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    1991 Case 1845C tilt piston seals

    You could have a machine shop make a new piston to use the newer seals if you can’t find the old style cup seals
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    New to me MC crawler

    No hood or grille with it?
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    Replacing halogen with leds

    The expensive LED lights are usually better than the cheap ones. The expensive ones i used never failed and stayed on the machine when i sold it
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    Champion 740 wheel stuck on hub

    Stripped sprocket/axle splines inside chain case?
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    Overload of the Day

    A lot of that was probably engineering and other related studies
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    Dumb trailer idea

    Ball joint suspensions on light trucks are only rated for about 3000lbs or thereabouts. Thats why F550’s and others use beam axles. Also, the wheels are not usually rated for the same weight as actual trailer wheels as far as i know
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    wheel nuts

    My old chev truck has stuck the aluminum rims to the hubs too. After i get them off, i run a flap wheel on a die grinder around the pilot bore and then wipe a thin coat of antisieze around the pilot bore. It helps somewhat. All thanks to the corrosive calcium put on our roads in the winter:(...
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    Dumb trailer idea

    I dunno, that whole thing looks scary. There is a very good reason not to trust too much weight on independent ball-joint suspensions. That whole cut-up, modified quagmire is dangerous from so many viewpoints
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    wheel nuts

    Those nuts with the skins are not designed to be used with an air/impact wrench:rolleyes:. Ya, i know—just saying
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    Replacing halogen with leds

    I don’t care for light bars. I like to aim individual lights where i need them. They are expensive but in the past i have used GROTE LED trapazoid or flood lights and used the original mount locations. When compared to the OEM halogens, they put a lot less load on the wiring and light switch...
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    Chrome shaft pitting repair back yard

    I’ve always been concerned that epoxy would come off and contaminate the system
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    This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

    One of the problems around here is that all those marginal employees went to work in the oilpatch when they would take anybody with a pulse. Then the downturn came and they were the first to be laid off. Now they refuse to take a job that pays less, and are either still unemployed, living on...
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    This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

    I’m not saying that, just avoid hiring them for certain jobs other than janitors or something similar. They don’t seem to understand consequences. We used to have a neighbor kid like that
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    Had new hydraulic rods made

    If it is a single pass, they were better off not to machine it down
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    This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

    What some people don’t realize that a lot of employees nowadays have fetal alcohol syndrome and their brains are not ‘wired’ like a normal person’s. They can be hard to work with and train and get into trouble. There’s only so much you can do with them.
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    Case 580D Swing Cylinder Rebuild - Stuck Con Glands - Any tips?

    When the spanner type with the pins doesn’t work, i use an large OTC chain wrench with a snipe. It usually works but its tricky to get the chain to only grab the gland
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    Has anyone else heard this?

    An old trick for unobtainable ring gears was to remove them and if the damage was not too bad, just reinstall about 90 to 100 degrees from where the wear was if it was a good section of the ring gear. If flipping the ring gear, i used a Dremel to put the small chamfer on one side of the teeth...
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    WW2 ARMOURED CATERPILLAR DOZERS (D7A)

    Ya, very noisy and hot inside. Hard to imagine what that was like
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    WW2 ARMOURED CATERPILLAR DOZERS (D7A)

    I would have thought in 1944 it would have had a cable operated blade
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    Komatsu D57S-1 Head gasket seep

    If the seal lip on the new seal is located at the same depth as the original, installing it about 3mm deeper would work but first compare where the lip on the new seal is located. After a couple decades, it depends who made the seal and if it is exactly the same as the old one. The important...
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