Kaiser Jacob
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Hey guys. I bought an bobcat e80 excavator with 10k hours. Every night in the first week of work I would read part of the 800 manual pages. So i get to this part where it says i should check swing motor oil level and I didn
Thank you for clarification. It will be very hard to fix the stick situation since i don't have acess to the parts measurements nor new original parts.It's not the swing motor. He was technically right, the motor is lubed by the hydraulic oil passing through it.
What you are looking at is the swing gearbox.
Fix the dipstick situation so you don't overfill it, and then you can keep track of the leakage if any. That is the first step. Don't assume it is messed up without evidence.
Fill it to the proper level, keep running it, then drain it out and check for metal. Send a sample out for analysis if you want.
We have very few bobcat dealers in Brazil (the market is dominated by Yanmar, Cat and komatsu. Brands like kubota doesn't even exist here). I'm trying to talk with one of them but since the E80 model is not fabricated since 2014 it's not easy task.you know for sure you can't get parts? If you have the serial number you can probably get the replacement stick and tube coming from somewhere.
The mannual barely mention this section of the swing structure ("you should check the oil and fill to the stick mark" and thats it. And it's the mechanich manual not user manual). I'll keep diggin.There ought to be a Parts Manual for your excavator kicking around on the internet somewhere surely.?