Recent content by Porno Joe

I honestly think the guy was just too busy with other work, didnt want to tackle this job so he gave me a pretty high price. he said it would be about a day to day and a half just to get it apart. assuming it took a little longer to get everything back together correctly, I would have several...

sorry yes I had it wrong. I looked at the machine yesterday and had him explain it to me. its all the bearings on the inside of the drive motors. as soon as you open the chain case you can see the brake rotors on the shafts, well it looks like ALL the bearings on those shafts are junk. also, I...

ok guys bumping this back up. I dropped my machine off at a local repair guy a few months back. I finally talked to him about the machine and the news wasn't great. he is saying the bearings are shot in the drive motor gearboxes (think thats what he called it). the bad bearings were causing the...

so slight update to this. I parked the machine and havent moved it since this happened. Saturday I looked quickly at the machine while I was there. looks like the hydraulic oil tank is completely empty, and I could see a stream of oil from around the right rear tire of the machine. I talked with...

i have a older machine- 92 853G to be exact- that I picked up 3 years ago and got running. used it for what I needed, and stored it away. havent used it more than 10 min at a time in the last 2 years. It has s small leak somewhere while sitting (which I never fixed) so i know I have to fill the...

Ok this plug at the front, I assume I have to lift the cab to access it? Honestly I don't know where the leak is. I still have some oil inside the machine, so it may be a hose/fitting somewhere inside the machine leaking. It's just hard to find because it's leaking so little.

Well it's been almost exactly a year since I picked up my bobcat. I fixed all of the major problems with it and used it this summer to dig up two driveways. It's an early 90s (1992 I think) 853G from what I read. So when I got the machine it had a hydraulic leak that turned out to be a leaking...

Yup I'm going to fab my own up. no way I would ever pay that much. I saw some bobcat mufflers on ebay for like 250-300. I might have bought one for around that price, but no way over 500. Seems like bobcat sort of has a monopoly on their parts for machines? guess they aren't really releasing any...

Where is a good place to order parts for my older 853 skid steer? Is there any place other than the local dealer? Or does bobcat keep their parts to dealer only? I have been searching for a few items for my machine, two of which are the muffler and exhaust pipe. I saw an older post on here that...

I'm not sure exactly what the fitting went into , but it was one of the two large high pressure lines that run from just above the fuel tank up to front wheel. O ring blew out. Cheap $2 fix so I'm happy! Only cost me $200 to make all the necessary repairs and change filters

I got the fuel tank fixed last week. Working on the hydraulic leak now. Here's what I know so far- I can see the fluid running off of the fuel tank directly under the two large hydraulic hoses that run up to the control valve. I know those hoses are high pressure so if they had a hole it would...

Worked on the fuel pickup tonight. I can reach back and get to it, but I can't get it to come out of the tank. Worked on it for like 2 hours and it won't budge. Going to try getting a new pry tool tomorrow night

Hey guys just joined the forum. Last month I picked up a 1992 853G bobcat. I got it for what I think was a steal, but obviously it has some issues. Major issues: 1- doesn't run off diesel tank. Previous owner rigged up a 5 gal can and it runs fine off that 2- hydraulic leak. Still attempting to...