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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: 94646" data-attributes="member: 12954"><p>A lot of family stuff has been taking my time, but today I caught a little to work on the machine. Below you see it has been loaded into the bed of the pickup truck to transport to where I work since it can more easily and quickly do what I need to next. If you look close, you can see a couple holes I cut into the hydraulic and fuel tanks so I can reach in and get them clean. They both had a fair amount of muck and rust and no way to get in, so I just made myself some access. My only regret now is that I hope I didn't mess up the strength since it looks like the hydraulic tank was structural too, which is common but something I didn't think of 'til after I cut the holes. Regret is pretty common for me too.</p><p>But the vertical parts of the tank, which should be providing most of the gusset structure anyway, are untouched and there is still an inch or so of top remaining around the holes too. Just a feeling, but I think it should be OK. So today I'm going to make some covers with holes around the perimeter to cover these holes back up with a gasket sandwiched in. I also will be building up around the wallered bolt holes for the arm pivot and drilling them larger to fit the new ball joints, installing a fuel filler end on the side of the machine rather than the deep inside the middle arrangement it had before, then adding some hinge pins to the back cover to replace the straight bolt-on method it had before. Hopefully I'll finish this stuff today - it's mostly all a list of little projects.</p><p>Soon I'll do the next step, which is hauling the lift arms down to replace the worn ball ends and correct the length of the bolt-on cross member, which is 3/8" too long for some reason.</p><p>In the meantime, I'll figure out and install the gauge sensor stuff and then it should be ready to blast and paint. A lot of things to do, but hopefully it will go smooth and be ready for paint soon.</p><p><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mikeyphoto/media/truckin1.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/mikeyphoto/truckin1.jpg" alt=" photo truckin1.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vinito, post: 94646, member: 12954"] A lot of family stuff has been taking my time, but today I caught a little to work on the machine. Below you see it has been loaded into the bed of the pickup truck to transport to where I work since it can more easily and quickly do what I need to next. If you look close, you can see a couple holes I cut into the hydraulic and fuel tanks so I can reach in and get them clean. They both had a fair amount of muck and rust and no way to get in, so I just made myself some access. My only regret now is that I hope I didn't mess up the strength since it looks like the hydraulic tank was structural too, which is common but something I didn't think of 'til after I cut the holes. Regret is pretty common for me too. But the vertical parts of the tank, which should be providing most of the gusset structure anyway, are untouched and there is still an inch or so of top remaining around the holes too. Just a feeling, but I think it should be OK. So today I'm going to make some covers with holes around the perimeter to cover these holes back up with a gasket sandwiched in. I also will be building up around the wallered bolt holes for the arm pivot and drilling them larger to fit the new ball joints, installing a fuel filler end on the side of the machine rather than the deep inside the middle arrangement it had before, then adding some hinge pins to the back cover to replace the straight bolt-on method it had before. Hopefully I'll finish this stuff today - it's mostly all a list of little projects. Soon I'll do the next step, which is hauling the lift arms down to replace the worn ball ends and correct the length of the bolt-on cross member, which is 3/8“ too long for some reason. In the meantime, I'll figure out and install the gauge sensor stuff and then it should be ready to blast and paint. A lot of things to do, but hopefully it will go smooth and be ready for paint soon. [URL='http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mikeyphoto/media/truckin1.jpg.html'][IMG alt=" photo truckin1.jpg"]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/mikeyphoto/truckin1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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