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    Pulling hyd-cylinder eyeball from pin

    I have a hydraulic half-cylinder that I need to remove for rebuild. Best way to separate the eyeball? Reason I'm asking is that I've NEVER touched one of these before and would like not to damage what can be salvaged. Would a wheel-puller around the rim damage the eye ball bushing or bearing?
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    Parking-brake lining repair or relining?

    One of 4 parking brake shoe linings has failed in the removal (it was seized, 1991 DF-Dx-6.05 never opened in 32 years!) This brake is virtually never used, one usually leaves the tractor in gear instead. I have a choice of having it relined or just re-gluing it. For a glue-job, what glue to...
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    Deutz F6L912 jug and head shimming

    Spent an hour trying to get my head around terminology and usage surrounding Deutz air-cooled cylinder and head GASKETS & SPACERS (earlier models didn't use 'sealing-rings' at all, the name the Deutz shop manual gives to head GASKETS). The short of the long is that those that go between the head...
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    Fuel-tank lift pipe/hose icing

    The partial return of engine-stalls raised in another thread motivated THIS one. I have had next to no icing problems ever since I stopped using fuel out of drums, 'been getting my supplies right from the pumps in 5 gallon plastic jerries and being very careful about water, snow or ice...
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    Cummins 12-valve stalls when hot

    My snow blower never had this problem before. The engine comes from a 1995 Dodge truck, the P-pump was reused *as was* many years ago when I rebuilt the engine. Running cold with good oil pressure and slowly rising coolant temperature there is no problem. Once hot it begins to just power down...
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    Engine Build Deutz F6L912: 01 Tappets and camshaft

    I got the block, crank and cam back from the shop, all 3 are within new specs so the build begins. My intention is to document it in modular bite size videos, this being the first one for the simple reason that it's much easier to do before the crank gets installed. Hopefully comments will help...
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    Van-Der-Graaf Front-PTO stripdown

    I've pulled this out of my 1991 Deutz-Fahr Dx-6.05 tractor. It's in a sorry shape but salvagable IF I can find the parts. Before that I'd like to run into someone who HAS stripped one of these before. There's a large split nut with a set screw holding it tight (top left of image), I imagine...
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    x-hatching 'moods'?

    I've seen many more pictures of cylinder cross-hatching than I have done myself but almost all the ones I've seen OR done were weak efforts in comparison to the Cummins factory x-hatch in the photo. I opened this 1300 hour 12-valve to investigate rough off-idle behavior and came upon an example...
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    Deutz F6L disassembly

    I'm opening this thread here because there is no ENGINES forum. I've pulled this F6L912 out of my Deutz-Fahr tractor and have hauled it indoors for a look-see and a redo. A look-see to find out why it had low compression and occaisionally loud reports, and also to discus disassembly issues. To...
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    In-frame the deutz F6L912 in a DF dx-6.05

    Aiming to buy myself time to do a year or two's worth of shakedowns and serious make-new before a possible engine swap up, I have moved the rig to its winter operating table position for an in-frame fixup. I'll open the bottom to begin with to evaluate the wisdom in this, the crank may just nix...
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    20 lbs sledgehammers and injector disassembly

    I made myself an extractor that works like a charm but am having anger-management issues with disassembling possibly 33 year old Deutz type injectors just removed for an F6L912. I need to open one of these to make myself a compression testing adapter consisting of just a female/female coupling...
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    German engine made in China?

    I'm digging for info on Deutz BF6L913C engines, built a F4L912 once and sold it long ago. I've known since those days that these engines made anywhere else could be risky propositions but I went and looked at chinese sources anyway. They have prices that are 'all over the place'! Can anybody...
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    Air-cooled Deutz 6-holers

    I'm going to haul a Deutz-Fahr-Dx-6.05 tractor home in the next four days. It will become the future host for my future snow-blower replacing the current 'powered' blower powered by a Cummins 12-valve. This Cummins delivers around 440 ft-lbs of torque which is about minimal for my needs (and for...
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    Manuals for Deutz-Fahr Dx-6.05

    looking for refs: parts, workshop, operator, any other docs also reliable sources for genuine parts Thanks a gig
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    Annunciator lights gotta be SEEN!

    I brought these lights up in another thread but there *is* a safety angle so here goes. My 1987 Cat-426 dash annunciator lights were of the classic incandescent type that you could barely see in the dark (when no one is working) and not at all in sunlight (when most operators are). The sockets...
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    Cat-426 axle-lock & link

    My son was trying to help remove the sprung link and broke it. So I welded a 3/8 bolt and the new one is installed. https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/attachments/link-redone-png.266577/?temp_hash=2881632d7b39e28d8fe813396bd018b6 I don't understand well enough how this works: why is there a...
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    Cat-426: mystery screws in rollcage front posts

    There are 6 about 3/8" screws all along the outside of the windshield posts: any one know what they were for?
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    Can't find Cat-426 "flasher" ...also conversion to LED

    I'm redoing all running, flood and signal lights to LED, which require a specifically-for-LED flasher. Got a generic one with no part number or model number but 5 male prongs marked... + - L L1 I ...but no wiring diagram on it or with it. The vehicle wiring has a 3-wire...
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    Fuse-Board intermittent contacts {not just Cat-426?}

    As I refurb my 1987 Cat-426 Cabin (began with complete removal) I found the source of several mysterious intermittent short circuits in the right roll-cage pillar bottom where HIDDEN wiring rubbed against structurals. 3 of them were INTERMITTENTLY grounding. So part of the answer was to...
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    Abraison-resistant polycarb windows VS. wiper-blades?

    "Margard" as one of them is called is very pricey! But my Cat-426 keeps cracking windshields (3 in 20 years, the first one due to a rollover) so this time I'm thinking abandoning glass. Does new equipment ever use anything other than glass? Any wisdom, experience or warnings in the ranks...
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