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    John Deere 25 mini parts availability.

    So I am looking at buying a 1980's john deere 25. He says it Has a couple bad bottom rollers, sloppy bucket bushings, the swing bearing on the turntable rocks a little , and overall it works fine and runs good. It is in my price range of under 10k which is pretty rare for anything that even...
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    426 cat stops moveing

    i have a 1987 2wd 426 cat wit 2400 hours on it. it has developed a problem, about 5 months ago i was digging stumps and i went to reposition and the machine wouldn't move fwd or rev. i took the floor pans up and tapped on the neutralizer selonoid and then it worked. i have put about 200 hours on...
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    best bucket for cleaning out ditches

    I have a standard digging bucket for my 426 cat and I have trouble cleaning out ditches. or making any clean cut for that matter. seems no matter how I roll the bucket or pull the dipper and boom up at the same time it just sort of tears the dirt at the inside edge of my scoop everything flops...
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    426 cat outrigger pads keep breaking

    I welded them back together when I got the machine and they have broken right beside my welds, I kept hearing tink tink tinking while I was welding and suspect it to be cast iron. is there supposed to be some 3/4 plate or rubber bolted to the bottom that I am missing? I am thinking about...
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    ca 426 fuel air bindeing

    1985 426 cat with perkins engine. it will run great for days and days. months even. then all of the sudden (usually at the most inopportune time) it will die. I bleed the fuel system and crank it over for about 5 minutes and it will start. then for the next 2 hours it will get little air...
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    accesing fittings on valve stacks

    sprung a leak on one of the hydraulic fittings on the valve stack of my backhoe. I had to take the floor up and of course it was in the middle of the valve so I had to take all the lines to the left off to get the leaky one apart and repaired. got me thinking there must be a better way. maybe a...
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    installing tire chains on 426 cat

    I have a 1987 426 cat that is 2wd, I would like to plow my driveway with it in the winter but 2wd won’t cut the mustard without chains. It has 19.2x24 tires on it that barely clear the cab. There are only about 1” of clearance between the cab and the sidewall. Has anyone put a different size...
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    building root rake

    I am building a root rake for my TD6-62. I have never used one but am clearing some land and I think it would be useful. I scrounged a piece of 8" high pressure gas transmission pipe from a scrap heap for main beam. Then last fall I picked up these homemade spanner wrenches from work that were...
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    whats your favorite welding helmet

    I used to have a Jackson shadow. it was an ok good helmet. I was welding inside a door arch on a water leak at a steel mill I use to work at with a heat of steel in the furnace. I reached up to flip the hood down and it was so hot in there my fingers went through the plastic........ that was a...
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    cat 426 valve clearance

    working through the back log of stuff on this new to me 1987 426 cat, it has the perkins engine. i have it all the tin off for other stuff so i thought i would gap the valves. it has sat a lot to say the least. the previous owner says he changed the head gasket at around 1200 hours, it is...
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    TD6 bucyrus erie loose blade linkage

    what little bit I ran the TD6 last year showed my how sloppy the pins are in the blade. if I raise and lower it on the garage floor the arms travel about 2 inches before the blade starts to lift off the ground. I pulled the main pin to see if I could drill it out and put a bigger pin in today...
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    rolling white smoke during start up

    I have an old TD6-62 with a D282 that I built out of 2 machines that I got all in pieces… somebody was putting the tracks and clutches from one into the other then he died. Anyway when I start it up it rolls whiteish diesel smoke for a minute or two. Then it will cough and sputter and clear...
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    426 dies

    i got the hoe all welded back together on this new to me 426, installed some new cyls added new hyd fluid. changed the engine oil and went to do something and it died and wouldn't restart. i put a bottle of K100 fuel treatment in the fuel tank. cleaned the sedement bowl and replaced the fuel...
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    2500psi hydraulic cylinder on a 2700 psi system ?

    The E-stick cylinder on my backhoe is scored real bad inside. So I ordered a 3” bore 48” stroke prince cylinder. Figured I would just use the rod out of mine in the new cylinder since it has the right end on it and I assume my OEM cat cyl rod has better chrome and harder steel than the prince...
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    stick wear pad adjustment

    I’m in the process of fixing up the hoe on a new to me 1987 cat 426. I am ready to adjust the wear pads and was wondering how you go about this. The pads don’t appear to have any screws holding them on. Perhaps somebody brazed them in or they are worn to the point where the slot is gone? I have...
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    carbon arc not working

    i used to do a lot of carbon arc gouging when i worked in the steel mill, i used a miller big blue 500 with 1/2" rods turned all the way up and just went to town, i would air arc for 12 hours a night for about a week on some of the bigger weld jobs. so when i saw a lot of welds that need fixed...
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    welding cat 426 backhoe boom

    This 1990 426 cat I picked up only has 2200 hours on it but the backhoe is all beat up for some reason. Not sure what they were doing to it or if it is just because armatures were running it but it has had some previous repairs and currently has a small crack in the bottom cast section of the...
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    new to me cat 426 questions

    Hello everyone, this is a great forum and I was hoping you guys could help me out with few questions. I just bough a 1989 cat 426 backhoe, this is my first newer piece of equipment. All my other stuff is 1960’s vintage and it is all very simple in comparison. I am not a professional I just do...
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