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    Cat 345DL vs. Hitachi ZX450LC3

    As an owner over 65 item of earth-moving equipment and predominately CAT i would say when it comes to excavators i would have to forget my pride and say the Hitachi ZX 450 LC3 any day ........Its easy to fall in love with the name and say nothing will beat it but when your responsible for the...
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    poclain sc150 case equilivant

    Country WA
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    poclain sc150 case equilivant

    Some times when the case drain filter has had its use by date (Clogged) it will cause back pressure thus causing it to leak past the vi-ton seal into the F/Drv and the other is piston bypass creating to much pressure within the motor housing and and and.....bearing wear/preload, use a small...
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    poclain sc150 case equilivant

    Well the i presume its leaking at the duo and not the the track motor housing so ......yes remove the track, you may be able to drop it of the idler with out splitting the track. Is the final drive filling with hyd. oil? or are you losing gear oil? Also there were for memory two different...
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    poclain sc150 case equilivant

    I would say its a sc 150 1972-1974 model, the one below this was a gc 120 single lift ram with the cab was on the right hand side, the model above this was a rc 200 what a beast it would dig in the hardest ground During in the 70's and 80's i worked as a mechanic on all of their models in...
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    digging over drive motors

    Now it would show my age if i said i learnt on a RC 200, GC 120 , LC80 and small TSC Poclain........ Memories Now one of the main reasons for not digging over the track motors was that the track drive motor were exposed on the inside of the track frames an were subject to being knocked of...
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    Advice on buying a Daewoo

    kneelo you well spend a lot of time on your kneelo's if you go ahead with this, Ive owned one of this and it was useless from day one and sold it after many components failures. Ive owned nearly all the makes of excavators and there are some that cheaper to own than others particularly those...
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