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| awemawson:
Small update: I'd forgotten that to remove the spherical sintered bronze bush from the inner end of the spindle, I'd had to shorten it by a few tens of thou. When I put it back together I'd not tweaked the end float adjustment to compensate - this is just a grub screw and lock nut externally mounted. I've just removed it from the machine, tweaked the end float until it felt right, and re-fitted it. I reckon the armature was moving outwards a bit and fouling on something. It's by no means as powerful as I'd like, but it wipes a wet window now :clap: |
| vtsteam:
Satisfying to get something so seemingly gone, back working again! :beer: |
| awemawson:
There's been a spate of small digger thefts in Southern England in the last few weeks - with one or two people actually advertising rewards for recovery on eBay. Considering the silly amount of dosh I've sunk into this machine I decided to fit a 'Track Lock'. It comprises a heavy slotted plate that you weld to the undercarriage, and a sort of 'hasp and staple' arrangement slots through it, the pins of which pass through the steel 'chain' of the tracks. Stops the digger being driven onto a trailer - it doesn't stop it being lifted by a Hiab though. |
| AdeV:
Surely you only need to put a copy of this thread on the driver's seat - any potential thieves would take one look & run a mile.... :lol: |
| awemawson:
Still doing a bit of tidying up on this machine. I was determined to get the horn working. The wiring was a mystery :scratch: None of the illustrations either in the workshop manual or the parts books seemed to match up. Both showed the horn as located in the right hand drivers 'pod' - not only was it a daft place to put it, it wasn't there and nor was the wiring :bang: A bit of searching and eventually I found it where it should logically be placed, under the cab frame at the front. I pulled it off, tested it, cleaned it up and replaced it. A pair of wires were close but unconnected - on they went as their colours matched the diagram and sure enough I can now scare the sheep out of the way :ddb: Originally there would have been a pair of working lights on the boom, and another pair on the top front of the cab. Vestigial bits of wire to the cab but all lost off the boom. A bit of searching around and I eventually found a pair of correct coloured wires emerging from the loom under the floor terminated in an AMP 'Econoseal' female connector with one pole horribly charred. I managed to source some Econoseal connector pairs on ebay which are rated at 10 amps per way. Not sure what wattage the original boom lights were but I reckon someone had put too large a bulb in. I sourced a pair of Chinese LED lights rated at 27 watts each so far lower than the originals would have been. The wires for the boom lights have to follow the same route as the hydraulic pipes as of course as things articulate they get bent - I think I've left enoughy slack :scratch: Don't you love Chinese products. The lights had nicely made stainless steel mountings and nuts and bolts. 13 mm a/f nuts with 14 mm a/f bolts :bang: Rather than put another pair of work lights on the cab I've got a 'light bar' as it fits neatly over the windscreen and will mount on a length of 'Unistrut' - it's 120 watts so should shine into dim corners rather nicely :lol: (Waiting on a couple of Unistrut spring loaded nuts so not yet mounted) |
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