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    oil filter choices D4H cat 3204

    I would stick. With the cat filter. I found that cat prices beet Napa in my area
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    The red tape in owning a Semi Tractor...... Insurance?

    you should not have to do a log book within 50 or 100 miles of your home base. with farm plates alot of that stuff is not necessary. im oregon may not be the same california
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    Mulching Information

    keep the motor compartment blown out several times a day, seen to many go up in smoke from trash on the manifold. go with the Cat 299, get it with steel tracks if you are going to do only mulching, stumps and rocks are hard on rubber tracks
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    Rubber tracks on a Dozer?

    another option is to put 1/2 flat bar on its side in the concrete floor so the edge is level with the top of the floor about 18 inches apart . that is what Caterpillar had at the crawler tractor plant so when the machines came off of the line and out to the yard it would not eat the concrete .
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    Rubber tracks on a Dozer?

    like said before, when pushing silage i always left about 6 inches on the pad and it never scratched the pad ,
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    cat d5b starting problems

    sounds like your shut off selinoid may not be working
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    D11 steering clutch issues

    sounds like your steering clutches are going out
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    tips for Running small dozers?

    angle the blade all the way to 1 side or the other it will cut a flat, i do it on may cat d5h xl and it works good
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    Can someone explain this

    my guess is that they stole the good tracks off of it and thru some junk on it, i have seen this a few times on cats at auctions where pins and bushings and sprockets and rollers are dragging in strange places.
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    Help: Driveway / Basement / Leveling a hill

    i agree with the advice to hire someone , if you over dig any of it ,it will have to be back filled and compacted to meet inspection
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    Tie downs who needs stinkin tie downs

    maddog dont give the idiots any ideas , or we will paymore
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    D11N Air Conditioning

    try Classic car parts, they have complete after market systems for around 1200.00 dollars
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    Career Change at 30 Years Old + Introduction

    like someone said buy an old cat or something and restore it, and see if that is what you want to do . i use to love wrenching, i still restore stuff but i have gotten to old and my body has taken a beating for it ,to work that hard all of the time and the fun went out of it. i work full time in...
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    TD 25c project

    you might just cut your loses, this thing sounds like a money pit. dont know what you paid but you could end up putting more money in it than just junking it and starting out on a machine you know something about. (just my 2 cents)
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    JD 850J How to rebuild blade

    like has been said re skin it , if you are going to keep pushing scrappers i would put an additional 4 foot wide piece 1/2 in. thick in the center to keep from doing it again .
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