D8K or D9N need advice!

[bcole4]

Just a quick update, I cleaned the magnet thoroughly and ended up buying a new screen for it because my other one was coming apart a bit on the top.

Hauled to a new job this morning where I will run it about 50 hours and keep fingers crossed that no other debris keeps showing up.

For anyone looking for a good way to clean the magnet, what worked for me after wiping off as much as I could from the outside was to use one of the magnet pickup tools you use to get dropped bolts and such and rub that on the inside and then keep wiping it off and repeating. Got everything I couldn’t from the i side

 

[nicky 68a]

You’ve done an excellent job in cleaning that magnet up.Fair play.
Good cleaning will come in very handy when those steering clutches come out to do the bands etc.I feel your steering controle valve will need to be stripped and cleaned too.
Some heavy work ahead unfortunately,but perhaps you’ll get away lightly.
Steering clutches and brake bands are t too heavy on the wallet,just labour intensive.I’d advise getting a good man to check your cross shafts etc out while you’re in there.
TC travtors has depressing pictures of at least 2 of my D8’s he did this job on,but worth every penny.

 

[John Shipp]

Caterpillar Sproket Removal (also Komatsu)

Just thought I would start a new thread on stuff I get up to, this will include sproket removal etc from D9G/H down through to D3, and Komatsus' from D30 to 155 as I dig out the pics. (May contain traces of nuts).

www.heavyequipmentforums.com

This link has been posted earlier up the thread, but for reference Nicky are some of those pictures in TC Tractor's thread here?

 

[nicky 68a]

Caterpillar Sproket Removal (also Komatsu)

Just thought I would start a new thread on stuff I get up to, this will include sproket removal etc from D9G/H down through to D3, and Komatsus' from D30 to 155 as I dig out the pics. (May contain traces of nuts).

www.heavyequipmentforums.com

This link has been posted earlier up the thread, but for reference Nicky are some of those pictures in TC Tractor's thread here?

Yes,they will be most definitely