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Recent content by Kimo

  1. Kimo

    Beer Money to First Person to Figure This Out!

    Big thanks to Jimbo for unraveling the ridiculousness of this infernal machine. $100 straight to your beer fund buddy! Too much unnecessary junk designed to fail. JCB's lack of knowledge, support and utter indifference makes the their equipment garbage. This 400 hour machine will go straight...
  2. Kimo

    Beer Money to First Person to Figure This Out!

    Thanks Steve, joystick wires and hoses are all in good shape. Joystick moves the machine.
  3. Kimo

    Beer Money to First Person to Figure This Out!

    JCB 180 Robot Skid Steer - Regular motion quit. Boom works fine but machine barely moves. Used to do this on rare occasion then kick in after wobbling stick around or operating for a bit. Now it is always in limp. Feels like a valve or solenoid failing. Dump solenoid seems to be working...
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    JCB DEAD STICK no motion

    Is there Anyone Anywhere who knows Anything about these infernal machines???
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    JCB DEAD STICK no motion

    JCB 180 Robot skid steer. Boom and curl work fine, but left stick is dead, won't move forward or back. It did this the other day briefly while working where all of the sudden it would barely creep either way, then just cleared up after a minute and ran fine. Acted up again a bit later, now it's...
  6. Kimo

    JCB 180T No Drive

    Hey Rob, I have same issue, did you figure this out.
  7. Kimo

    CAT Pilot Controls DEAD.

    Thanks man, that identified the problem.
  8. Kimo

    sevice manuals

    Dont disagree with that. My issue was Cat selling digital files that they should simply disseminate freely as a courtesy for buying their stuff.
  9. Kimo

    CAT Pilot Controls DEAD.

    6TL01051
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    CAT Pilot Controls DEAD.

    Thank you gentlemen. How do I test this thing? Can it be circumvented?
  11. Kimo

    CAT Pilot Controls DEAD.

    CAT M312 pilot control fail. OK, here we go again... Working along minding my business and pilot controls just quit. As I'm using it, dead stick. Boom is stuck extended in the air. I still have drive and auxiliary on joysticks but otherwise dead controls. No swing, no boom, stick or bucket. It...
  12. Kimo

    Anyone know what this is?

    Starter and alternator are on another fuse. They're operational.
  13. Kimo

    sevice manuals

    Wow! That is absolutely criminal.
  14. Kimo

    sevice manuals

    Looking for Cat m312 service manual.
  15. Kimo

    Anyone know what this is?

    This is like a old made up comedy bit...except for the comedy part. Here's the chain of events... I had a small leak coming from turntable, no other leaks or issues. Since hydraulic fluid cost $50 a gallon here, I thought it prudent to stop the leak. So I pulled and resealed swing motor. No more...
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