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    Advice on Common Problems Associated with Final Drives

    Noticed a couple of typos and omissions in our original piece - especially here "One of the main faults we find is that the customer is not changing in the final drive often enough – as a guide, you should be ensuring this is changed every 1000 hours" - it's the oil you should change in the...
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    Advice on Common Problems Associated with Final Drives

    You are very welcome - we hope that it will help people pin point common issues and hopefully save them money, which can only be a good thing!
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    Advice on Common Problems Associated with Final Drives

    Common problems associated with final drives are extensive, but there are some common faults which regularly occur, having some knowledge of these faults could help you to pinpoint a problem quickly and hopefully save you money on what can be a very expensive problem. Firstly, what is a final...
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    After Market Final drives

    The non genuine final drive should be okay - you may notice a difference in travel speed it will be more noticeable in high speed if you have this function, in normal speed the difference won't be that noticeable, if you are using this machine for your own work and not hiring it you should be okay.
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    Overheating transmission

    Rather than put a new torque on the machine - the first thing you should do is check that the transmission oil cooler is not blocked externally. It might also be a good idea to fit a new transmission filter and change the oil. If the filter is blocked it will bypass and generate heat.
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    2003 JCB 214 Backhoe Hours Cluster Not Working

    Do you mean the hours clock? If so, this is usually connected to the alternator circuit so it could be a wiring problem.
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    Cat 320 ....Hydraulics area little slow ????????????????????

    Sounds like you really need to get an Engineer to look over this machine for you - to start with they will need to check the working pressures on the machine and then check your pump pressure, for example if the pump pressure is good but the working pressure on every service is low it could...
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    Komatsu PC-78 Final Drive problems

    If it's just a problem with the planetary gears then you can do this without removing the final drive, but if it sounds like it's full of rocks then you may find that the main bearing and bellow seals are also damaged, if this is the case then it's much easier to remove the final drive to work...
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    Komatsu PC-78 Final Drive problems

    You will have to remove the track to get at the final drive on the machine, there is no other way of taking it out and you will have to remove to see the damage - when removed you will probably find that the total costs of the parts to repair the final drive will actually come to more than it...
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    Cat 320 ....Hydraulics area little slow ????????????????????

    A Pressure drop can make the machine slow. If the machine working pressure is good then it might be worth checking the fuel system if the engine isn't running at full RPM. If the pressure in the pump is as it should be then this is a good indication that the hydraulic pump is okay. Another...
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