Lowlife
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Yep I'm still around and so is the warco. She built a 1/2 mile driveway. May as well call it a road and did it with few complaints. Cost 30k for materials so far, not 100% finished as we still need to cap it with some number 2 after home construction is done. It built a bridge as well. Total cost would have been almost 100k I am told. Have a total of 2k in grader. Had a leaking blade cylinder.
Any issues were mostly operator oriented. Parts are a thing of the past but luckily I haven't really broke anything. If anything major went, clutch, engine, etc I think I might try to keep the blade/circle, hydraulics etc and try to create a frankengrader. The engine is tired but starts and runs and the operator is slow so 2nd or 3rd gear are ok for the work I do. I overheated the motor and thought, well it was a good run. Let her cool down, fixed the leak and it came back stronger, now hits on all 6 cylinders and I run out of traction before power. Earlier in the year I was blowing smoke and an old farmer came by and said to and I quote " your cylinders are glazed from being to easy on it. Work her hard she'll come back". He was right. I'd do it all over again.
I did download a manual for iirc a 4d it's a military manual and is close enough. If you want an old grader then there is alot of stuff you will need to figure out, but it's not too difficult. There is a manual for my grader on ebay but last time I checked it was like 400.00 but at this point I've figured out most everything I needed to. Parts for the motor......forget about it, most e erything else so far can be figured out.
Any issues were mostly operator oriented. Parts are a thing of the past but luckily I haven't really broke anything. If anything major went, clutch, engine, etc I think I might try to keep the blade/circle, hydraulics etc and try to create a frankengrader. The engine is tired but starts and runs and the operator is slow so 2nd or 3rd gear are ok for the work I do. I overheated the motor and thought, well it was a good run. Let her cool down, fixed the leak and it came back stronger, now hits on all 6 cylinders and I run out of traction before power. Earlier in the year I was blowing smoke and an old farmer came by and said to and I quote " your cylinders are glazed from being to easy on it. Work her hard she'll come back". He was right. I'd do it all over again.
I did download a manual for iirc a 4d it's a military manual and is close enough. If you want an old grader then there is alot of stuff you will need to figure out, but it's not too difficult. There is a manual for my grader on ebay but last time I checked it was like 400.00 but at this point I've figured out most everything I needed to. Parts for the motor......forget about it, most e erything else so far can be figured out.
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