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Impressive breaks/failures

billy-buck said:
and because ...wheeling thread
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That is...impressive.
 
sidetrack:

Three years ago in Moab on Hell's Revenge a buddy had his Can Am X3 RC 72" edition out there for the first time. He was doing Devil's hot tub and come up out kinda hot and lifted the front tires about a foot. Rear tires are spinning and she lands under throttle and the front tires plant and stop turning. :laughing:

Get it back to camp and the front prop shaft looked very similar to that. It twisted it in two like a Twizzler. The absolute cheapest thing he could have broke in the driveline. New OEM shaft was <$200:smokin:
 
Wades_76_cj7 said:
sidetrack:

Three years ago in Moab on Hell's Revenge a buddy had his Can Am X3 RC 72" edition out there for the first time. He was doing Devil's hot tub and come up out kinda hot and lifted the front tires about a foot. Rear tires are spinning and she lands under throttle and the front tires plant and stop turning. :laughing:

Get it back to camp and the front prop shaft looked very similar to that. It twisted it in two like a Twizzler. The absolute cheapest thing he could have broke in the driveline. New OEM shaft was <$200:smokin:
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Back in the 70s all my group of friends worked at different shops. One, El Cid, worked at an auto A/C and instrument place. This being the early smog era, big cars with big engines were bigly undertuned. EC would tweak things under the hood for some extra oomph. One trick was to power brake in drive at full throttle and advance the timing until the motor pinged. Then lock it there as that was an atypical mode of operation but gave you the best timing for that motor/whatever.

He was doing this on a brand-new Bonneville that had come in for speedometer calibration or some other dashboard work. Well, under full throttle and with the brakes locked the driveshaft twisted open lengthwise like a package of frozen dinner rolls. Customer and shop owner were not impressed. All of us were, of course. :flipoff2:
 
75cruisin said:
hahaha yup, gunna be about $4,000. Im going to start a gofundme for my sick cat :flipoff2:


that would imply leaving chit chat? Thats too scary
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The gear itself is only around $80. Did it tear up anything else inside like the clutch basket? Figure on replacing the oil pump and can chains since you’ve got it town down, otherwise you’re just looking at gaskets…
 
Gatorgrizz27 said:
The gear itself is only around $80. Did it tear up anything else inside like the clutch basket? Figure on replacing the oil pump and can chains since you’ve got it town down, otherwise you’re just looking at gaskets…
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It took out a bunch of shit including the shift drum that I just had to order from a german website because parts are unobtainium haha.
all the bearings are 1 time use so those are being replaced.
it also fucked up 5th gear on its way out.
I dont have the estimate in front of me, but I think 1/3 was parts. They are also working in a major service as the bike is 1,000 miles shy of the second major.
 
Was able to get into my Photobucket, but I guess I can’t download picture from it. There’s are screen shots from pictures so the resolution is probably worse than the old flip phone they were likely taken on.

This was the point on an excavator breaker. We were digging straight down into solid granite. Our boss has the great idea to have an air track drill a shit load of vertical holes to give the material somewhere to break to. All it did was force the breaker to find the center of a hole and get wedged. I’ve no idea how much these points cost, but I broke two of them digging this 18’ deep hole for a sewer pump station.
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MuntCuffin said:
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Weld 'er up and send it.
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Looks a bit dry! Did you run the front diff out of oil? Shit maybe I better check mine tomorrow morning. Was disk ripping with my 8630 today and have more to do tomorrow. Seemed to start falling on it's face towards the end of the day so I'm going to change my fuel filters that haven't been changed in who knows how long... Also just got back from the neighbors place. He's got a 4366 international that he bought cheap and ran for a couple of years leveling some fields and it's just been sitting since. Got it fired up and planning on trying it out tomorrow pulling the mulcher in the pic below so my boy can be doing that while I tear up some more ground.

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billybob_81067 said:
Looks a bit dry! Did you run the front diff out of oil? Shit maybe I better check mine tomorrow morning. Was disk ripping with my 8630 today and have more to do tomorrow. Seemed to start falling on it's face towards the end of the day so I'm going to change my fuel filters that haven't been changed in who knows how long... Also just got back from the neighbors place. He's got a 4366 international that he bought cheap and ran for a couple of years leveling some fields and it's just been sitting since. Got it fired up and planning on trying it out tomorrow pulling the mulcher in the pic below so my boy can be doing that while I tear up some more ground.

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Yep. Smeone marked on the maintenance sheet that gear oil had been checked and topped off. It hadn't.
 
300sniper said:
Was able to get into my Photobucket, but I guess I can’t download picture from it. There’s are screen shots from pictures so the resolution is probably worse than the old flip phone they were likely taken on.

This was the point on an excavator breaker. We were digging straight down into solid granite. Our boss has the great idea to have an air track drill a shit load of vertical holes to give the material somewhere to break to. All it did was force the breaker to find the center of a hole and get wedged. I’ve no idea how much these points cost, but I broke two of them digging this 18’ deep hole for a sewer pump station.
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That comes from side loading/ too loose of end bushing on the pecker. That’s a baby one. I broke one that’s another 2-3 quarters larger in diameter :homer:
 
[486] said:
the bottom plug or the top one?

overfull might indicate some clear waiting to come outta the bottom one
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True. I thought about that too. It was the top one. Should probably crack the bottom and make sure water doesn't come out there as well. With how hard I was running it the day before I figured if there was much moisture in there it'd be a white frothy milkshake that came out instead of the brown stuff. :laughing: Honestly it smelled of 90w but seemed much thicker. Someone probably pumped some corn head grease or pourable grease in there with the 90w at some point in time. God knows I have put that stuff in some shit! :lmao:
 
MuntCuffin said:
Good to see old machines still out there putting in work. Is that still running the stock engine or the 50 series repower?

you need more lights on that tractor :flipoff2:
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50 series repower. My old man fucked up the original grill pushing out tamarack and russian olive trees with a degelman blade so that one with the extra lights is a home made jobber. I just re-did the cab, put 8 new tires on it, and completely re-wired the entire tractor and got the lights going last spring. A lot of our grass/hay fields are starting to peter out, so it was about time to get back to tearing out ground again! I bought a John Deere 510 Disk ripper off my mother in law and it does a good job of tearing stuff up. I also have a few fields I need to laser level one of these years. Always something needing done or upgraded around here.
 
billybob_81067 said:
50 series repower. My old man fucked up the original grill pushing out tamarack and russian olive trees with a degelman blade so that one with the extra lights is a home made jobber. I just re-did the cab, put 8 new tires on it, and completely re-wired the entire tractor and got the lights going last spring. A lot of our grass/hay fields are starting to peter out, so it was about time to get back to tearing out ground again! I bought a John Deere 510 Disk ripper off my mother in law and it does a good job of tearing stuff up. I also have a few fields I need to laser level one of these years. Always something needing done or upgraded around here.
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I dig that front grill. We run 2 foot light bars on ours, and cheap led floods front and rear. Our are gonna need new wiring harnesses soon, too. We run 4 8630's and a 40 for tilling/grain cart duty. How was the harness swap? Did you get the new harness from deere? Seems like 2spd clutches are getting hard to find. Normally have a 2spd go out on 1 of the bunch every spring. And a main clutch every other year.

I just redid the interior on one, new shifter cables, new ass cushion on the seat, new steering wheel hydros and new lights in the dashboard. Its a damn Conestoga Cadillac.
 
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