Man you should film the oil changes! When a flood of greens water comes rushing out of the pan, it is super dramatic, and ups the difficulty level on the project. Then you can produce a few laconic statements about how things are looking grim now, but that you still have faith in the old girl. There is also something extremely satisfying about watching oil changes on old machines, the more it is needed, the better content it is :D
👍👌👏 Sometimes buying cheap is paying expensive in the end. Hope that you will have (respectively have had) luck with this one. Best regards luck and health to all of you.
I just found your Channel.....I'm 70, so been around a bit....I've Never seen any Mfg. shop take any care of Forklifts....not even changing the oil.....My last job I was Maint. Mech-Elec...so I worked on the Forkies...12K# Hyster and a 10K# Cat....they both had driver tires/wheels a LOT bigger than these.....solid tires for indoor use like these, but they ran them outside in the rain, and 3-4" puddles...brakes were pretty bad...everything else was about like this unit.
Some shops have a contract with a dealer to do service work and they do a decent job. The shops that supposedly do it themselves are just like you say. I worked in a truck repair shop for about 4 years and I never saw them change the oil on the forklift. But to be fair, we probably didn't use it more than an hour a week, so it might not have been than bad for it.
...Well, the last 'shop' was a high production HVAC ductwork ....very busy. They had 4 small 3,500# Mitsubishi Forklifts that were leased, so they had to have service contract every 3 months...those got hammered pretty bad...2 were called back by Dealer for excessive wear/damage....the Cat and Hyster were never added to the service deal.....I was limited to oil/filter changes, due to the shop owners not wanting to spend any $$ on routine maintenance.... When I went to work there, the Hyster had one steering axle wheel with no rubber tire left...just bare metal......it took me months to just get a new $90 'tire' pressed on there..... The Cat and Hyster were running most all day....all 4 years I was there... Owners attitude was "run it until it breaks, then fix it"....however, most of the shop machinery was as old/or older...than me....
Drop a slant 6 in the thing it will run forever lol!! no those continental flathead engines in them forklifts are really good and can take a beating. they can run non stop and never have a issue unless it's something like a head gasket or something. I use to maintain forklifts at my one job I had back in the day and those things would run 24/7 with only shut down on breaks, refuel or maintenance other then that they were running. the place I worked at had a couple gasoline trucks for outside and I think it was 10 on propane most were nissan a few Clarke and 2 Hysters
All engines that run on propane has to have hardened seats or you will burn the valves right out because the propane runs so much hotter than gasoline. They run so much cleaner too the oil on a propane engine will still look new when it's time to change it unlike gasoline that will be black as the ace of spades
Is the Model of this Clark forklift a C50, C60 , Does it have Clark ID Plate on it ? A 6cycl normally is in a 5,000 - 10,000 lbs.cap. I use to work on Clarks , 40 yrs. C50 is a 5000 lbs cap machine. Clark is the Cadillac of Forklifts. They made the first forklift in America.
These came originally with points. The distributor shafts were known to wear and you basically had to grab a BFH and just knock the distributor off the head and start chiseling. The replacement was probably a perlux or pertronix replacement distributor or conversion kit installed.
right about remam (junk) and overpriced , got a 4.3 gm reman for one of my lifts put it in and knocked after hot , pulled it down the crankshaft had a grove cut in it where the thust bearing runs , so no one ever checked the end play ,
