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It's BIG, Yellow and digs holes! JCB 3CX Project 8 is joining the Tractor Shed
awemawson:
To get an idea of how much play there was in the steering tie rod pins, and also the steering hydraulic RAM pins I wanted to shoot a couple of very short videos. Hardest part was persuading the wife to sit in the cab and rock the wheel !
. . . off to order the bits !
awemawson:
The replacement tie rod bushes, pins, seals, grease nipples, and circlip arrived this morning - good service actually a day earlier than anticipated so a shout out to Vicary Plant Spares :thumbup:
All I need now is a bit of enthusiasm to do the job - not today as it's drizzling and cold and anyway company is expected - probably won't get to it until the weekend.
Now please explain to me why 668 people have watched the little video I posted of the near side slack movement? The off side has had 27 views, which is about the number of views the pictures in this thread get, but why 668 for the other one - the title must trigger some search that certainly I don't understand :scratch:
vtsteam:
Try changing the title by removing the "Project 9JCB....." portion of the offside video as a test.
If the hits are still disproportionate I'd say it simply comes up first in play order (as well as here in the thread), and the majority are not interested enough after seeing it to follow up with the second. Also check your stats and see how many people finish the first video as opposed to leaving it before the end. That would tell you if the title of the first one was generalized and therefore not well matched to the content. A viewer who is there mistakenly for a tie rod problem on his Prius will not follow up with more excavator wear videos.
awemawson:
Today's task: replace the track bar pins, bushes and seals:
Firstly I turned up a tool to drive the old bushes out and the new ones in. Just a length of round bar large diameter 29.90 mm and smaller diameter 24.90 to be a nice clearance fit for the 30 x 25 mm bushes.
That done I raised the front axle on the bucket and applied myself to extracting the off side tie rod pin but very quickly got stuck with the inevitable 'gotcha's ' ! . The pin was amazingly tight - OK not unexpected - and eventually using an air chisel with a snub nose tool was able to get it moving upwards only to find that this pin retaining tab fouls on the eye of the steering ram, so the pin for the steering ram needs to come off first :bang:
Now that wasn't too bad I I have the new bush for the steering ram to fit . . .BUT . . this pin is into a blind hole so no knocking it out from below and it's just as tightly in the non rotating bit as was the other pin. . . . an impasse. I then discovered that by removing the mud guard, putting the steering hard over to the right and removing the steering ram grease nipple the tie rod pin retaining flag would just pass it if suitably rotated.
OK we're back in business - the old bush knocked out fairly easily and the new one went in fine. I took the precaution of injecting grease through the nipple to ensure that the passageway lined up. However the seals were most unhappy to be driven into their counter bore and I ended up spoiling two in the attempt.This means that I can only do this end of the tie rod today until more seals arrive.
At least this will give me time to work out how to remove the steering ram pin. My thoughts at the moment revolve round drilling and tapping it and using a slide hammer. It's a compromise between using a large thread size that will have the strength but weaken the pin in the event that I can't get it out or using a smaller thread that leaves plenty of material in the pin but may not be strong enough for the job !
awemawson:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on February 03, 2022, 08:20:58 AM ---Try changing the title by removing the "Project 9JCB....." portion of the offside video as a test.
If the hits are still disproportionate I'd say it simply comes up first in play order (as well as here in the thread), and the majority are not interested enough after seeing it to follow up with the second. Also check your stats and see how many people finish the first video as opposed to leaving it before the end. That would tell you if the title of the first one was generalized and therefore not well matched to the content. A viewer who is there mistakenly for a tie rod problem on his Prius will not follow up with more excavator wear videos.
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Oddly the views have almost equalised Steve having made no alterations to the titles :scratch:
They are sitting at something like 645 & 680 each and it still deeply puzzles me why so many people have viewed them. I just use Youtube as a way of sharing content (mainly) on this forum - I'm not running a 'channel' and really don't care how many hits they get, but it intrigues me !
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