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    Michigan 175B

    Hey couple things the tourge converters are differant for cummins and detroit that secound loader has way more than 5800 hours on it who knows when and how many times the hour meter was changed or not working Check the center pin huge issue with those if you keep them ajusted there great but...
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    dresser td 20g and 15e anybody have opiions

    defantly avoid any thing with a IH motor parts are getting almost impossible.
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    action compaction wheel teardown

    Bearing is out has anybody had one of the larger ones apart looks like theres an inner shaft that comes out with the outer wheel or like some do you have to cut the outer wheel off.
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    Changing loyalties

    One thing ill tell you about these forums. opinions are like you know what. got a guy making bold statments about pump life on one page and on another is cluless about changing pins and bushings on a bucket. whew. Talk to other owners in your area there are bad dealers for everthing.
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    cat d6b broken track link

    QUIKTRAX had it punch out 2 pins press the link together then install link with pins its pretty common to replace a broken link or like he said if there wore enough just take out the broken one and no it wont pull yo one side with a shorter track.
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    Michigan 75C

    if its the drive gear there should be fiber gear teeth you can fish out the bottom of the flywheel housing pulled a hundred converters on clarks to change that gear
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    Komatsu WA600

    High lift boom also obviosly.
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    Track Slack?

    turn to the side power the track off the ground about an inch plus from the bottom of the middle rollar to the top of the rail
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    TD 8G Torque Converter temp running hot

    You said its running Hotter than you think is should. as long asits not in the red its ok. couple thing push in a lower gear oil level not over full. stall it out get it hot put in netrial run at hi rpm does the temp drop back to normal in a couple min if not after 5 min you have a proplem
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    Only in America...

    Leave it CNN not to know the differance between a man lift and a crane
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    Payloader

    Ive worked on a 400 hough 12 yrd loader a customer had 20 yrs ago had a 475B mishigan several IH 560s old TD 25 must have repaired the track links 40 times on it. stuff was beat bad finaly sold out new company scraped all of it bought new machines.
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    1958 Austin Western headed for scrap

    I remeber tring to find parts 30 years ago for an old AW diff i think we got one from isreal finaly out of an old miltary grader.
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    Michigan 475C in Action

    Funny set up sevrial 475s 380s up there climax moly they all had detroits in them nice place shop sat at 1300 ft still work for the same company worked on lots clark equipment my dad worked for the same company he spent alot of time up there. trying to think of the clark rep in our area. lived...
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    Clarke/Michigan 210 H (Ritchies auction)

    I acculy went to factory school on those in about 81 they were origanly hancock before mishigan bought them out.
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    Michigan 475C in Action

    had a pedal for fwd and one for reverse 2 speeds you could go full speed in forward step down on the reverse pedel that thing would come to a stop and start backwards with out making asingle klunking sound but was hard as hell the finals we did sevrial tests with it drawbar tests remeber...
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