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    Komatsu WA500-3 low fuel pressure

    We have a 3-lk machine that just did the same deal, The lift pump or pressure pump for the common rail gets weak. ours would run fine in the morning or early morning but once hot it would power down. We replaced the whole pump, you can just replace some parts, but it is not a whole lot more...
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    980m vs L220h vs wa500-7

    We are in the process of buying a new loader. I was just wondering if anyone had experience with any of the above machines. We are having trouble narrowing down the 3 to just one. So just asking for some general opinions. Thanks, E.
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    Komatsu Wa480 fuelproblems

    I don't know if it is exactly like our 2002 wa500-3, but we where having a similar problem. We also got a different code with the different machine. Ours would run most of the morning and sometime even into the afternoon, before it would go into limp mode. As the temperature rises the fuel gets...
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    Opinions of CAT 769c Rigid Truck

    One thing to remember about the cats is that those 3408's are really expensive to rebuild. I was at a sale last spring where they had used runners, one was an old generator motor and no idea on the other, 1980's vintage first brought $15k, second bought $17k. We run a rainbow fleet, terex...
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    Liebherr vs Volvo Wheel Loaders...

    We just bought a new stockpile loader, and demoed an L180g. like farm boy said the volvo dash display is hard to read and worse if you were sun glasses. Over all i really liked the machine, it handled the material well. Never have ran a liebherr. My $.02 is what ever machine you buy make sure...
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    Dresser/IH 515b

    I just bought a 515b loader and was wondering if anyone knew a place that has approx. weights for this machine. I got one of these guides that says around 18000lbs. I am wanting to know because i got a 20k trailer. Thanks in advance.
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    volvo G series

    not a volvo guy, but....... i was at con-agg/conexpo and was very impressed. I am not a volvo guy by any means (still bitter on how they f*cked over my michigans). The new cabs and new sloped hood is really nice. I looked at a new 980k cat, and with out running them i'd rather have the volvo. I...
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    My Clark Michigan 75B

    75b was my favorite as a kid. You really have most of the bases covered. Minnpar is now the official parts dealer for michigan wheel loader in the US, Volvo solds the rights around 2009. Volvo bought michigan out in 1986, they made michigans intill '92 over here. Parts are still hard to find...
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    New 9yd Machine

    I actually saw this machine out an conexpo and it is pretty neat, didn't get to look real close, i was only out there for a couple of days so didn't feel like waiting in line for 20 mins to look at something. It is a big machine just as big as the 988 and wa600 a couple of booths away. it looks...
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    Introducing the Cat K Series Wheel Loaders

    i was just out at con expo They had a 980 and a 950 on display, the cabs are better than the g&h's but, i thought the new g series volvos looked better. dayexco is right the cat loaders i have been around have never been overly blessed with power, we run a 972h that replaced a 744h deere...
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    Pair of new WA500-6s

    We got a 500-3 With close to 9000 hrs, and all we have done to it is changed 4 hoses and serviced it thats it, The dash 6 machines are supposed to be heavier and faster than the old 3's. I'd hate to tell you bob that we liked the 500-3 better than the 980G that we tried. And the 6's look so...
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    So, what about them Steiger tractors??

    the guy that moved our dirt last year used a KT (1150) cummins powered machine with two pans, Intill we got into the rocky soil switched to a hoe and artic's. but the old girl moved alot of dirt, had problems rubbin holes in the tires from all the torque from that K.
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    Buy or Run Away Fast?

    If you don't have to have a cat, 20-30 g's will buy a nice machine in that class size and a fairly new one with a lot of hours tho. This machine sounds like a basket case to me i would pass, even if you want to spend only 15k, u could find nicer machines than this one
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    Bleed Green

    I have a buddy who is a wrench at the agco dealer, and he says the new deere class 6 combines don't have enough power to go hard and unload on the go, He's knows two guys that have them and both are having the same issues, one guy asked him about a new massey trade!
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    Fiat Allis FR20 Engine

    i don't know the size of the machine, but a cummins b or c would be the way i would go, both are fairly cheap to buy and rebuild and cummins dealers are every where, i couldn't even begin to tell you where to go for iveco parts
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    what loader would be best

    cheap loaders: there is no such thing as cheap cat, but cat will get you any part you need, might have to pay through the nose but, you'll get the part. We ran michigan's for years i started on a 75b, although we repowered it with a 5.9 b cummins had a 555 v-8, damn nice little machine. you can...
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    dirt sticks in the dump box

    "clean fill" is a new hot word here in IL, In order to take dirt, rock, concrete, black top for fill you have to have an IL EPA permit. We used to take waste off of jobs but have not and will not for quite some time. So if you have to pay to dump keep this in mind. Also rock & dirt, Access...
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    any love for some red tractors?

    nothing runs like a deere, everything else runs better. Its to bad IH didn't have better leadership the CEO they had from the late 70's on drove it head first in the ground. Did you know the magnum tractors are a international design? The only thing case did was put a power ship in the 3 range...
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    Electric Drive Tractors!!!

    dhjmdls-that deer dozer you r describing is the new "high speed dozer" used for light grading etc. looks to me like a glorified grader but whatever. A retired cat man told me that the high track has some good points in the bigger machines, but in stuff smaller than a 7 you are better off...
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    330 Volvo

    I have never ran a volvo and probably never will. My familly has been running a quarry since the 1950's we had allis chalmers loaders, till the first articulated michigan's came out and ran them till the early 1990's. When volvo bought michigan in 1986 it was the begining of the end. We had a...
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