Ed's 77 Terex 72-41 Wheel Loader

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We found and fixed leaks, one on a quarter inch tube attached to the transmission, the other was the hose attached to the bottom of the steering tank. I plugged where the tube fitting was with a grease zerk, then brought ferrule and fixed it the next time up. The steering tank hose was just a little loose, tightening it stopped the leak.

 

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I’ll check it. I can’t see inside the horn, because of how they’re mounted. I was hoping that’s what it is, but could be internal.

Horn was just clogged with mud, I cleaned it and it works great now. I sometimes bump it, it’s a floor button. I was used to not having to avoid that area with my feet all this time.

 

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Did the rear brakes, they both got new wheel cylinders.

 

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This happened in August. Turbo cooling line was leaking, had to remove air cleaner and hood to get to it. Most turbo clamps and bolts were loose, I tightened it all.

 

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I also tried to clear one of the pivot (articulation) pin grease zerk holes, grease won’t go through it. The one that’s clear puts grease on the bottom of the three plates that contact the pin, I’m assuming the other goes to the top. I pushed something up there until it hit metal, it wasn’t clogged. I guess the cross hole is clogged. I got a Porta Power pump and hose to push the dried up grease out with, and the correct adapter fitting.

 

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We don’t get much action video because we’re working, I know thats disappointing. Here’s one we got. It broke off at ground level when pulled from higher, so I dug down and got a choker around it.

 

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Rear brakes won’t bleed, fluid is barely spitting out of the master cylinder. I brought the power cluster home and dropped it off to be rebuilt, they said three weeks.

Finally decided to see why the front brakes quit working a few years ago. Lifted the wheels off the ground and they wouldn’t spin, two of us could barely move them. Started checking the adjustment, and it felt like it was too tight already. Backed them off and then they freewheeled. Doh! My now deceased friend adjusted them, and I remember doing what the book said to do. So I try bleeding, and fluid shoots out good, no air. Now I’m thinking the shoes and pads are glazed over and they won’t grab. That means pulling the front wheels off again.

 

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Our current and only burn pile has gotten too big to add anything else. We don’t have another area to burn, so I started making one. A neighbor commented that the fire spreads through duff under the snow and is really hard to stop, I’m thinking “duh”, that’s why I only burn with bare dirt around the pile.

 

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We’re doing some thinning too, and used it to move this stuff.

 

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This had been in the future burn area, I drug it up the hill and pushed it out of the way.