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Message: <blockquote data-quote="goodtech" data-source="post: 2085" data-attributes="member: 259"><p>963, big machine pain in the butt to work on. Any demoltion machine stay away from they have been hammered to no end. yes they may of throw a new bobtac on the front, the reason is it was probally hanging there by a thread. We have 2 of the biggest demo companies up here and You could not give me one of those machines, you will spend more money on down time trying to fix everything, they will nickle and dime you to death. The 963 is a nice machine but I'm here to tell you that they are a mechanics nightmare. You take it to a shop and everything is almost doubled on labor, and parts are not a issue yet, but in a couple of years I can start seeing it being an issue. On the average when we bring in a 863 from a demo company to get it back up to snuff so it can work again for a couple of months it usually runs the company about 15,000 per a machine, but it is the little stuff, like lift arms cracked, pins and busings worn, steering bushings gone, fans and fan drives broken, drive belt tensioners, fan belt tensioners, hydraulic leaks from the control valves, bent tilt cyclinders, the list keeps going, so please take a close eye at the machine, 4500 may seem cheap now, till you have to sink a onthere 15000 to keep it working. Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>