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    recommended best older small dozer

    I also vote for the Komatsu D31. Our is a 1996 model and a real work horse.
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    Komatsu D31 Problems

    What about the flulds? Have you checked the fluid levels to make sure they are not low?
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    Protecting Driver and Dozer While Clearing Brush

    Well, let's hope that don't happen. If it did, I have a fire extingusher mounted on the inside of the cage with me but I'd grab it and be out the front. I "ain't" hanging around inside to fight the fire. I'd rather fight it from the outside.
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    Protecting Driver and Dozer While Clearing Brush

    Pics of my rook rake are located in this thread - https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/showthread.php?21364-Protecting-Driver-and-Dozer-While-Clearing-Brush&p=269933&highlight=#post269933
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    what is the good and bad and ugly on the komatsu d31 2003-2010

    I can't speak to the newer '03-'10 Komatsu D31s but I have a 1995 model that has been excellent. Keep oil & filters clean and no problems. Turns over less than a round before it fires right up. If the new ones are as good as my older one, they should be good.
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    Wanted - Drip Torch

    Guys, I am looking to buy a used Drip Torch in good condition. Let me know what you have, price, condition, ect...... Thanks.
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    Dozer Rental

    To answer your question we need to know what you will be doing with the dozer. Clearing trees will take one size of dozer while finish grading will take another size of dozer.
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    Lesson Learned

    Lesson learned - Saturday morning went to get on the dozer about 7am to doze some fire lanes around 60 acres we are going to control burn to reduce the fuel on the ground. When I got to the dozer I approached the back of the left track. Reached up with right hand and grabbed handle. As I...
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    Komatsu D31P-20 Hydraulic lines

    Guys, do any of you know of an easy logical way to add a set of hydraulic lines to a Komatsu D31P-20 dozer? I have a Rome offset disk that I want to pull to plow some firelanes up and down very steep hills. The hydraulic lines will be used to raise and lower the transport wheels on the disk.
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    Dozer Storage Over-winter

    Others are more qualified to answer than I but to answer your question - Yes. It also needs to be moved, turned and operated to keep everything from siezing up. KY is not that cold in early winter or late winter. Get that dozer out and work it some......
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    Protecting Driver and Dozer While Clearing Brush

    sick&tired, That's the hard part, you have to enter from the front. Step over the front screen onto the hydraulic cylinder and onto the tracks. Since this dozer is for use on our farm, the access is not a problem. If it was a work dozer where I got on and off a dozen times a day, I might...
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    Protecting Driver and Dozer While Clearing Brush

    I know this is not exactly what you are looking for but here are a few pictures of my Komatsu D31P-20. The PO added the sweeps and the cage. Unless a limb comes in the front, it would be hard pressed to get you. Now, yellow jackets are a different story...................
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    Need cab for D5H

    Jeff, Would this work ? http://cgi.ebay.com/Caterpillar-D4H-D5H-Dozer-Cab-Enclosure-/200511710744?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eaf6de618 It's not a factory cab but I suspect trying to put a factory cab on a non-factory dozer would be a major undertaking. I have a Komatsu D31 and...
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    Section for komatsu d20,21 and similar grey market dozers

    I restore old military vehicles as a hobby. Occasionaly the clutch on an old Jeep will stick to the pressure plate. What I usually do, is to crank the jeep and drive it while pumping the clutch. Sometimes it takes only a few feet, other times it has taken a 1/4 mile or so. I have not ever had...
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    Ever see a big Bobcat dozer?

    Try this - http://six-wheeler.com/M880.html It was missing the "H" in front
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    2005 850J Dozer Need Help

    1st - Thank you for your service. My BIL leaves tomorrow for a year in Afaghanistan. 2nd - I'm not a diesle machanic but, have you tried cracking open the fuel lines going to the injectors? Start with the ones fartherest from the Pump and crank it over. When you get fuel, close it and go to...
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    Checking Engine oil Level

    On my Komatsu D31, I check the oil and water every day before I start it. The manual calls for checking the oil before startup. It makes no difference whether I read the dipstick when I pull it out 1st thing or read it after I pull, wipe clean and put back in. The reading is the same. Any...
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    Stripped Out Final Drive Drain Plug

    IronDirt is correct. Stick a hexhead bolt in the hole and weld it to the plug. Use a wrench to back the plug out. It can't get no easier than this.
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    Need Komatsu D31P-20 Left Fender

    I found a used part in S. Georgia on a D31P-20 which is being dismanteled. The price was "only" $150 which is a lot less than the new Komatsu $700 part and the $335 used part I found at and equipment dealer in Hattisburg MS. I ordered the $150 part and it's on its way here via UPS. I wanted the...
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    Need Komatsu D31P-20 Left Fender

    Today while clearing some property, I thrashed what the Komatsu Parts book calls a Left hand Fender on my 1995 D31P-20. If you know of a D31P-20 which as the ROPS and is being dismantled please let me know. The Komatsu Parts book list the part number as 114-54-49870. I would like to buy...
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