This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

[Vetech63]

Yesterday I had a joystick handle replacement to do on a Deere loader. I opened the box and WAHHHLAAAA.......

My very first thought was "Those lazy M&*^r F%&*ers." I even texted our resident Deere God and asked if this was a new thing or a mistake. Keep in mind I haven't removed the old one yet...........It looks pretty straight forward and simple but............you have to remove multiple panels, unbolt the joystick bracket, lay the entire thing in the cab floor, and finish the disassembly from there. Then, on this machine, the steering wheel is pulled as close to the seat as it can possibly go and is LOCKED right there..........so I hit the back of my head on that wheel so many times I lost count. The good news is I saw why this is sold like this...........you have to thread the wire harness through a hole in the joystick base plate and there is NO room for the plug. This took 2 hours to accomplish............another fine example of "Why did it take so long to do something so simple?"
So, I DONT get to complain about lazy manufacturers or parts guys dammit LOL..........OH WAIT.............my UPS next day air I ordered Friday that was supposed to be here yesterday morning didn't show up and the dealer had no tracking number. OMG THOSE FREAKING PARTS GUYS!!! AHHHH.........now I feel much better!

 

[digger doug]

Looks like they even crimped the connector pins on for you, assume you use the special tool to push out the old pins from the connector shell ?

 

[Clinton Justice]

I am reading this thread and trying with all my might to not let my very British sarcasm runaway with me, so instead I'll let an amazing comedian do it for me

That’s funny as hell!!! The sad part is it’s true I’m not only American but even in America I am from the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern US we are considered Hillbillies. To make it even worse I am a redneck that’s a hillbilly that doesn’t care to be an outsider. You would really enjoy listening to rednecks talking to each other. We have dumbed things down so much that we can’t hardly communicate with other Americans. I was born and raised in what we call the head of a holler.

 

[HATCHEQUIP]

yep but you boys got plenty of holes in those hollers an hills to hide thangs down here we have to dig our on holes or wait for the hogs to get hungry

 

[DMiller]

Gotta love it!

 

[Nige]

That’s funny as hell!!! The sad part is it’s true I’m not only American but even in America I am from the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern US we are considered Hillbillies. To make it even worse I am a redneck that’s a hillbilly that doesn’t care to be an outsider. You would really enjoy listening to rednecks talking to each other. We have dumbed things down so much that we can’t hardly communicate with other Americans. I was born and raised in what we call the head of a holler.

Buford T wasn’t a cousin of yours by any chance was he.?

 

[Mike L]

Why do you have a liebherr joystick for a Deere loader?

 

[mowingman]

Why do you have a liebherr joystick for a Deere loader?

I know the Liebherr made/makes the JD track loaders. Perhaps this is a tracked loader he is talking about??

 

[crane operator]

liebherr builds some stuff for deere. I know their big dozers and track loaders were liebherr with JD paint.

 

[colson04]

Our 304K had a Leibherr manufacturing data plate attached to the frame. Also had a joystick that resembled what @Vetech63 is working on.

 

[sfrs4]

That’s funny as hell!!! The sad part is it’s true I’m not only American but even in America I am from the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern US we are considered Hillbillies. To make it even worse I am a redneck that’s a hillbilly that doesn’t care to be an outsider. You would really enjoy listening to rednecks talking to each other. We have dumbed things down so much that we can’t hardly communicate with other Americans. I was born and raised in what we call the head of a holler.

Believe me it's no different here, what most of the world believes is the Queens English is hardly spoken here, the variance in dialect in such a small country is amazing to most and we have our own "hillybilly/redneck"

 

[JD955SC]

Cat Backhoe joysticks for the front end loader are the same way, you have to tape and fish the wire bundle down the whole joystick tube.

 

[Vetech63]

Looks like they even crimped the connector pins on for you, assume you use the special tool to push out the old pins from the connector shell ?

New plug came with it..........just push the pins in the right holes from the back.

 

[Vetech63]

Why do you have a liebherr joystick for a Deere loader?

I know the Liebherr made/makes the JD track loaders. Perhaps this is a tracked loader he is talking about??

524K Wheel loader

 

[Vetech63]

Same loader 1 day later. Upper radiator tank blew out. The work is endless.

 

[oarwhat]

Same loader 1 day later. Upper radiator tank blew out. The work is endless.
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I don't how that could be accomplished. Those guys are good.

 

[scholzee]

I don't how that could be accomplished. Those guys are good.

Lead free America switched from copper brass radiator's with lead solder to crimp plastic with O-rings and aluminum core . Heat cycles, pressure cycles and using that plastic as mounting support always going to shorten its useful life span

 

[DMiller]

Add to that Plastic does NOT expand/Contract at the rate Aluminum does. These tend to fail from that cycle.

 

[HATCHEQUIP]

Vetech that engine wouldn't be making a little bit of compression in cooling system would it?

 

[HATCHEQUIP]

Buford T wasn’t a cousin of yours by any chance was he.?
Nope Nige but Enos was branch kin and I married Daisy