Back 20 years or so I used to pull down around 3 or 4 F/Drives a month, that is go to site or yard and just pop the rim off for the C'os fitters to tackle the innards and give them a few tips on how to go about the bearing removal task etc, this was on mainly track shovels 941 to 977, the Komatsu kit was also very popular in my area so I used to also get stuck into them, the job of "dread" was the dead shaft in 155's the outside end thread would strip leading to some fearfull task to pull/cut out the knacker bit, in the end there was a repair developed to restore the end so it was a good result as getting the new shaft in was nearly as much trouble as getting the thing out, now I would be a lot more confident at doing 1 in short time but this work does not turn up anymore, I use my service press tooling near every week on something, its a good way to earn a pound as no one seems to want to do this type of work, it would seem the Laptop rules for them that dont want a bit of graft on the big bolts?? what I struggle with is finding a young skin wanting to learn the ropes with any interest, please dont think I only beat around old junk as I get plenty of work on new crap, but I tend not to take snap's of this iron.
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