I had fluid coming from my axles, so I drained the oil from the case in the front behind the loader bucket and put it back up top. t ran for a while then i had to do it again every few hours. that's when i decided to overhaul the drive motors
I brought my motors into Hydraulic World and they told me the shafts where worn and they wanted to sell me two new motors for $2500.00, I paid $800.00 to have the shafts rebuilt. so i would call around and ask the shops first if they spray welded and then ask them to rebuild the your motors. My...
I would take the motors out and have them rebuilt, I had to rebuild the shafts on my motors. So I took them to a hydraulic place and they sprayed welded the shafts and resealed the motors. It was 1/3 the costs of new motors. The skid loader works great now, and that will fix your lifting...
I used a 1 3/4 inch wrench to loosen the nuts on the inside of the drives, and I turned the locks on the inside of the nuts to slide off the brake disc's. take a link out of the front drive chains, and then loosen the motors, hold the end of the motors towards the front and rotate the back...
If I unbolt the motors they will slide off the sprockets? Or do I have to take the chains off? I opened up the top and I see two sprockets with the brake disc's on both sides. Do the brake disc's need to come off too?
I have a bobcat 530 that loses fluid down into the bottom case, would my drives cause that? how hard was it to change them or to rebuild them? Where did you get the instructions? thanks