Bootheal
Senior Member
Your idea of ‘fun’ is a lot different than mine!
Good luck with the rebuild.
Good luck with the rebuild.
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sfrs4
Senior Member
Replacing or " fixing " ?
Acoals
Senior Member
Replacing. I had to replace the other side a year or two ago, the steel plate inside where the tensioner rod pushed broke and the rod punched through.
Fabick Cat has the part on the shelf at the location nearest to me, which doesn't have all that much on the shelf. Something tells me this part is poorly engineered . . .
sfrs4
Senior Member
When a part like that is on the shelf in local dealerships you know there's an issue, that's a big expensive bit of steel to have lying around in a dealership, just in case maybe, one day, someone needs one 
Lots of those been replaced one of the easiest parts to sell when parting one out. The 255/65 they made it much better
DMiller
Senior Member
It be a TAD Bwoken.
couesaddict
Well-Known Member
pittsburgh cat man
Senior Member
That’s impressive poor thing took a really big hit
couesaddict
Well-Known Member
Are they bent i thought if maybe camrea angle or something of the sort if the pin goes in ship it !!!!!
couesaddict
Well-Known Member
Bent bad enough the pin had to be cut out. Fab new and line bore. It was an insurance deal so it went to the dealer for repairs and I didn’t have to deal with it this time. Just got it back and they did a top notch job. Just under $20,000
Welder Dave
Senior Member
The dealer must have replaced a lot of parts instead of welding and fixing the damage. At least it wasn't a hit and run where you're trying to find out who did it.
couesaddict
Well-Known Member
They fabbed the lugs, did a great job welding them on and line bored the final fit. The factory lugs are 30mm and you can’t buy metric steel anywhere around here so they used 1-1/4” and counterbored for the washers and snap rings. That all takes a lot of time. It was over 10k in parts alone and I’m pretty sure they’re $220/hour or more now. It was real close to my initial estimate after looking up all of the parts.
Welder Dave
Senior Member
I had a stabilizer break when I was trying to dig a shallow drainage ditch in frozen ground. Whole machine slid back and the stabilizer hit a frozen lump. I pulled it back and welded it where it works but want to fix the top cylinder mount. The eye bent a little and one of the mounting ears bent out as well. I think with some heat I might be able to straighten the eye on the cylinder but don't know if it will need to be welded and rebored to fit a new bushing. If it does need it at least I can take the cylinder to a machine shop rather than having to have someone come out to line bore it.
Truck Shop
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DDoug
Formerly digger doug
We have a document in engineering showing allowable metric/inch
substitutions, seems the mills do similar, so we need to be able to react
to what is available that week/month.
Mr. Wrench
Senior Member
What is that torque convertor out of?
Cat 972M