Yikes I got a price from Elliott for a stripped down cooler ( no shroud , fan or couplers ) is $ 2,200.00 insane! I am having one built to the spec of the crane for $600.00. In the mean time I have been running without, and the highest i have seen it was yesterday at 43 degrees C and that was setting hog slats for three hours.I spent a good chunk of last Saturday going over my my boom truck, and I found a wet spot on the bottom of my hydraulic cooler rad , so I tore it apart and it was packed full of salt and sand " nasty" I put a pressure test on it and sure enough the hole bottom of it was badly pitted and one corner was leaking. with great hopes I took it to a repair shop, no luck they said it was too far gone. I called my dealer they got a price from Elliott YIKES!! $2,250.00 and i re-use my own thermostat and fan. I talked to the service manager and he said with a crane my size, unless i was doing heavy duty cycle work i really didn't need it. Today i checked the tank temperature several times it never got above 40 C ( sorry i didn't check it in F ) . I think i'll take some time and find an after market cooler, I really want to keep everything working on it.I have done some checking and have seen quite a few around $600.00 with the same specs as my old one. does any-one have any words of wisdom or caution.
Thanks
Tradesman
It was the first time I've set slatted flooring, I woke up a 4:30 am thinking about it almost made myself sick. It turned out to be a piece of cake I was never over 60 percent capacity we set the trucks up at a nearly perfect radius. The only problem was the hole for half the slats was 1/2" too small so we just set them down and the workers where trimming the ends with a quick cut. Just a note , not one of my jobs just doing the crane work for another contractor