The Learner
Well-Known Member
Hello all,
Been away a while but coming back for some advice
Have a 2.5t excavator at home
And it’s starting to have an intermittent hydraulic issue.
If anyone has experienced similar and can assist in my diagnosis I’d be wrapped.
Now you can operate it for hours on end and it’s fine
But increasingly it’s loosing most of the power in the tracks, but it’s a strange fault
You track forwards and it starts off moving normally then the engine starts to stall and the machine slows down until you stop tracking or the engine stalls.
It will fault in both travel directions BUT you can slew machine around 360 and the fault goes away sometimes for minutes sometimes for hours.
Would I be right to assume the swivel joint is causing this?
Qualified machinery mechanic here
But stumped to find the answer of this fault normally this would only happen in one drive so you can start swapping hoses to fault find but this time I don’t have that option
Cheers
Been away a while but coming back for some advice
Have a 2.5t excavator at home
And it’s starting to have an intermittent hydraulic issue.
If anyone has experienced similar and can assist in my diagnosis I’d be wrapped.
Now you can operate it for hours on end and it’s fine
But increasingly it’s loosing most of the power in the tracks, but it’s a strange fault
You track forwards and it starts off moving normally then the engine starts to stall and the machine slows down until you stop tracking or the engine stalls.
It will fault in both travel directions BUT you can slew machine around 360 and the fault goes away sometimes for minutes sometimes for hours.
Would I be right to assume the swivel joint is causing this?
Qualified machinery mechanic here
But stumped to find the answer of this fault normally this would only happen in one drive so you can start swapping hoses to fault find but this time I don’t have that option
Cheers