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    Hitachi ZX350-3 Poor Boom cylinder performance

    Hi All Im sorry for opening this thread again but unfortunately 4 months later my excavator is still causing me issues after multiple fitters have attempted repairs Below is the report from Htachi Connected laptop and MPDr, opened troubleshooting program to retrieve fault codes...
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    Hitachi ZX350-3 Poor Boom cylinder performance

    Hi All I have a Hitachi ZX350-3 Excavator with 12,000 Hours It has an issue with the boom performance When working the lever for the boom cylinders it is slow and does not perform as normal , if you try to lift the tracks it makes an effort and then stops but if you use both the boom lever...
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    Caterpillar 336D hydraulics are slow

    Hi All Posting again and I appreciate all the help Iv gotten on this forum Have a Cat336D (WRK00200) with 16,000 hours Working perfectly until 2 days ago the hydraulics starting working very slow after a few hours into shift on all hydraulic functions If switch off machine and let it cool...
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    Cat 980H No tilt or lift

    Ok my bad I thought it was the magnets held the levers in position not a solenoid Will get all this checked It’s not working on either tilt and lift kick out
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    Cat 980H No tilt or lift

    Sorry yes mean the return to dig or auto level No the calibration went through first time and successfully on every option There’s no fault codes in active or logged Il check the duty cycle but I’m almost positive it’s changing on ET
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    Cat 980H No tilt or lift

    Hi All I followed a previous thread here and bled the pilot pump of air in the oil , took some time but all functions returned and are now working, calibrated my levers and linkage sensors and it goes all good Only issue now is my kickback wont calibrate no matter what we do Changed switchs ...
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    Cat 980H No tilt or lift

    Nige Yes we can see on the ET status group that the implement lock switch changes from lock to unlocked each time we flick the switch It also shows it when we lock the implement to do the cab lever calibrations
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    Cat 980H No tilt or lift

    Hi Nige MHG00839 We have ET but not fully sure if it will allow us doing a product report Sorry when I say resealed I mean the tilt and lift cylinders were taken to a engineering shop to get fully rebuilt to go back into service
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    Cat 980H No tilt or lift

    Hi All We have a Caterpillar 980H that suddenly has no lift or tilt, and it feels like no pressure at brake pedal Quick background: Loader was hassle free for the 12 months we have owned it but after a job finished went into workshop to get a lift and a tilt sensor resealed which was...
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    Volvo Ec290BLC Won’t rev up

    Hi all Thanks for your help We replaced the main fuel filter housing and the machine is back working perfectly
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    Volvo Ec290BLC Won’t rev up

    Hello We have a Volvo 29 ton excavator with a D7 engine I believe Middle of shift it just lost power It starts and idles for a bit but when you go to rev it up it’s like it’s starved for diesel and cuts out The odd time it won’t even idle it just starts and cuts out But it starts everytime as...
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