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Hydra Mac 8A (Gehl 2500) restoration... or "Oh No... What have I done?"
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<blockquote data-quote="vinito" data-source="post: 93786" data-attributes="member: 12954"><p>The song remains the same...</p><p>I inspected a few things today and found a few sub-projects that need doing on the dang thing. Turns out that it would behoove me greatly to cut a large access hole and make a cover plate for both the fuel and hydraulic tanks. I stuck a metal rod down into the hydraulic tank and there is 1-1/2" of thick much on the bottom. I don't expect the fuel tank is quite that bad but there is absolutely no access in there so I can't tell either way. So I'm going to do add the access holes to both so I can get in and clean them up well. This also facilitates and easy way to extend the fuel filler to the side of the machine in stead of up the middle, as well as an easy way to add a fuel gauge sensor, which will be much liked by me. It will be nice to have it done, but it's more work.</p><p>Then I was looking at the pivot point where the back end of the arms mount and it dug deeply into the frame. Why it wore material away is kind of another matter, but what I found is that the width of the mounts on the arm ends is 3/8 wider than the frame. I checked it out and the frame is correct. So I guess I'll be cutting those ball joints off the arms and replacing them after all because not only are they worn anyway, but that will allow me to correct the width to be proper. They don't exactly look like they were replaced after-market, but they are definitely aren't attached with welding skills up to the level of the rest of the machine, so I guess it's been hacked in its life. So I'll just hack it better. Yea.... <em>more</em>, more work.</p><p>One step forward, two steps back. I'm hoping that if I just stay with it consistently, the damned thing will eventually be back together and working no matter what.</p><p>So I wonder what more work it needs that I will find tomorrow that I don't know about yet tonight. I'm sure it will be sumthin', er a few more sumthin's. Aaargh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vinito, post: 93786, member: 12954"] The song remains the same... I inspected a few things today and found a few sub-projects that need doing on the dang thing. Turns out that it would behoove me greatly to cut a large access hole and make a cover plate for both the fuel and hydraulic tanks. I stuck a metal rod down into the hydraulic tank and there is 1-1/2” of thick much on the bottom. I don't expect the fuel tank is quite that bad but there is absolutely no access in there so I can't tell either way. So I'm going to do add the access holes to both so I can get in and clean them up well. This also facilitates and easy way to extend the fuel filler to the side of the machine in stead of up the middle, as well as an easy way to add a fuel gauge sensor, which will be much liked by me. It will be nice to have it done, but it's more work. Then I was looking at the pivot point where the back end of the arms mount and it dug deeply into the frame. Why it wore material away is kind of another matter, but what I found is that the width of the mounts on the arm ends is 3/8 wider than the frame. I checked it out and the frame is correct. So I guess I'll be cutting those ball joints off the arms and replacing them after all because not only are they worn anyway, but that will allow me to correct the width to be proper. They don't exactly look like they were replaced after-market, but they are definitely aren't attached with welding skills up to the level of the rest of the machine, so I guess it's been hacked in its life. So I'll just hack it better. Yea.... [I]more[/I], more work. One step forward, two steps back. I'm hoping that if I just stay with it consistently, the damned thing will eventually be back together and working no matter what. So I wonder what more work it needs that I will find tomorrow that I don't know about yet tonight. I'm sure it will be sumthin', er a few more sumthin's. Aaargh. [/QUOTE]
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