Any forklift mechanics here?
Hi Kryn,
I knew it wasn't driving when I bought it. Was supposedly driving fine before it was parked up for a couple of years and the price was right so I figured it was worth a crack. Possibly I've got yellow snow instead of lemon sorbet hey!
If its just the diff then its probably not too big a deal to fix as long as I can get hold of the parts and not have to donate a kidney to pay for them. Sounds like the Chinese cloned these machines and parts are still available so fingers crossed that's all it is and I'm not up for a complete transmission strip and rebuild.
Got the mast off this afternoon. Used the old yard crane to lift it off. Wasn't as difficult as I expected.
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Naked!!!
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Was about to dig through the 50mm of crud that the brake lines disappear into when we copped a thunderstorm with some decent rain, so that was the end of that!
Steve
Any forklift mechanics here?
New gears and pin arrived, and I picked up some silicon bronze wire for the MIG to build up the cross pin holes and pinion gear faces in the case.
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Hard to get a good photo but you can see how the bore has worn tapered as the pin has gradually worked its out after breaking.
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First time I’ve played with silicon bronze in the MiG and the result wasn’t pretty, but did the job of filling the wear. I thought about doing it with the TIG but couldn’t see how I was going to get down into the bore. With the MIG I could use a long wire stick out to get some reach.
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Boring it was a real PITA due to lack of Z height and being too lazy to turn the table around on the carriage so I could drop it lower. The setup was less than ideal but worked ok.
In hindsight it would have been better to bore the holes over size to start with so there was a consistent amount of bronze around the majority of the hole.
I didn’t do that and ran into issues when boring it as there were hard spots where the bronze mixed with the steel of the casting. Had to finish it off with the die grinder.
Did the inside where the gear sits with an air belt sander.
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Finally all back together after a bit of fitting and fettling.
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The new press worked great for installing the bearings :)
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Steve