Awesome video, very helpful to all of us other dozer owners. I would love to see an update in a Part 2. I know you are probably busy with other projects but maybe a quick walk around the dozer and/or show the new clutch assembled and discuss plans to install? Keep up the good work!
I bought one of these last fall and the right side slips . I found your videos looking to see how big a job it is. No walk in the park but doable! Thanks for the vid.
One of the hardest things for me is knowing when enough is enough. I've gotten so caught up in a few projects that by the time I was finished I could have bought the thing new, so that's a smart move to recognize that new parts might fix it "once and for all," but sometimes "that'll have to do" works even better. Thanks JW, it's always fun hanging out with you.
A LeBlanc Yup, 'mission creep' has taken it's toll in my shop at times. The whole 'well while I'm here' mentality I suffer on occasions has cost quite a bit of time and money over the years.
Wow! You de-mystified for me how these things move. I always thought it was some sorta magic. So impressed how you use mental Judo to manage oversized projects. And thanks Malcof lincoln for telling us how to steer it.
You should be proud of yourself to have the knowledge and expertise to work on so many pieces of equipment and vehicles. Very impressive and interesting to watch you. Thanks so much for the videos...…….Sandy
Enjoyed your video immensely as I do all your videos. It is interesting to see the progress on all your project and non projects. Keep up the good work.
Noah is learning valuable skills as he works with you. One very important caution: lifting 120# is dangerous. I injured my back while in the USAF at age 21, lifting a heavy roll of coaxial cable with another guy. I have had 50 years of pain since.
Good lesson there Professor JW. With all the lessons you've been giving him pretty soon Noah will be teaching. Never now what's going on at JW's place. That's what we're working on, well one of the many things we're working on. Good stuff gentlemen.
So the clutch is basically like an automatic transmission. Even the brake band resembles a transmission band. Always wondered how all that worked. Thanks jonathan!
Not quite, I'll try and explain. Both steering clutches are engaged and the brakes off. It has a normal manual transmission, clutch and gears etc. To turn say to the left, disengage the left steering clutch. To turn sharper you apply the left brake. Then when you are pointing in the right direction, release the brake and re-engage the steering clutch.
Very common problem with older dozers that have dry clutches. If they sit even condensation can build up enough to rust the clutch discs together. Pulling out the clutches on a big dozer is interesting. You have to stand on your head and wrestle a couple hundred pounds down in a hole.
247 lbs chuck.... and your buddy had it in the floorboard of his car.... LOL I bet that was fun to get it in and out of the vehicle.... Would have been interesting to watch him do it.... Looking forward to part 2 on this one....
thank goodness for noah. he is a good helper, and if mentally capable, being around you, will get the proper way to make good with mechanics. you are his college. the good college. the one where morality is as important is book larnin. so ya'll air doing good again jonathan. best of luck to noah, and not get hurt. that is important, that he doesn't hurt you or himself.
You may have lucked out, me n pop's did the same thing on a cat td - 9 one side was jamned n the other was marginal. The cover plate was 1 4 both. One side was so bad in the finals bearing after bearing , track plates n chain. The story on that was batteries sat on the plate it leaked down n tore everything up. I think u will b ok patchin it up. Nice job.
You could probably disconnect the drive and head- and turn the Ways around. You might have to weld on a few Bosses for connecting, but it's on rails any way. Or- chop out the buggered section and start from new.
Good as normal Jonathan but still think u be on the back burner noah doing really well im glad his Hart is in the job and not in the head cos then thay want to pick and choose what job thay want to do. But he is really in to I'm really pleased to c that so all I can say is please keep him going cos there's not many people out there wich can do that he can. And beonest I for got u got machine. Wich is not normally for me cos that's the stuff I'm in to. But good job all the best to you and noah from Andy in UK
There certainly is no end to your mechanical skills and what you'll take on. I do the same here with equipment I farm with Buy something cheap and a little unusual I can fix up and use, then scrap it when it's totally worn out as I don't have much in them . It was fun when I was younger but with having to fix my stuff and some equipment for other guys to, the novelty's starting to leave in a hurry L.O.L. I was looking at my one expensive " good" tractor the other day even it's getting a bit worn out now and high hours and should be replaced as my main machine. Maybe I should just figure on quitting farming with what that units worth to replace now ! Hows the Belarus pump going, I got a junk one here on the shelf might have some parts left in it you need . Robert
I didn't look to see if anyone mentioned it, but Belarus, pronounced "bel-ə-ROOSS" is the area more commonly known as "White Russia". Paint it white after you get it running!
Are the new brake liners going to make up sufficient distance to makeup for the material you're going to clean up off of the drum? If that drum gets too small i would imagine that brake ring could close all the way up before it would clamp sufficiently. I hope there is enough gap on it to close up.
Good find on the 3 jaw chuck. Were you lucky enough to get the outside jaws for it? Wouldn't be a bad idea to tear it down and clean the scroll and everything, then lube it. OK, just a hint -- when you machine the adapter and mount it on that lathe and machine it true for the chuck, maybe center punch witness marks on the pieces so that if you ever have to take it apart or remove it from the lathe, it will go right back in the same position and still be true.
you might want to spend a few minutes and figure out a decent gasket to seal the cover on with so rain and snow won't get into the turning clutch chamber.. i would probably try to mount the drum on something to really get the outside smooth.. even if you are just doing it with against a scotch brite wheel on an angle grinder.. non directional finish. how hard is it to take out the other side for inspection since you have it torn down.. to at least reline the other brake band, smooth the outside of that drum.. check the clutch discs.. save the labor to do tear it all down again. then you are done for a decade with it. long term investment in the one set of components that will leave it deep in the wrong spot if they fail. i did not save or bookmark it.. i ran across a steering clutch aftermarket catalog online a while back. but i did send the link to a friend for his JD skidsteer version.. www.miba.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Divisionen/Friction/Downloads_Friction/Miba_Friction_delivery_program_replacement_parts_16-17.pdf Komatsu starts at page 110 hope this helps.. chances are that's who you are already buying them from.. might even be worth the time to put the old worn out chuck back on to spin the drums up for scotch brite polishing.. on the old 4 jaw.. are the screws threads worn out or the gaps for the thrust.. got some spacers you could drop in.. if the jaws don't have a lot of play in the slides.. since its a 4 jaw.. you can just grind new surfaces on the clamping jaw faces.. does not matter if they match exactly.. would not be hard to make them match.
How do you ever have any Free time for yourself ?? You run the Calls for the Wrecker and are always workin' on something or some vehicle.... Jonathan,, I believe you need to Hit the River with a 5" bream and catch an 'OL Monster Catfish sometime.... Just sayin".....
