Fixing The Boom Lift's 4 Wheel Drive System and Other Stuff. 

I hope you enjoyed this video, but I KNOW you will enjoy next week's video! It will be the car giveaway! Join me on patreon for early access, as I will be posting it very soon. www.patreon.com/FarmCraft101. Have an awesome weekend everybody! For those wondering, McClinch is just the name of a company that owned the lift in the past. McClung is the name of a mechanic who I frequently bounce ideas off of, and he has given me lots of advice on fixing this lift. We have joked that it should say McClung instead of McClinch because of all the help he has given me. Thanks Mr. McClung!

Thank you sir. I've been living in the city for 20 years. I was born in the North woods of the upper peninsula of Michigan. AKA the middle of freaking nowhere. Moved to Chicago for work, and now I'm in South Florida in the urban sprawl down there. Your videos made me realize how much I missed living in the country. And I'm moving back. Going back home to my roots, and getting the hell out of Florida. Out of the city. Where I can do stuff like this anytime I want on my own land. 6 months of being a farm craft subscriber convinced me to make a positive change in my life. So thank you

One of the very best RU-vid channels! Watching all these things get repaired/upgraded in such an in-depth and entertaining way is properly interesting. 😎👍🏻

The coolant sensor to the ECM is probably for timing advance.

As a Boom Technician in Canada, this video intrigued me. I have worked on this very model here. Good job getting the engine and drive problems figured out! Over here, there needs to be an annual factory inspection as well as an engineer's inspection and certification. The engineer inspects all of the welds, railings and frame for damage or breakage. My job is to perform a mechanical inspection and correct anything that does not work as intended. Your boom chains do not need to be replaced unless they are damaged or stretched more than 3%. That being said, it's a lot of work to go back in to replace them later on. If the chains are okay, soak them in diesel to loosen them up and clean them up. If your wear pads look worn out, replace them, do not add more shim plates. Give the extend/retract cylinder as much love as you can, you'll probably only remove it once. At full extension, the boom looks like a bowed fishing pole. This is normal and engineered for this. I'll give you a sub and keep watching your progress.

Every time you turn a simple brass adapter or bushing on your lathe instead of running out and buying one, an angel gets it's wings. 😊

Don't you hate it when you misplace your can of Leverage? Always enjoy the process. Thanks, John.

Oh I can't wait for the full boom teardown, that is going to be super interesting to see. Love the content man!

This guy will not be deterred by anything! He’s like a bulldog when he sets out to do something. He is the personification of tenacity.

When Nikola Teslas face popped up when discussing your hatred for wiring diagrams I laughed for 10 minutes

"If your butt depends on it, at least make sure it ain't broke." Love it!

I wish you were my neighbor, I would have you fix or tell me how to fix all my broken things! You’re my hero!

4:20 really weird how the Text of the Sticker on the Door is changing from McCLING to McClung haha

John, please load more videos. You are a gifted content creator, narrator and critical thinker. We need more men like you!

Best channel going…mechanics, electrical,construction among others ALL with financial common sense in mind. Bravo

LOVED the discussion of the boom lift at the end - you're absolutely right in tearing that thing down, I basically yelled "WHAT" when I heard "every 2 years" 😲for a complete boom teardown and inspection. Listen I'm a fan of OSHA and general safety and health standards in the sense that they keep corporations from taking advantage of workers too much but that seems like a lot of work even to me 😂 Also absolutely loved the outro music 👍👍👍

The quickest Amazon delivery we get in the mountains is 6-7 days. That hex head jig is the coolest thing I’ve ever saw

Do you know why this channel is so great and channels like it? I think it is because some of us get the satisfaction of fixing something, learning along the way, etc. all while sitting nice and warm and probably eating a snack as well 😂😂 So basically all the good stuff without the frustration terrible working angles, dents in the wallet, etc. Gotta love it! Keep up the good work. You are so inspiring and an excellent teacher/explainer as well!

Thanks for popping up all the temperatures in celsius John. Much appreciated

You did okay with the Allen head drain screw, but just wanted to mention an old trick for stripped Allen head screws. Hammer in a slightly oversized Torx socket. The Torks has six flutes and digs right in. Then use a breaker bar.

Competence? You are gift sir! Thank you for your sense of humor, and all the great videos

Yes on more boom lift episodes, love your attention to detail.

I agree selfishly. I’m excited and can’t wait for this project.

Damn that thing just won’t stop with the repairs 😂 I’d like to see a fresh sticker on the bucket control panel please 😀

Ooooh! New FarmCraft video makes the weekend complete.

So it's settled, were gonna get the boom teardown! Yay!

The music at the end is definitely my favorite that you’ve used so far! The cans on the shelf was a good bit too. Made me laugh out loud. Thank you for providing such entertaining and educational content!

As we work on getting our homestead and farm up and running out here in east Texas, I just wanted to let you know I’ve been watching your channel for a good while at this point and it’s not only entertaining and educational, but a bit of an inspiration (just a little - don’t want your head getting any bigger). Thanks for sharing this with us all and looking forward to what’s next!

Really love your videos, they are very entertaining to watch. You have a great sense of humor. Also, THANK YOU for putting in the measurements the rest of the world uses when you are talking about degrees or distances. It keeps saving me the effort of looking it up. Greetings from The Netherlands.

Not a single Johnsson joke??🤔 Great content and looking forward to the teardown of the boom lift!

Upping your thumbnail game. I like that you made an arrow out of the boom.

It's a great day when I get notified of a new video. Thank you

I've been going through hell lately, and these videos are one of the few things that actually bring me any sort of joy anymore. So I want to say thank you, I really do appreciate the content 👍

Another video where I learned a couple of things. I have a tip for you. If you cut electrical tape instead of stretch/braking it, it won't come unwrapped over time. Yes rebuild the boom, I operated JLG's for many years and hear your concerns.

We had two boom lifts at the company I worked at. Retired now. We had inspections regularly. In 15 years that we had the lifts there was never a “tear down” of the boom mentioned by the inspectors. So it wasn’t done. Lubrication and PM was done but that’s it.

Yo, the can of leverage joke killed me! It's jokes like that and the pictures of seals that never fail to make me laugh. Ur humor is appreciated. Keep it up!

These videos are so awesome to me, I started working on aerial lifts in 1985. I have torn them down, totally rebuilt them. To see what you are going through just brings back so many great memories. Two of my best friends from that time have passed. We did everything together, it was awesome times.

Really big props to your skills. I think you are the first American YOutuber that i watch who knows ho to properly cut threads by hand. Almost everyone just straight sends the cutter and wonders why its breaking

Your getting closer to having a NEW machine one part at a time. But it's more fun to fix it yourself plus you learn an become an expert on that lift.

Got to laugh at your next day delivery by Amazon, I live in the highlands of Scotland and a few will not deliver to me, love your video content, keep them coming

A little maintenance goes a long way!

You're one of the best youtubers that i've ever descovered. Don't you ever dare to stop uploading haha

Cool beans John. Looking forward to seeing the boom job done. Tah rah rah boom de A! Great video thumbs up.

the whole series is very fun to watch, no nonsense at all. but when john hooks up that temp wire and with those tapes, im like, right, thats gonna work. lol

I really enjoy watching your videos. I was a maintenance man for Armour Food and Freightliner Trucks. And I enjoy watching everything you work on. Plus you go into detail and explain what your doing to us. Thanks for the videos.

The boom life, the gift that keeps giving!

28:21 🤣🤣 I appreciate the extra time and effort that went into this bit, well done!

Loved the "Click" sound while not using a torque wrench. I will use that one next time I am working with my machinist son, lol.

Click! Its my favorite part of the videos. I chuckle every time.

It was a bit funny seeing you reading the engine block temp using Fahrenheit. A temperature scale based on human body temperature. :D

The best part about working on something like you've been doing, is that you are now intimate with this machine and you know everything there is to know about it. When you are done with the boom you know that it'll never let you down. Something to be said for that. What a great piece of equipment, I'd like to have something like this for my farm or at least a decent 4wd scissor lift.

Oh, what I would give to have a wiring diagram that looked that good! I build custom cables and wiring harnesses for industrial customers. The diagrams I get range from charts to diagrams that are just silly. I kid you not, one customer sent us a "wiring diagram" that was a combination of a layout diagram and wiring diagram that was made in MS Paint at the last minute! That one took the production manager, the head engineer and myself a couple of hours to figure out what they were trying to do.

I absolutely love your approach to things, thoughts and sarcastic jokes about other stuff, from seals to horror wiring diagrams... Keep on, very interesting videos to enjoy. It's also a never ending story, when you ask people about something, you get always lots of contradictory anwers.. As you said, though, when it's your butt on the line, you better check to avoid troubles. I agree it's also fun to use equipment for (like in your espisode of combining a boom lift and a pond) a little less intended purposes although fun can fast escalate to big problems or even tragedy. You appear to be a wise man, so that will probably never happen.. nobody knows for sure. Keep on, cheers and do it right! There are priceless things in life. 😉👍

The time and effort you put into the leverage joke is awesome. I literally laughed out loud for 10 seconds. I own a small business with a dozer dump truck skid steer, tractor, a mini excavator. I can relate with so many things you do. And sometimes you wish there was a bottle of leverage, and it would happen just as you showed. Lmao!! Love the work you do. Thank you for sharing.

Coffee and a FarmCraft video make for a great Saturday morning

One of my favorite channels, great content! Except, this video didn't have enough Seal drops in it. :-)

Great decision. I have rebuilt many telescopic booms. Best of luck.

Ouch, a "reach around"? Your minds in the gutter I like it and it gets my "SEAL" of approval! Nice video by the way, I like the "funnels".

please do it. your educating all of us.

Wow! That hex jig is cool

Love the way farmers work. much respect for all that you know. I watched your CVT transmission content, both episodes. I find the skilled crafts very interesting. Liked.

John, I love the quirky jokes on the job ("leverage")... most people call them "Dad Jokes". I find them entertaining because you don't expect it. The content is awesome, love the videos, keep it up.

Watched this when you posted it but YT unmarked it because I had an adblocker. So I watched it again. Still a great video. I know I watched it from memory and the fact that I mark all your videos as liked.

Excellent interlude between repairs. Bon Fires are great. Fixing things is greater ! HaHaHa Good job John

I have to say. I do a lot of the same things you do as far as farm work. That being said, you inspire me, and I actually learn a lot from you. Keep up the good work. God bless you.

Yes I would fix it NOW... It might be a lot harder to fix after it fails and you recover from your injuries... Stay safe...

She is comin’ along nicely with all the “tender, loving, care” you are giving her. A nice caution-sign orange paint job should be the finale. (I don’t think I heard your 🤬 today)

From watching your videos I'm a little surprised the sender ground 'gotcha' but we all have our moments. Thanks for sharing.

Such a great channel. He deserves a lot more subs for sure. It's good informative content.. Plus the cows lol. We have 17 yearlings in the barn right now. It's always nice to see other moo critters.

I'm glad you were able to pull out. Almost had to marry that thing! And next time you have an issue with them hub plugs pull the wheel off, makes life so much easier!

Wow, how could you ever realize that the water temp sensor needed a ground wire without being a real deal GENIUS. I mean my God, this man should run for president.

I thought about the first sensor not having ground just because of the thread tape, but yeah if that pipe is plastic then it doesn't matter.

You're going to have a great damn Boom lift when you're done. I love how thorough you are when you need to be. If it was something that couldn't potentially kill you or your family I'd also agree with the people that say to leave it alone, but it's absolutely something that can kill you if it goes wrong. So I'm glad to see you are likely going to do it.

The labels on the torque, persistence..etc cans was hilarious! Also, at the first of the wiring diagram shots, the wiggle and spinning is exactly what happens to me when I look at one of those (nearly choked on my coffee in laughter when you did that) Anyway, Veery Nice work getting stuff fixed. BTW, you should paint over the JLG labels and put your own labels on it. Ask your audience for suggestions. Minesuggestion is ‘Up Up and Away”.

I actually laughed out loud (with you, not at you), at several different times during the video..., but the cans of "competence", "torque", etc. really made me laugh! The first thing I thought of was, "I gotta get me some jars of those!" Really appreciate your sense of humor, Brother! Looking forward to seeing your tear down & repairs on the Boom section. You & I both know that you'll find something that will need to be addressed on it.

Gotta love that one-wheel-peel. One-tire-fire.

Awesome job man. Y'all take care.

Agree with your logic that you best check the boom now, failing down the road during a job could be quite aggravating and you are not a patient man! 😉

Yes would really like to see you rebuild the bucket and make a cover for the bucket!!!!

I understand your concern , like you said your life depends on a assumption. Going to be an awesome job and video content ! 👍

Thanks for putting so much effort in these videos. ROFL with the SMA and ToT references!

Great content John...love a happy ending 🙌

I'm glad your bottle of "leverage" still had some in it. Please, check your bottle of "patience", if you have some to spare, please send some to me. My bottles of "ingenuity" and "precision" are good, but my patience is really low. Thanks! Great video, as usual.

With all your videos on this boom lift, I want to run out and buy one just to repair!! 😉. Thanks for the great content. And a quick side note, my 1988 Dodge W150 has 2 temperature sensors and 2 oil sending units. And like the boom lift one of each is very well hidden.

This is such a great channel! I love watching the videos you put out. To the boom repair project, I couldn’t agree more with the teardown and inspection. I came from the aerospace industry and “Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke” only applied to your letter opener. *ALL* of the machines that were used to make parts that went on airplanes were on a preventive maintenance schedule. Before this policy was implemented, the maintenance department joked that they were firemen, running around the shop, stomping out fires. After a PM program was developed and implemented, machine down time that interrupted workflow all but stopped. The gains in productivity were huge. If your butt depends on this thing to function properly, get it on a preventative maintenance schedule that works for you. (If you checked the boom in two years following your up coming teardown and it all looked great, go ahead and extend your PM time frame to every 3 or 4 years. Check it again in 3 years, if it’s all good, extend it out even further. Maybe put a hobbs meter (hour meter) on the lift and check the important things using actual use time if just sitting out in the weather doesn’t hurt it. Make it a system that works for you and you’ll be far less prone to things failing in the field. That’s when the machinery downtime really hurts. Keep up the great content! This is one of my favorite channels. The humor you inject brings you down to earth with the rest of us mortals. Love it!

Totally agree with you to inspect the boom

There is a good reason that the regs say to inspect the boom biannually. Building equipment regulations have reduced fatalities and life changing accidents by nearly 98% in the UK. I will enjoy watching your pragmatic take on the boom inspection and service. Have a good one…. 😊

Some of the best times and memories happen around a Bonfire John @FarmCraft101

Definitely sending fluid straight to tank. These lifts do really well in offroad situations

I've been subbed for a while now and I just want to say, you are making some great content.

Always a joy viewing your channel! You’re always informative and caring in what you do! Thanks for sharing! Keep up the good work!! 👍👍

21:33 You have a shim,seal,or gasket laying in the grease wich match the splined coupler OD.

Nice torque wrench you got there, I think it's the same model I have.

I am always amazed by your depth of knowledge, and not so common sense..😊

Before fitting the cheap gauge, I’d have tested it in a simple circuit with a battery and with the sensor in a bowl of water of known temperature. Love your channel mate 👍

Brilliant video I have been following for months , the narative discriptions are superb. Thank you.☘️🇮🇪.

Does nothing stop this man 💪👍 🇬🇧

Good old leverage in a can, sure comes in handy, better get ya some more!

I just love your Chanel dude! You do things so professionally and are definitely not a hack. I really appreciate your content and admire your awesome farm land home. Greetings from Australia

I worked in the equipment rental industry for decades. All the aerial equipment manufactures replacement parts were insanely priced. On aerial equipment, when parts went bad, if the part had a manufacture tag or name, I'd call that company direct and buy the same new part for 1/3 of the cost from the equipment manufacture. Example- 20' electric scissor lifts have a 24 volt DC motor that drives the hydraulic pump. The equipment manufacture wanted $700 for it. I saw the tag on the motor from who made it and called them. They sold me the same motor for $250.00. Some parts were made specifically for an equipment manufacture and were protected meaning they wouldn't sell the parts to anyone but the manufacture. I found that most parts were not protected and bought them direct from the parts maker who sold the parts to equipment manufacture. There are also equipment wrecking yards where equipment is stripped of it's good parts similar to a car junkyard. You can find lots of still good parts in those places as well. Also, I've never heard of a boom mast assembly needing to come completely apart every two years. No way is that right. An annual inspection? Yes, but taking the boom apart isn't part of that. The only time we took a boom apart is something broke inside it. This is with a national equipment rental company.