Recent content by AJ-17

On New Year's Day night, I gently rolled my Thomas T-133S on its side into a creek and turned off the engine immediately. Got out and within 20 minutes had it somewhat on its tires with the help of a single axle flatbed semi with 10 tons of gravel in it(and 50 feet of chains) This happened at...

I added swivel "D" rings to the skid steer and the trailer 30 years ago. Works for me.

I do not use water to clean out the engine/belly pan area. I use compress air with a 36” long 1/2” piece of copper pipe with the end smashed slightly so the hole in only 1/3 of the original size. A 175psi compressor, 120 gallon tanks, works very well for cleaning without adding water to...

The motor is a Char-Lynn 112-1160-006. I have contacted Al at Thomas and he is going to find out a price for a complete unit. To answer the question of loss of power, there has not been any loss of power on the right side. It just slowly leaks the hydraulic fluid and probably has since I had...

My T133S had the same issue of slowly filling the chain case with oil. After 100 hours of use would drain 6 gallons of the 8 gallons out of the hydraulic tank to the chain case. Removed the char-Lynn drive motor, turns out the rebuild kit is $2800.00 and 22 weeks out. New motor is a few hundred...

It sounds like everyone have put there two cents in. I agree it is electrical issue with seat switch somehow and some lockout solenoid. Since I own a Thomas 1997, T133S, it has no electrical lock outs of any kind, no seatbelt now, no lockout with the parking brake bar. There never was any...

Had to replace the starter three times now in 13 years. Turns out that the soft cheap copper the Chinese use in the starter motor for the contacts, welds itself together until the starter catches fire. Have replaced key switch, starter circuit relay three times, finally went with a Ford relay...

Just my two cents worth. My T-133 is about the same weight as a 753 and a few years back, I also had a 98” “V” plow blade and realized that it would be much better to make it wider. So I added 18” to each side, not knowing if it would be too wide to push snow. Had to wait almost a year to find...