Recent content by tech.35058

I am not familiar with the lx565, but, isnt that a plug just above the level of the lower shaft on the left of the casing? I would expect that to be the level check plug.

Re quick attach ... Are you refering to the mounting plate for the bucket, or the hydraulic connectors? When i first got my lx865, the quick attach plate was warped, one side would "hook in" but the other side would not. We cured this by cutting the cross bar (actually cut a 6-8 in section...

Greetings Don. I have an older, lx865, with similar, if not the same engine, i think. I have not personally replaced the lucas pump, but eventually i may, so i am very interested in your experience. The service manual for my machine says "(install gear)". Not much help there. Skipping over...

Did replacing the turbo cure the problem?

Look at where the pivot point would be. You have to move all of the cab weight, and a lot of the boom weight to get to the balance point. I had to "pull"(jack turn buckle in tension) it about half of the total travel, then support it ( jack turnbuckle in compression) for the other half of the...

Pulling the seal off the core unit is a good plan. tipping the cab by pulling the loader frame ... I am not at all sure where the travel stops are, or how they are designed to work. I have "overbalanced" the machine forward, & used the hydraulic down pressure to tip it back on to its wheels...

Pulling the seal off the core unit is a good plan. tipping the cab by pulling the loader frame ... I am not at all sure where the travel stops are, or how they are designed to work. I have "overbalanced" the machine forward, & used the hydraulic down pressure to tip it back on to its wheels...

You are correct, if you are not dismantling the pump, you dont need that $500 seal kit. For a "getting paid to do it" job , we would always use new snap rings , but the ones holding the seal in should be fine. The washer-spacer should alo have no reason to wear. Look at the snaprings holding...

one other thing, these new seals with the rubber like coating on the outer outer rim. you are supposed to lubricate the out side & just push them in. When they first came out, I destroyed a bunch of them before I caught on about lubricating them. On my skidsteer pump, I used a piece of pipe...

When I worked in the "old dyno", we would stand by with a rubber "board" to cover the turbo inlet on the first start up after a rebuild. Then we had lines run to dump a big CO2 bottle in the intake if one ran away. The "new" Dyno simply applied massive load to stall the engine . Oil smoke...

hours on my machine, gee, I don't know. hour meter is built into the "(electronic control thing)". I think mine is wonky, says something like 127 hours. I think it read more than that at one point, but reset itself or something. ( this machine belonged to a timber harvesting operation at one...