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    Kubota 057-5 with factory hydraulic pin grabber

    You will not be disappointed with the Werk Brau setup. The six week wait time is typical with them and a lot of the better made attachment companies these days. I have had zero problems with mine to date. A pin grabber is worth every penny imo.
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    What is the common nickname for Caterpillar brand equipment ?

    tac Tac TAC ?
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    Operators too good to clean.

    It starts at the top. Lead by example. The one job I’m on, gc,d by a major national firm, is serious about cleanliness and safety. It’s enforced down the chain to the bottom from what I can tell. Every machine has burlap garbage bags hanging from them. Labors clean the tracks for me before...
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    Excavator Cleaning

    3000 psi at 4.5 gpm.
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    Excavator Cleaning

    Agree with Vetech63. I use a Hotsy steam pressure washer. 240 degree wet steam melts grease/oil etc. and the water pressure carries it away. You can always stay back from the machine to lessen the impact of the water if you need to. Also changing the nozzle affects pattern of spray and/or...
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    KX080-3 No Start Help

    May be a couple of different problems. The dash 3s are fairly simple. Small fuse box IIRC. No ecm as I referenced before- almost all mechanical. I would want to verify the keys are capable of delivering the appropriate information. Sounds like dealer time for that. No power to the antenna may...
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    KX080-3 No Start Help

    Did you replace the switch? A typical antenna just receives a signal from a transmitter and delivers is to a receiver. What is leading you to believe the antenna needs power? If it indeed needs power, and it can be verified to be 12v can you try a jumper to see if you can start the machine...
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    Cat 312E slow tracking on one side, (just started)

    I had the same thing happen on a 315CL
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    322C thumb plumbing options QCs used?

    My 321D LCR uses the b linkage… it’s a 60k pound machine. I don’t have any issues keeping the buckets on the coupler. I know cost is always an issue but Werk Brau, JRB and others have couplers that for the most part will accept a “range“ of different size pin and spread combinations. I also...
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    315CL Aux Plumbing

    Awesome. Just what I’m looking for. Thank you.
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    315CL Aux Plumbing

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    315CL Aux Plumbing

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    315CL Aux Plumbing

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    315CL Aux Plumbing

    Got a few mor pics of the components involved. When the floor mounted one position switch is pushed in the cab it activates a solenoid with pilot lines attached that go to two banks on the main control valve. The upper port on both valves have 3/4” lines that go to a tee into one 3/4” line out...
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    315CL Aux Plumbing

    2007 CJC05477 Pretty certain my excavator is set up for hammer plumbing only with one way flow. Right now I have two feed lines (pressure) coming from the main valve block, one from each, near outer-side, banks of the main valve block coming together at a tee then into a machined steel coupling...
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