Back when:
Scanned picture of our old 8230... Mother in Law took it... still on lowboy, just after we got back from a fire. Our first truck tractor too... A model KW.
I built all the screens from expanded metal... not the best choice of material,
but we didn't have a convenient source of crusher screen.
A friend saw me walking it down an old 2 track one day and said it looked like
a house going down the road...:laugh... they
were kind of a brute...
Piston crown broke off one time, and we didn't know what was wrong...
made a little noise on start up, but ran fine once started... 2 cycle has a power stroke on every down stroke and that keep the crown pushed against the rest of the piston... It did finally hammer the head and must have gotten
a little crooked and just slightly bent a con. rod.
Got a re-man. head, new piston and rod, new sleeve for that hole... put it all
back together in the woods, and it ran fine... finally traded it in for a new
1150 Case.
It really wasn't that bad of a dozer... just a hair too big for our needs... it did
make
noise though...
OCR