stars&bars44
Well-Known Member
Hello all.
Well I bought my first loader today, sort of. Trying it out. It's a Cat 955L 85J serial. It's been sitting for several years. After some fresh batteries she fired up and does not smoke a bit. I couldn't get it to move and one pedal was on the floor. So after a can of WD40 on all the linkages and some movement everything seemed to work good. All 3 gears in both directions pull. The more I ran it around the better it started turning. All good things end, and after the lowboy came a few days later the right pedal still had to be pulled back up with your toe. It kept wanting to turn right randomly even with pedal up. Kinda hairy loading it...We moved it to a job and hour away. I wanted to service it and as I was driving it over to a shade tree it acted like the pedal was stomped hard to turn right. It was all the way up. I would throw it in reverse and it would back up a foot or so, then forward 2 feet and same thing. Any ideas on what to check other than really working the linkages over? Also as I was raising the arms to pull side covers off the lift cylinder hose blew. After we figured out what happened I cranked it to pull it up out of oil so we could lay under and it drove just fine about 15 feet while loading the bucket. Maybe it has to be warm to do it?? Any help you guys can send I would greatly appreciate it!
Kyle
Well I bought my first loader today, sort of. Trying it out. It's a Cat 955L 85J serial. It's been sitting for several years. After some fresh batteries she fired up and does not smoke a bit. I couldn't get it to move and one pedal was on the floor. So after a can of WD40 on all the linkages and some movement everything seemed to work good. All 3 gears in both directions pull. The more I ran it around the better it started turning. All good things end, and after the lowboy came a few days later the right pedal still had to be pulled back up with your toe. It kept wanting to turn right randomly even with pedal up. Kinda hairy loading it...We moved it to a job and hour away. I wanted to service it and as I was driving it over to a shade tree it acted like the pedal was stomped hard to turn right. It was all the way up. I would throw it in reverse and it would back up a foot or so, then forward 2 feet and same thing. Any ideas on what to check other than really working the linkages over? Also as I was raising the arms to pull side covers off the lift cylinder hose blew. After we figured out what happened I cranked it to pull it up out of oil so we could lay under and it drove just fine about 15 feet while loading the bucket. Maybe it has to be warm to do it?? Any help you guys can send I would greatly appreciate it!
Kyle
