Recent content by The Extractor

Resurrection of this thread. I’m pretty certain the small pilot pump is bad and not unlocking the brakes for the swing and travel. My neighbor found all the necessary parts for about 5k$. It’s still on the probably fix path. In the meantime I bought a John Deere 500C diesel backhoe for a good...

I don’t give up that easily, I’ll have to satisfy my curiosity of what is wrong. I’ll part it out or sell it to a salvage yard before I scrap it.

So , I ran it for a bit today. Only the boom functions work. No swing , no travel either side. It make a clicking noise the shaft moves in and out a touch on the left side if you cycle the travel back and forth. The right side didn’t really do anything. The swing did nothing. All three...

The manual says it’s basically a full power or economy switch.

I think it might be dig / travel. I’ll check the manual tonight. it’s stuck in the middle , maybe it has 3 positions….

Well after a whopping total of $800 invested I have the machine at my place. Now to clean the hydraulic tank and filters, refill with oil , fill the swing box, re mount the fuel tank, fix the fuel lines, replace fuel filter,open up the final drive motors to inspect, I can test it out. What...

I found a few also and called a couple places but no parts. I think the ads are old, or the parts go fast. where did you find them?

Thanks! I appreciate you taking the time to give me advice. The used part was only the housing and one other part. Waste of time. Do you have any favorite salvage yards? Names? I searched but didn’t come up with much.

I asked for a picture of the part but no dice yet. He said it is only the motor, so that doesn’t help all that much. What about parts from a newer machine about the same size? Giant headache and waste of time? If I get frustrated I will part it out or scrap it, it’s a hobby / learning thing...

Hi again everyone. Thanks for all the information and advice. This machine will only be for small projects and messing around at my house. It’s not going back into daily service. I ran the engine a bit and it runs good. I only wanted to run it a bit but I couldn’t get it to shut off and made...

Hi all. I am working on this excavator. Hour meter shows 5475, who knows the actual. Supposedly this machine can use steel or rubber tracks with no changes. In the pics it is missing the steel track and the planetary hub ,sprocket, guts and other parts for the final drive. I don’t have any...