Vdubluv82
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Hi everyone, I'm Hodge
I found your forum trying to fix my excavator and saw lots of knowledge and people helping each other and thought y'all might be a good place to see if someone here might have an idea on whats going on with my machine.
little back story.... I bought this machine to start a small land clearing project and company. I'm a veteran and had a small project to do, and so did a few neighbors and friends but got some crazy quotes. So I did what every Marine would do and bought his own machine that was waayyyyy over sized lmao. With the intent of leasing it/ keeping it working to help other veterans stay employed doing jobs for other veterans who couldn't afford the prices we were getting quoted. Part of this involved hiring a Veteran to move it..... I already knew the machine tracked a bit weak and told him this multiple times. He told me he wanted to side load it on his trailer, i told him he could try once or twice and if it wouldn't work he needed to load it properly. (Now is a good time to mention I was a heavy hauler for the Marine Corps and hauled over 3 million pounds overseas alone in heavy equipment, so im not a stranger to this and how its done.) well he slid my machine off his trailer 4-6 times, kicked my tracks off, did a bunch of other damage and almost killed my self and the seller before i finally kicked him off the property (before people ask why i didn't do it sooner, he out weighed me by 200 lbs and i was trying to be patent with him, They out numbered me 2-1, until someone else arrived to back me up) so moving on from the back story the problems i;m having now that its on the property....
I was able to pay the seller to get the machine back together to have someone else transport it the 3 hours to my property. But now the issue is, it feels like the brakes are always stuck on and while trying to fix that i have lost the swing. It is a complete farm machine and has a cummins swap in it, so some of the wiring is a little weird. it want to bog constantly but i know the motor makes plenty of power. when i test drove the machine it was great. it would lift its self straight up no issue, tracked fine and moved with out bogging. it needs the fluid changed, it looks like milk, but i just cant for the life of me figure out whats happened. I have all the service manuals and the main fuse for the brakes and swing does NOT have power, my power probe sense a fault in the circuit but im also not use to 24v
I found your forum trying to fix my excavator and saw lots of knowledge and people helping each other and thought y'all might be a good place to see if someone here might have an idea on whats going on with my machine.
little back story.... I bought this machine to start a small land clearing project and company. I'm a veteran and had a small project to do, and so did a few neighbors and friends but got some crazy quotes. So I did what every Marine would do and bought his own machine that was waayyyyy over sized lmao. With the intent of leasing it/ keeping it working to help other veterans stay employed doing jobs for other veterans who couldn't afford the prices we were getting quoted. Part of this involved hiring a Veteran to move it..... I already knew the machine tracked a bit weak and told him this multiple times. He told me he wanted to side load it on his trailer, i told him he could try once or twice and if it wouldn't work he needed to load it properly. (Now is a good time to mention I was a heavy hauler for the Marine Corps and hauled over 3 million pounds overseas alone in heavy equipment, so im not a stranger to this and how its done.) well he slid my machine off his trailer 4-6 times, kicked my tracks off, did a bunch of other damage and almost killed my self and the seller before i finally kicked him off the property (before people ask why i didn't do it sooner, he out weighed me by 200 lbs and i was trying to be patent with him, They out numbered me 2-1, until someone else arrived to back me up) so moving on from the back story the problems i;m having now that its on the property....
I was able to pay the seller to get the machine back together to have someone else transport it the 3 hours to my property. But now the issue is, it feels like the brakes are always stuck on and while trying to fix that i have lost the swing. It is a complete farm machine and has a cummins swap in it, so some of the wiring is a little weird. it want to bog constantly but i know the motor makes plenty of power. when i test drove the machine it was great. it would lift its self straight up no issue, tracked fine and moved with out bogging. it needs the fluid changed, it looks like milk, but i just cant for the life of me figure out whats happened. I have all the service manuals and the main fuse for the brakes and swing does NOT have power, my power probe sense a fault in the circuit but im also not use to 24v
