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    Recovery of flood damaged heavy equipment

    Recovery of Flooded Heavy Equipment Part 2 by Mechtronik Recovery of Flooded Heavy Equipment Part 2 by Mechtronik After the recent flood events in Australia Mechtronik technicians have been working flat out getting a wide variety of heavy equipment up and running again. Using the methods...
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    Recovery of flood damaged heavy equipment

    Thanks for your comments I am going into Rocklea tomorrow to recover a yanmar excavator Looks like I should book into a local pub as I could be there for some time regards Dave Armstrong
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    Recovery of flood damaged heavy equipment

    I would be very interested in anybody's experiences in flooded machine recovery What worked, what didn't and what you found inside components and how your repairs held up long term. Dave Armstrong MECHTRONIK The recent flood event in Australia has left us with a maintenance and...
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    Standby Generator Maintenance

    Steve I often see the engine auxillary systems tend to get neglected in these stand by units as they get little use. While oil change intervals definatly need to be conducted based on months not hours you should look at the coolant condition and have it tested at 6 monthly intervals as any...
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    175B stall lload

    You should find out the stall RPM speck from the dealer If the Rpm attained is lower than spec then you need to look at your engine systems fuel - air intake etc If a higher Rpm is generated you have transmission clutch or converter problems You should be able to achieve stall just on the...
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    What to do with flood damaged vehicles?

    Have any of you guys stripped down any heavy equipment after a flood I would be interested to know if any mud got into the transmission case through the breather and if all the oil was displaced by water Also if the water head was high did the air intake filters collapse flooding the turbo and...
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    What to inspect when buying Second Hand Bulldozer

    Randy88 don't get dung and bung mixed up or you are moving into dangerous teritory Dung is camel droppings Bung is a plug A dung bung is a butt plug I think that's how you put it in the USA
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    What to inspect when buying Second Hand Bulldozer

    I normally start an inspection at the radiator check the condition of the coolant for colour strength and oil ingress. Black oil engine brown oil trans check for compression bubbling Air intake next - remove filters and check for dusting - remove turbo intake hoses and check side thrust and...
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    Akio Toyoda has guts

    The recent Toyota vehicle recall and admission by Toyota president Akio Toyoda who said that Toyota has, for the past few years, been expanding its business rapidly. Quite frankly, I fear the pace of which we have grown may have been too quick," I would like to point out here that Toyota's...
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    Advertised Hours..

    Most units do 2000 hours per year on average
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    D-7 3-T motor - Help

    The first place to look at is usually your engine oil cooler as this seems to give most problems. Is there any engine oil in the radiator as oil will tend to pass to the coolant with the engine running and the other way with engine stopped due to the higher pressure held in the coolant sys...
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    need a fluid that can safely replace or mix with bobcat hydraulic hydrostatic fluid

    a 30w trans oil will run fine in the hyd and its cheap I cracked a hose on one once and it was running on diesel , seems our night serviceman was getting confused
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    bobcat s220 running hot

    first establish the temp the engine is reaching second establish you are getting a temp drop across the radiator the amount doesn't matter so much as long as it isn't excessive or nonexistant. Some checks you can make are thermostat opening temp - aim your temp gun at the top hose near the...
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    bobcat s220 running hot

    check the temp into and out of the radiator This will establish the actual temp and how much the radiator is cooling
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