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Recent content by Wayne Hittle

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    Help!! Transmission Trouble

    Ya sorry I don’t know will try to find out. It just puzzles me why I can’t shift manually.
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    Help!! Transmission Trouble

    I have a 1980 C6000 dump truck with 366 motor and automatic transmission that is not shifting. Drive, reverse and neutral work but I think in Drive it is stuck in second. When manually shifting thru 1st 2nd and 3rd there is no change. The oil level is correct and not burnt looking. When manually...
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    Cat Swing bearing Aftermarket

    Yes I would be interested in what you think about the product. Do you know what country the bearing is mfg. in? I have a quote from Con Equip parts and several others, leaning towards ConEquip now. Mfg. is Dayco country's of origin Japan, Italy, S. Korea. My swing bearing wasn't listed on ITR's...
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    Cat Swing bearing Aftermarket

    I have to replace the swing bearing in a Cat 308. Does anyone have experience in Quality of aftermarket. Particularly from India or South Korea? Not sure I want to go The China route although they are much cheaper. It seems Aftermarket runs about 60% of OEM.
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    Cat 308E2CR final drive cover

    Nige I did the procedure you sent for vertical movement and the average was 0.152 or 3.8mm. Well outside the service limit of 2.5. Could this have led to the bolts failing? That and the fact the update was never done to inspect and re-torque the bolts. It looks like I will be tearing it back...
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    Cat 308E2CR final drive cover

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    Cat 308E2CR final drive cover

    Oh Ok, I guess I lost track of the start of this post. Your answer was right on for the original question. I was able to drag the carbody out with my tractor as Nige suggested.
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    Cat 308E2CR final drive cover

    I wasn't planning on disassembling the bearing and wouldn't have anyway of doing anything other than replacing the balls and spacers if that and don't think that is all it would need. I'm only guessing but if they regrind the races do they go back with larger balls? I'm hoping that someone will...
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    Cat 308E2CR final drive cover

    Not sure if I should start a new thread on this question but hopefully it will get seen here. Would appreciate if Nige could weigh in on this or anyone else that has an opinion. I got all the broke bolts in the swing gear replaced and the machine is back together. I'm now thinking I should have...
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    Swing Bearing Help/Advice Needed

    Hey RanchTx did you decide to tear into your 305 to repair the swing bearing? If you need more info on how I did it you can pm me and I will send you what I have. I may be going back into mine to replace the bearing.
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    Swing Bearing Help/Advice Needed

    Every things harder at 67 , but still wasn't that bad. Just time consuming 1 day just getting all the broke bolts out and tapping holes. Not sure what machine you sent the procedure on but the 308 has the bolts that hold the inner race/gear on coming down from the top. The only way to inspect...
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    308E2 swing bearing bolt Torque

    Well I got my machine split today now onto replacing the broke bolts a big thanks out to heymccall, james sorochan and Nige. Followed your advice and set my tracks on boards and just drug the carbody out without having to remove the sun gear from the final drives. Used Mahindra 4530 tractor. One...
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    Cat 308E2CR final drive cover

    I will try that, I have some used 2x6 x 20' lumber
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    Cat 308E2CR final drive cover

    Thanks Nige good Info that Cat Technical couldn't even tell me. In fact they were the ones that suggested I may remove the motor if I cant get the cover off. What do you think about heymccall suggestion to just drag it out? I'm on gravel with steel tracks. I watched a video on final drive...
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    Swing Bearing Help/Advice Needed

    I have a similar problem with a 2015 308 with broke bolts in the swing gear/bearing. Cat had an update on this machine to retorq the bolts to a higher torq setting. I had them look my S/N up and the update was never done, bad news is it expired in 2020. This machine only has 1800 hrs on it and I...
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