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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fishfiles" data-source="post: 22538" data-attributes="member: 782"><p>I hear ya Perry , looks like a post is missing or edited , aye , I seen that , I only use the hard tubing when replacing pick up tubes and what I did was stick the tube in till it hit the bottom of the tank and came an inch up and cut it , I always buy the longest tube and cut it that way , so I don't have to carry a bunch of different sizes ---------it was stupid on their part to put the pickup where they did on that machine and the place on the next seril number break ai't much better , there are lots of other places where it would have been easier accessable ---------when you first posted to this thread I was kinda lost , then when I ran across that 853 I realized that is the serial number break you must have --------what I went there for was a bad hydraulic leak and steering hesitation problems , which I was thinking travel motor seals causing the hesitation then surge , the seals on the pintle steering shafts were leaking bad , probally the worst i ever seen , after changing the 4 seals and 4 back up rings the leaks stopped and the steering was fine , I changed the light bulb and bulb holder socket as the led dash was unreadable , while test running the machine I found it starving for fuel , they had a clear in line fuel filter and I could see the air bubbles building in the filter so the soft plastic tubing must have been cracked cause after putting a hose in a gallon of diesel and to the primer bulb the bubbles disappeared , that is a good test , a clear in line or a clear piece of tubing , i have used clear tubing on my outboards motors testing fuel problems but never did use it on a diesel before</p></blockquote><p></p>

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