SheldonZ28
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Hey Everyone,
Not sure if "build threads" are a thing for equipment, but being a long time car guy & growing up on the 'ol forums... Figured I would document my '99 Case 9010B rehab on here.
I bought 6.5 Acres in Parry Sound, ON in late 2021 as something I figured I would spend 5+ years as a weekend warrior chipping away at a cottage/house build. The lot, while a nice size, is a bit of a irregular shape having only 78' of road frontage as a single lot that then owns all the land behind a bunch of other lots. With this kind of shape, and some of the difficult to work with terrain, the driveway is going to be about 750' long and wind back through the forest to a high spot where the house will be built. There is some off angle edges, a wet spot, and some other terrain that will take a reasonable bit of work to build up for a nice driveway foundation. With the amount of work needed, I had figured as soon as I bought the lot, eventually I would need to buy myself an excavator to do all the land work with, and then if I figure I don't want it after, I can re sell it rather than paying a crap ton of rental bills. Plus, owning the machine allows me to keep chipping away on nice weather weekends, and not having to stress about taking time off work to be sure I am getting the full use of a rental machine.
Picked this machine up about a month ago, and got it for what I feel was a fantastic price (well under $30k CAD) with the hour meter reading a bit over 12,000hrs.
I knew when I bought the machine that it would need a bit of love prior to being delivered to the lot. I am a General Machinist in the Space & Defense industry, and have been working on engines/cars/trucks/anything that burns fuel & has DC power since I was a little kid helping my dad, so I am not afraid of digging in to anything on the machine. The main thing that is entirely new to me is diagnostics of hydraulics.
I had the machine delivered to a friend of mine's lot where he does work with the mining industry, and got to work on it. The machine ran great, but had an issue where after it warmed up, it would bog down when being pushed. It is missing some glass, and has a few war wounds around the outside of it. The interior is as clean as a machine thats been exposed to the weather can be, it was previously owned by a pool company who mainly had it working their yard for the last 10 years. As far as I can tell, its been relatively well cared for, though I am sure no one was that stressed about its maintenance intervals.
After a couple weekends working on it (its about 2.5hrs away from me at my friends yard in Huntsville, ON, though he is only an hour from my lot so intention was for it to be closer to Parry Sound) this is my completed service work:
- All filters replaced (fuel, hydraulic, air, engine, nephron etc)
- Drain & re fill the hydraulic tank
- Drain and re fill the fuel tank
- Engine oil change
- Replace fuel lines
- Make cardboard templates to cut new lexan windows
- Search the machine for leaks
There is some damage on the cab that I really don't see how it happened unless a dump truck or something backed in to it? I suppose people get creative in how they damage equipment. Trying to not get carried away repairing things that don't matter, as it will quickly end up with having more in to the machine than I could ever get back out of it, and it does not need to be what my project cars are lol.
Her first day making it out to the yard
Very lucky that my best friend has a colossal shop and let me crawl it inside to do some work on it on the cold days
First bit of digging in through all the filters. I found the return filter had completely imploded, it looked very rough. A few different heavy equipment techs had advised me to replace the breather and noted they had seen this issue on quite a few Case 90X0B series machines
This was day two of getting to do some work on it, trying to drag as much as I can up with me each time as 2.5hr is a long drive to realize you needed a different tool. Switched it over to an electric lifting pump system and blocked off the original piston pump and voila.... all my bogging down issues went away. Looks like the original lift pump was not up to the task. One thing out of the way
Unfortunately, as I solved my lift pump issue, while the machine was warming up, I discovered a pretty hefty leak from the stick cylinder. Definitely not something I can ignore, so I ordered a seal kit and when I go up next I will borrow my buddies Cat 320 to assist me in pulling this off. Another friend of mine I did my apprenticeship with is a hydraulic guy so he is going to re pack it for me with the seal kit.
I have been making templates for the windows from Cardboard and then cutting them out of Lexan for new ones. I am choosing to tint them to protect the Lexan from UV damage, and given I will probably never operate the machine with the door closed or looking through the windows, the 25% tint is good with me. It looks darker than it feels to look through from the cab. For the upper front window I am going to have to machine some rollers and fabricate new brackets to hold the panel to retain the slide up function. This is the last window to make, I have the other 3 done now. I bought some special adhesive used for glueing in boat windows, but it suggests using it when its above 15C so I will have to wait for warmer weather to install those. Fit seems good though!
One thing I want to fit to the machine is a cage for the front to protect from anything I might inadvertently throw at myself. I have maybe 100 hours of time on an excavator, but most of that was levelling land on a rental machine at my parents place. I am comfortable on the controls, and respect the capabilities of the machine, but now that I will be moving trees and breaking up granite, I don't want to learn the hard way. This is literally racking mesh, its 3/16" wire diameter and while a big hit will damage it, it should keep me relatively safe. I have a few so I can rebuild it if I hit it, and it should be not bad to look through once its painted black. This was just a lay up to it to make sure the size will work out
Another issue with the machine, the instrument panel was cracked and had leaked water in to the center LCD panel. Unfortunately... the center one is the one that you need to use for diagnostics as it uses the clock to display sensor values or failure modes. These panels are relatively expensive (as far as I am concerned) to replace as a full unit. I tore the display down to go through it, and applied some head to the LCD, I managed to make a pretty significant improvement in it but not quite as good as I hoped. Thankfully there is lots of interesting parts available for its sister machine, the Sumitomo SH120, and one of those are the LCD panels inside the assembly, so for $120 I ordered those and will install them when they arrive hopefully in the next couple weeks. I have since split the front clear plastic cover to clean out the crack and re bond it, and will have to fix up the paint in it so it looks new again
Anyway, thats all for now. Hoping to go up again within a week or so to pull the cylinder and get that out for repair. Next from there is to determine what all the hydraulic fittings are as I need to replace all the hoses on the boom.
I will keep some updates coming as I get it going!
Not sure if "build threads" are a thing for equipment, but being a long time car guy & growing up on the 'ol forums... Figured I would document my '99 Case 9010B rehab on here.
I bought 6.5 Acres in Parry Sound, ON in late 2021 as something I figured I would spend 5+ years as a weekend warrior chipping away at a cottage/house build. The lot, while a nice size, is a bit of a irregular shape having only 78' of road frontage as a single lot that then owns all the land behind a bunch of other lots. With this kind of shape, and some of the difficult to work with terrain, the driveway is going to be about 750' long and wind back through the forest to a high spot where the house will be built. There is some off angle edges, a wet spot, and some other terrain that will take a reasonable bit of work to build up for a nice driveway foundation. With the amount of work needed, I had figured as soon as I bought the lot, eventually I would need to buy myself an excavator to do all the land work with, and then if I figure I don't want it after, I can re sell it rather than paying a crap ton of rental bills. Plus, owning the machine allows me to keep chipping away on nice weather weekends, and not having to stress about taking time off work to be sure I am getting the full use of a rental machine.
Picked this machine up about a month ago, and got it for what I feel was a fantastic price (well under $30k CAD) with the hour meter reading a bit over 12,000hrs.
I knew when I bought the machine that it would need a bit of love prior to being delivered to the lot. I am a General Machinist in the Space & Defense industry, and have been working on engines/cars/trucks/anything that burns fuel & has DC power since I was a little kid helping my dad, so I am not afraid of digging in to anything on the machine. The main thing that is entirely new to me is diagnostics of hydraulics.
I had the machine delivered to a friend of mine's lot where he does work with the mining industry, and got to work on it. The machine ran great, but had an issue where after it warmed up, it would bog down when being pushed. It is missing some glass, and has a few war wounds around the outside of it. The interior is as clean as a machine thats been exposed to the weather can be, it was previously owned by a pool company who mainly had it working their yard for the last 10 years. As far as I can tell, its been relatively well cared for, though I am sure no one was that stressed about its maintenance intervals.
After a couple weekends working on it (its about 2.5hrs away from me at my friends yard in Huntsville, ON, though he is only an hour from my lot so intention was for it to be closer to Parry Sound) this is my completed service work:
- All filters replaced (fuel, hydraulic, air, engine, nephron etc)
- Drain & re fill the hydraulic tank
- Drain and re fill the fuel tank
- Engine oil change
- Replace fuel lines
- Make cardboard templates to cut new lexan windows
- Search the machine for leaks
There is some damage on the cab that I really don't see how it happened unless a dump truck or something backed in to it? I suppose people get creative in how they damage equipment. Trying to not get carried away repairing things that don't matter, as it will quickly end up with having more in to the machine than I could ever get back out of it, and it does not need to be what my project cars are lol.
Her first day making it out to the yard
Very lucky that my best friend has a colossal shop and let me crawl it inside to do some work on it on the cold days
First bit of digging in through all the filters. I found the return filter had completely imploded, it looked very rough. A few different heavy equipment techs had advised me to replace the breather and noted they had seen this issue on quite a few Case 90X0B series machines
This was day two of getting to do some work on it, trying to drag as much as I can up with me each time as 2.5hr is a long drive to realize you needed a different tool. Switched it over to an electric lifting pump system and blocked off the original piston pump and voila.... all my bogging down issues went away. Looks like the original lift pump was not up to the task. One thing out of the way
Unfortunately, as I solved my lift pump issue, while the machine was warming up, I discovered a pretty hefty leak from the stick cylinder. Definitely not something I can ignore, so I ordered a seal kit and when I go up next I will borrow my buddies Cat 320 to assist me in pulling this off. Another friend of mine I did my apprenticeship with is a hydraulic guy so he is going to re pack it for me with the seal kit.
I have been making templates for the windows from Cardboard and then cutting them out of Lexan for new ones. I am choosing to tint them to protect the Lexan from UV damage, and given I will probably never operate the machine with the door closed or looking through the windows, the 25% tint is good with me. It looks darker than it feels to look through from the cab. For the upper front window I am going to have to machine some rollers and fabricate new brackets to hold the panel to retain the slide up function. This is the last window to make, I have the other 3 done now. I bought some special adhesive used for glueing in boat windows, but it suggests using it when its above 15C so I will have to wait for warmer weather to install those. Fit seems good though!
One thing I want to fit to the machine is a cage for the front to protect from anything I might inadvertently throw at myself. I have maybe 100 hours of time on an excavator, but most of that was levelling land on a rental machine at my parents place. I am comfortable on the controls, and respect the capabilities of the machine, but now that I will be moving trees and breaking up granite, I don't want to learn the hard way. This is literally racking mesh, its 3/16" wire diameter and while a big hit will damage it, it should keep me relatively safe. I have a few so I can rebuild it if I hit it, and it should be not bad to look through once its painted black. This was just a lay up to it to make sure the size will work out
Another issue with the machine, the instrument panel was cracked and had leaked water in to the center LCD panel. Unfortunately... the center one is the one that you need to use for diagnostics as it uses the clock to display sensor values or failure modes. These panels are relatively expensive (as far as I am concerned) to replace as a full unit. I tore the display down to go through it, and applied some head to the LCD, I managed to make a pretty significant improvement in it but not quite as good as I hoped. Thankfully there is lots of interesting parts available for its sister machine, the Sumitomo SH120, and one of those are the LCD panels inside the assembly, so for $120 I ordered those and will install them when they arrive hopefully in the next couple weeks. I have since split the front clear plastic cover to clean out the crack and re bond it, and will have to fix up the paint in it so it looks new again
Anyway, thats all for now. Hoping to go up again within a week or so to pull the cylinder and get that out for repair. Next from there is to determine what all the hydraulic fittings are as I need to replace all the hoses on the boom.
I will keep some updates coming as I get it going!
