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    Final Drive Oil Analysis

    I take your points, one should take care of things, indeed. And I'm not entitled to support from Caterpillar as one only on the grave side of machinery. I'm not in a position to pay retail, and I can't expect something of value for nothing. One could dream that servers filled with information on...
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    Final Drive Oil Analysis

    Man, amen and we're livin' parallel struggles seems like. I just saw a couple of springs that might help with the blade float sensitivity, for a mere $165 each. If I was czar of a 'product' (which will never happen) I'd first put the CFO up on a coat hook and then instruct him that 'all manuals...
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    Final Drive Oil Analysis

    Thanks all for ongoing discussion on this, albeit to some extent redundant. I'm wrestling with similar issues described some here: https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/threads/304cr-final-drive-alarmist-oil-sampling.106987/ ...especially the cleaning out of mud and crud from the seal area Nige...
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    304CR Final Drive Alarmist Oil Sampling

    Yeah, several AM examples out there do seem to have holes in them, that I thought were covered only by rubber inserts. It makes zero sense adding those of course, but just as an academic discussion. I've never personally retrofitted, rubber to steel or vice versa, but if I find some $3000 in a...
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    304CR Final Drive Alarmist Oil Sampling

    Hi. After studying your circles and arrows here, and after digging the mud away from the duo seal area, I wondered if this is yet another minor reason to consider steel track, which I've wanted anyway, for a number of reasons. While looking at the mud forced through the sprocket 'cut-outs' in...
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    304CR Final Drive Alarmist Oil Sampling

    I don't know the chemical make-up of mouse ****, but maybe that's what the lab calls 'contamination...'
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    304CR Final Drive Alarmist Oil Sampling

    Ha, right, fire or ice, chose your weapon!
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    304CR Final Drive Alarmist Oil Sampling

    Man, that's all good and interesting to know, thank you. I guess it's why they call maintenance a regiment. I was just setting up a culvert in some dang sticky and soggy clay that is somehow simultaneously quicksand and epoxy.
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    304CR Final Drive Alarmist Oil Sampling

    Right, I see the logic here also. I hope I can find a way to get the muck off of there, which sometimes accumulates with every travel. We're in a remote place with endless fallen trees and other constant 'emergencies' and this machine is is our dog-send recourse device. I may have neglected to...
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    304CR Final Drive Alarmist Oil Sampling

    OK, yes, thank you for the detail. I did not add anything to the oil, but I bet Redline did. I see the logic in your cleanout technique, which seems intuitive to me also. I have not pressure-washed the area personally, though most of the machine's life was lived without me. It is the case that...
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    304CR Final Drive Alarmist Oil Sampling

    thanks y'all, helpful information. Here's the actual reports:
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    304CR Final Drive Alarmist Oil Sampling

    I don't want to put too fine a point on it or question the years of experience represented here, but this CAT publication for the (Japanese) NAD 304CR, "SEBU7677-08" that they resent me really points in the other direction, for our temperatures out here, 14˚F - 122˚F, suggesting a pretty thick...
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    304CR Final Drive Alarmist Oil Sampling

    Yeah, that seems to be a source of confusion too; Cat just sent me this OMM statement after reporting the heavy viscosity... (?!?) I'm definitely up for the 'relax' - thanks!
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    304CR Final Drive Alarmist Oil Sampling

    Hello friends, Maybe y'all can give me your opinions about recourse, in the ugly discoveries in my 304CR Final Drives. Back story: 2006 machine, NAD04265, 4800 hours, no service history, 'normal' general significant abuse, etc. No travel issues in operation. When I acquired the machine I...
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    Issues throwing 400mm rubber track off 304 in stationary turns

    Hello all - A coupla times I've lost the right rubber track on a 2006 304CR mini, while in stationary turn, full forward one track, full reverse the other, though the adjuster is about as pumped as I can get it, the track is never hanging less than about 5/8" from the center rollers. Anybody...
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