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I am working on a Caterpillar 950Gcaxx02031 Wheel loader
The boss instructed me to verify the serial number and check it out prepurchase. It was in China and he wanted to know if it was a good number and what i thought. So i went to the local cat dealer and the counter ran the serial number, said it was built in 06 in the usa, last service was in 08. IE good number...
So the machine came in, it is not like the other 950gcaxx loaders the company has. When I went to get parts, the cat parts counter cant find seals, or anything that matches up other than the serial number...
My question is about the oversea market, and Caterpillar producing machines for them. Cat told me that there is one serial number per machine, and someone must have changed the axle, and modified the machine... not likly...
Where do we find parts and manuals for the oversea caterpillars in the USA?
Why would cat produce a machine called a 950G and make different modles, and not make referances to accomadate it.
I got to say this, I like the oversea 950G better than the USA machine, it has easy axcess like the 950Ds and seems to be built like you would expect caterpillar to build. I am betting that most parts will get to come from China, and USA dealers will not support. I understand Cat building machines for oversea markets, and making them different, I just dont get why they would give them serial numbers that are numaricaly inline with USA machines. I bet I realy screwed up informing the boss on this one.
I am working on a Caterpillar 950Gcaxx02031 Wheel loader
The boss instructed me to verify the serial number and check it out prepurchase. It was in China and he wanted to know if it was a good number and what i thought. So i went to the local cat dealer and the counter ran the serial number, said it was built in 06 in the usa, last service was in 08. IE good number...
So the machine came in, it is not like the other 950gcaxx loaders the company has. When I went to get parts, the cat parts counter cant find seals, or anything that matches up other than the serial number...
My question is about the oversea market, and Caterpillar producing machines for them. Cat told me that there is one serial number per machine, and someone must have changed the axle, and modified the machine... not likly...
Where do we find parts and manuals for the oversea caterpillars in the USA?
Why would cat produce a machine called a 950G and make different modles, and not make referances to accomadate it.
I got to say this, I like the oversea 950G better than the USA machine, it has easy axcess like the 950Ds and seems to be built like you would expect caterpillar to build. I am betting that most parts will get to come from China, and USA dealers will not support. I understand Cat building machines for oversea markets, and making them different, I just dont get why they would give them serial numbers that are numaricaly inline with USA machines. I bet I realy screwed up informing the boss on this one.