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Recent content by 56wrench

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    This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

    One of the problems around here is that all those marginal employees went to work in the oilpatch when they would take anybody with a pulse. Then the downturn came and they were the first to be laid off. Now they refuse to take a job that pays less, and are either still unemployed, living on...
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    This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

    I’m not saying that, just avoid hiring them for certain jobs other than janitors or something similar. They don’t seem to understand consequences. We used to have a neighbor kid like that
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    Had new hydraulic rods made

    If it is a single pass, they were better off not to machine it down
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    This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

    What some people don’t realize that a lot of employees nowadays have fetal alcohol syndrome and their brains are not ‘wired’ like a normal person’s. They can be hard to work with and train and get into trouble. There’s only so much you can do with them.
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    Case 580D Swing Cylinder Rebuild - Stuck Con Glands - Any tips?

    When the spanner type with the pins doesn’t work, i use an large OTC chain wrench with a snipe. It usually works but its tricky to get the chain to only grab the gland
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    Has anyone else heard this?

    An old trick for unobtainable ring gears was to remove them and if the damage was not too bad, just reinstall about 90 to 100 degrees from where the wear was if it was a good section of the ring gear. If flipping the ring gear, i used a Dremel to put the small chamfer on one side of the teeth...
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    WW2 ARMOURED CATERPILLAR DOZERS (D7A)

    Ya, very noisy and hot inside. Hard to imagine what that was like
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    WW2 ARMOURED CATERPILLAR DOZERS (D7A)

    I would have thought in 1944 it would have had a cable operated blade
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    Komatsu D57S-1 Head gasket seep

    If the seal lip on the new seal is located at the same depth as the original, installing it about 3mm deeper would work but first compare where the lip on the new seal is located. After a couple decades, it depends who made the seal and if it is exactly the same as the old one. The important...
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    Komatsu D57S-1 Head gasket seep

    This design negates the use of side seals on the main cap or a rear seal retainer like some engines use
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    Genuine VS Chinese parts

    I’d just like to point out a lot of OEM parts are made in China as well as worldwide.
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    D9D 18A Final Drive Pinion Flange

    Thats how i did it when i changed the upper pinion seals on my old 46a but i took the pinion/flange assemblies to a guy that had the tooling because i was to cheap to have him come all the way to my place just to press the flanges on. It only took him 15 minutes
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    This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

    Does my ‘old age’ memory qualify as amnesia?
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    Another old truck

    Definitely an IH. Easier to tell the difference between a K and KB in the small trucks due to the side extensions of the grille(or lack of)
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    D6 9U Fuel Issues

    Capsules are cheap. I would just replace them all
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