went to a familiarizing on a new 12m3 today in one of our sister shops, wanted to see the new tech that was available on the new stuff, one thing that Cat is saying now is to grease the circle and gear, we were told before not to grease or at least dry graphite spray if anything, articulation...
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    140K

    Going to look at a new 140k at our sister shop a week from Monday, Cat will be there to answer some questions and provide a demo on the machine, I was under the impression that the K series was not available in north America because of emissions, some of the specs I heard is it has the ass end...
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    140H cab parts?

    Hi everyone, just wondering is there such a place you can get aftermarket parts for a 140H cab, i'm looking for left and right doors, mine are getting rusty and Cat wants $2800 just for the door skin each, I thought that was kinda steep, anyone have any idea's? thanks for any info
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    Grader operator shot at

    A buddy of mine told me about a grader operator doing snow removal in a John Deere grader was shot at by some guy with road rage in Grand Prairie Alberta, there's pictures of the grader on face book, I hope the operator is ok, what is this world coming to.
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    Moldboard crack

    I tried searching through some threads looking for anyone having problems with their moldboards cracking on their Cat m series graders, our sister shop has a year old 12m-2 Cat and the moldboard has cracked along the bottom almost the full length of the moldboard just above the bolt holes for...
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    140m follow up

    Hello everyone, I decided to give you all a update on our 140 m that we have had lots of issues with, this season after addressing most of the issues we have had with our 140m the machine worked not to bad this season with a bit of down time, we had to replace the HEUI pump again where the one...
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    Here we go again 140M DOWN

    Hello everyone, Well last fall we took delivery of a brand new 140m for our sister shop, the other day after getting finished her third pm the operator was on his way to one of his roads on his route to be graded and he noticed a red engine alarm and a low oil pressure warning on the display he...
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    Tire problems

    Happy holidays everyone, I am having some trouble keeping tires on the rims this is about the 9th tire that has come off in the past month, they seem to break the seal and go flat and its not the same one all the time, I'm running 55psi in the tires and been checking making sure none are low...
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    140m down again

    Hello everyone, well we have a new wiring harness coming to solve any more issues with wires breaking, but another issue has come up, this time the engine would not build boost up all the way and we are not getting full power, we have found a leak in our air to air, the top of the air to air has...
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    140m broken wires

    Hello everyone, problems with our 140m again, this time the machine suddenly took to flashing lights on the dash followed by shutting down, turns out that it was broken wires in the wiring harness, the cat man bypass the broken wires with new wires, I know some where on this forum I read...
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    140h diff lock troubles

    Hello all, I am experiencing some troubles with the diff lock on my machine 140h, first thing I noticed was a fuse blown on my diff lock switch, which never happened before, when I backed out of the shop and slightly turned, the rear of the machine started to skip jump on loose gravel like it...
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    140m down again

    Hello everyone, having some problems with our 140m, over the course of the summer we have encountered quite a bit of down time with this machine countless transmission troubles, steering malfunctions, right side articulating ram failure, than broke and pushed up into the engine cracked oil pan...
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    Ditching

    Hello everyone, I thought I would start this new thread on ditching to see if anybody is at this kind of work now, would be nice to see some before and after pictures especially of the older hands work, and please give lots of tips, this is one my favorite things to do this time of year when its...
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