Recent content by BALLS753

Thanks Ken, I'll definitely keep the offer in mind. I picked up an owners manual and service manual to tackle as many of the routine service items as I can, but for some of the bigger repairs I wanted to trust the local shop that has the experience and rapid source of parts to get the machine...

The invoice for all of it was in the neighbourhood fo $5,500 CDN funds. The biggest deal of the package was the used bucket, which was an old rental unit that been worked over fairly well. Lol, it has 1.5" - 2" diameter rebar welded on as digging teeth. Not pretty, but effective... I'll still...

Got her home today!!! Turns out there was quite a bit more wrong with the drive motor than just a seal kit. The drive motor pump was broken into 3 pieces. Yeah. Oh boy. So, a bunch of other stuff was replaced as well: Control stick pintel arms [wrong ones for this machine were in there, plus one...

Hi Guys, Thought I'd give you an update. The shop drained the chain case and discovered that the right hand drive motor [side with the issue] appears to be newer than the original drive motor on the left hand side due to a visible part tag. Also found a bunch of really nasty emulsified oil in...

Hi Paul. I'm new here as well. Really nice people here it seems. Congratulations on your new toy.

I wasn't fond of the ether idea myself. Had the insurance already placed on it, so if it went up it would have had to burn to the ground!! j/k That would have been pretty upsetting. Service shop installed a fresh bobcat battery in her today and started inspecting it. Apparently it runs very...

The battery was drained when I arrived to pick it up. Someone from the auction yard left the key set to the "on" position when they moved it last Thursday and I arrived to get it on Saturday. No startie startie. Auction house tried to boost it at the starter and even tried a shot of starter...

LOL. Thanks. That's a good start. A gracious Member of this forum has recently helped me find a manual [many thanks OM] and I'm going to see if the 2A trickle charger I put on the battery last night has helped the lack of starting. Yes indeed. Pretty straight forward machines and plenty of...

Hello from Vancouver Island, Canada! Recently bought my first "new to me" Bobcat 753 that was at auction. Fairly old, but appears to have relatively low hours for being a 1995 [if the hr meter is actually correct of course] and was serviced with Bobcat fitlers about 50hrs ago. Looks like it was...