Cat 955H Seat Replacement

[spikesantee]

Greetings!

I went out on a limb and bought a Cat 955H track loader. So far, so good. It runs good and does what I want. However, it needs a little work.

This is a picture of what I got for a seat.



To be fair to the seller, he had a boat seat sitting on this frame. I removed the frame and gave it a hydrolysis bath to remove the rust so the seat could articulate back and forth.



This worked very well; look at all of the rusty-colored foam on the tank's surface. I've never done hydrolysis before. It's easy, and I plan to tackle a bunch of other rusty things around the place.



I got the seat from WWW.FINNEYPARTS.COM. The service rep knew exactly what I needed. It showed up in three days.



It looks like a factory original when installed. The nice thing is the seat moves back and forth very easily, giving me a variety of settings. This was a big improvement because the temporary seat was down too low to see what I was doing.

Now, I need to learn how to drive this thing.

Best wishes.

 

[CM1995]

Welcome to the Forums spikes! Glad to have you.

Driven by Finney Parts many, many times. They are located across from our main Cat dealers HQ.

 

[Nige]

Now, I need to learn how to drive this thing.

I would suggest that an Operation & Maintenance Manual might be a good first step. Post a Serial Number and I can take a look, they are not expensive. There may even be one available for download from Cat.

EDIT: Actually it's simpler than that. "One size fits all Serial Numbers". You need SEBU6448. $52 to download from Cat.

 

[kshansen]

I'll second that one having the Op and Maint. manual, at the very least!

Some might think $52.00 to down load a book is a lot of money but if it lets you know one thing that needs to be checked or adjusted it can save many times that. A heaven forbid if not knowing something that might be in that book causes you to have too call out a field mechanic from the dealer one time because you did not know something! Then that $52.00 will sound cheap!

Might also want to contact Finny about a service manual, another bargain as it's only $95.00 for a 325 page manual! That's less than $0.30 a page!:

CAT Caterpillar 955H Crawler Loader Dozer Service Technical Manual Book NEW 60a | Finney Equipment and Parts

finneyparts.us

 

[Welder Dave]

I got armrests from Finney. They have seats and arm rests made up for a wide variety of machines. Really good to deal with.