After a long search, found a decent shape 610 with most of the attachments I'll need. So here's a list of general questions.. BACKHOE - should i remove the bucket before mounting the backhoe to the frame? i think the boom coming down would hurt me either way.. ATTACHMENT STYLE - this one has a long horizontal bar with one handle on the right. Will this work with newer attachments? REAR MOUNTED RIPPER - not currently mounted, and they put an elbow on the rear hydraulics to run up front (i need a tee added) after mounting this on the rear, how does it go up/down? GAUGE - the right front gage is crushed, was it oil pressure? there is a small steel tube running into the box with the hour meter, and this damaged gauge.. SERVICE MANUAL - is the $20 cd that you get off EBAY any good? Thanks for any input!!
New old m610 and a few general questions
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The gauge is a vacum gauge to measure restriction in your hydraulic filter. The higher the vacum reading the more restriction in the filter. mine (as well as several other guys I know with these machines) has not worked since I got the machine, I just change the filter when I service it. The manual on cd I think is ok. I believe a book is easier to use but the price of the book is kind of high in my opinion. I downloaded my manual off the net for 10 bucks and put it on a cd as well as leaving it as a file in my pc so it comes up easy. I use it often, you will need something be it a book or cd, they seem to cover the same info, just your choice on which format. Hope that helps you a little.
Also, your quicktach will work. I have the same one and use the attachments of friends that all have newer machines. In fact, I like the old style better, it's easier to use in my opinion. It is nowhere as heavy duty as the newer ones but the 610 is no where near as powerful as newer-bigger machines. should be fine. Enjoy your new toy!!
HanSolo
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Regarding your backhoe attachment - I would definitely take off the loader bucket before raising the loader arms and attaching the hoe. The arms are probably still going to leak down unless you put a shim in. That would be a piece of 1" or 2" angle iron cut to fit where it will lay on top of the fully extended arm ram. Put a tad bit of down pressure and it will stay snug and prevent the loader arms from coming down on you while you operate the hoe. That's also a great safety device to use while your doing any service work on the machine that stipulates the arms being raised.
Thanks to Mark and Han for the quick information.. Does anyone know about the rear mounted ripper? I did get the backhoe hooked up working after locking the middle pedal forward to supply pressure. Since the rear mounted ripper doesn't have any valving like the backhoe, I'm assuming i might need another valve to reverse the aux supply and return lines or it will just go one way and i'll be stuck with it in the up or down position.. Thanks again
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On the M700 I owned there was an additional lever on the left hand side for the rear aux circuit. That machine was plumbed for that with the old style quick connectors. I didn't attach any thing to that or the front aux. circuits however. I assume the lever allowed for incremental down and up positions for rippers or rear outriggers.
I don't know anything about the ripper except I know they where available. I would think that would work off the center (aux) pedal. I use the center pedal for a wood spliter on mine and it powers the cylinder both way in and out, I would think it would do the same for your ripper. If your pedal wont go both ways it may be "frozen" by rust and not moving free all the way both ways. Mine was frozen like that and I thought it only locked to give constant flow, but it should move both ways. I had to pull the pedals off, heat the middle pedal with a torch to get it moving again. Now it works fine both ways. I think these pedals never get used or greased enough to keep them free. I think you get that center pedal moving both ways freely you will be all set for your ripper. I think that would be a handy attachment, wish I hid one!
