Minnesota Eric
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Today I was able to chase the Hough Home. Now comes the hard part: fixing it.
I could also make suggestion about the missing lines to the bucket leveler valve, but yes brakes are very important!Congrats on getting the machine delivered, looks like it is in very good condition and looks like it's a strong runner. From the looks of it the left front bucket corner needs some welding and a new cutting edge, pretty minor compared to the braking issue. Looking forward to your progress.
I believe those are BF Goodrich Off-highway disc brakes, the rights to them I think were taken over by Carlisle in the 1990's. I believe some Cat loaders used them.I've never seen a caliper quite like that, but every one I've seen has the bleeder screws on the top. Sometimes they have the opening on top and bottom because the caliper fits either side, but only the top one bleeds the air out. If those broken bleeders are the ones you need to get out, clean the mud daubers out of the middle part way down, weld a nut to them getting the bleeder as hot as fast as possible, then turn them out when cool to the touch. I wouldn't mess with the ones on the bottom though, unless you want to drain all the old fluid out?
Agree. Just un screw one and measure, I'd lay money that they are 3/8-24 thread so next question would be the length. Measure over-all and from tip that goes into caliper to the top of threads and you have all that you need. Then screw it back in and go to store or online. If you don't have a thread gauge just try a fine thread 3/8 bolt, if that's too big try a 5/16 fine. Very slight chance they would be metric.Is there a non broken one you can take out to match up?
Thyat thing near the end of the video you taped on calling it a "gizmo" is the either injector.A tour of the problems my Hough H-80B Pay Loader has and my plan to move forward and address those issues and problems. Any tips and suggestions are welcome!