The intent of this thread is to provide a single point of reference for owners of old Fiat dozers.
There's quite a few of these dozers still out there, hard at work. There's also quite a lot of hard won knowledge out there.
The idea is to try to get some of this knowledge recorded in the one place, rather than locked away in the heads of the various owners and mechanics.
If you have had to repair or modify a 70CI, please record your story for posterity. Images are nice, but not compulsory.
If you have a 70CI story, broken, bogged, or just having fun, please, let's have it. Images are nice, and compulsory!
If you have a question about fixing a 70CI, fire away. The only thing I ask is that you take the trouble to tell us how it worked out. Nothing worse than spending a heap of time helping someone with a problem and never hearing the end of the story.:beatsme
To set the general tone, here's some images of my trusty 70CI (says AD7, still a 70CI) solving a small problem of a rock sticking out of the ground right in front of a gateway. All our rocks around here are floaters and I had a theory that if a rock stuck out of the ground, it could be dug out. Unfortunately the images start near the end of the story, about five hours after the start, and don't show the forty or so other large rocks that were dug out along the way. The image before I started would have shown basically flat ground with a rock, about 12" x 16" and sticking 10" up, just in the way every time you went through the gate. I proved my point, it stuck out and it was dug out, but that was the last time I expressed that theory!
Mind you, it was also the last time I had to dodge that rock when I went into the paddock.
There's quite a few of these dozers still out there, hard at work. There's also quite a lot of hard won knowledge out there.
The idea is to try to get some of this knowledge recorded in the one place, rather than locked away in the heads of the various owners and mechanics.
If you have had to repair or modify a 70CI, please record your story for posterity. Images are nice, but not compulsory.
If you have a 70CI story, broken, bogged, or just having fun, please, let's have it. Images are nice, and compulsory!
If you have a question about fixing a 70CI, fire away. The only thing I ask is that you take the trouble to tell us how it worked out. Nothing worse than spending a heap of time helping someone with a problem and never hearing the end of the story.:beatsme
To set the general tone, here's some images of my trusty 70CI (says AD7, still a 70CI) solving a small problem of a rock sticking out of the ground right in front of a gateway. All our rocks around here are floaters and I had a theory that if a rock stuck out of the ground, it could be dug out. Unfortunately the images start near the end of the story, about five hours after the start, and don't show the forty or so other large rocks that were dug out along the way. The image before I started would have shown basically flat ground with a rock, about 12" x 16" and sticking 10" up, just in the way every time you went through the gate. I proved my point, it stuck out and it was dug out, but that was the last time I expressed that theory!
Mind you, it was also the last time I had to dodge that rock when I went into the paddock.