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    Brush Rake for excavator?

    I'm looking to buy a brush rake for my cat 308, are JMA a good choice? what kind of steel do they use in the manufacture. Most of the rake I'm looking at say what type steel they are made of JMA say high quality steel
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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

    My internet has been out since about 15 mins before the super bowl, but it does seem to work fine, and I'm going to leave it be
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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

    Well Shane I was able to work on my excavator today. Did what you showed me, things are working excellent. Thank you so much
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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

    Thank you
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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

    Can you send me a little diagram? Or should I just start over, hook them all back up then find the 6 hoses one by one?
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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

    So you have totally by-passed the manifold?
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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

    Never did get it fixed right,winter hit. I bought the machine to use on my property,so it will sit till spring. I'm sure something came apart in the hydraulic system and is still floating around.
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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

    All 7 lines have be bypassed from the manifold, everything works,but now as the boom is raised the stick wants to creep out
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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

    Well today There are 7 hydraulic lines hooked to a manifold, and I was attempting to bypass the manifold. I changed the filters, but I only had enough fittings to bypass 3 lines, now the boom is working, I have more fitting on order hope to get them tomorrow.....so we will see. Would still like...
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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

    To much rain today, not a nice day to go lay under the machine
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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

    This is what I have, the read out comes in handy when it was working, but it is metric,it controlled the depth of cut. The other pictures are what we believe are the valves that are controlled by the DRO, As you can see I'm thinking about bypassing the entire system unless I can get it to...
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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

    I can't find anything broken
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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

    Yes it is a gray market machine, but was told at the cat dealer no problem with parts. My friend came by today, looked things over. there is a little computer thing on the right hand side of the seat, where a person can program in where ya want the boom to stop. He said that is the problem. we...
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    Cat 308 Boom will not move

    I will try it again this morning, the bucket is on the ground and the boom is about a 1/4 of the way down. The boom, extend and thumb do not work. No one has worked on the machine got in it the other day raised the boom it went up and hasn't worked since I have a friend coming over Sunday to...
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