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<blockquote data-quote="Burnout" data-source="post: 9605" data-attributes="member: 1224"><p>Yeah I remember about the low life expectancy of the tilt tach unit. But we put on over 2500hrs on our 257 and it held up without a lot of trouble. Most of the problems were blown hoses from guys holding the buttons for the aux hydraulics, and a bent cylinder because gravel got inside and jammed up the cylinder. We ended up taking some 1/4" rubber and flapped it over the back of the unit to keep dirt from coming over the back side of the bucket and down into the attachment. Our 973's see very little aggregate use mainly wet dirt, clay, and some sand. I had 2 ideas in mind to make it, 1 would be a cylinder to just swing the unit as the bobcat syle does, another was to make an enclosed gearbox with a slow speed hydraulic motor inside turning a chain to swing the bucket. The nice part about the track loader is weight isnt really an issue since I already have a 6cu yd bucket on the beast instead of the standard 4.5 so if its too heavy we could go back to the stock bucket.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Burnout, post: 9605, member: 1224"] Yeah I remember about the low life expectancy of the tilt tach unit. But we put on over 2500hrs on our 257 and it held up without a lot of trouble. Most of the problems were blown hoses from guys holding the buttons for the aux hydraulics, and a bent cylinder because gravel got inside and jammed up the cylinder. We ended up taking some 1/4" rubber and flapped it over the back of the unit to keep dirt from coming over the back side of the bucket and down into the attachment. Our 973's see very little aggregate use mainly wet dirt, clay, and some sand. I had 2 ideas in mind to make it, 1 would be a cylinder to just swing the unit as the bobcat syle does, another was to make an enclosed gearbox with a slow speed hydraulic motor inside turning a chain to swing the bucket. The nice part about the track loader is weight isnt really an issue since I already have a 6cu yd bucket on the beast instead of the standard 4.5 so if its too heavy we could go back to the stock bucket. [/QUOTE]
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