Traction Is something wrong with my dozer?

[tbergman]

Make sure that you have adequate fuel delivery (clogged filters, clogged tank outlet, crimped fuel line, etc) and make sure that the air filter is not clogged. is the clutch slipping?

Will do the cleaning and checks you suggest. I am confident the clutch is not slipping or it would not bog down as much as it does when I push against an immovable object.

 

[tbergman]

Your dozer should spin the tracks, but it has a torque converter that tries to keep the tracks from spinning...

Spinning the tracks waste a lot of power and is hard on the machine, also when pushing a bigger tree over, you are pushing down on the dozer, loading/weighing it much more, making the tracks much harder to spin, because of the added down pressure on the dozer.

It does sound like your tractor is down on power a little though...

SR

To be clear, I never want to spin the tracks, but thought the machine should have plenty of power to do that...but it does not, well, except when I am sitting on a pile of rocks...and then I certainly try to avoid spinning the tracks as it rattles my old body way more than I like.

 

[mopardude318]

Brian that is a very nice Dozer. I知 in the market for one and I will also look for a case 310. We got a lot of rain this year and the runoff over flowed the creek bed on our property. I probably have several hundred yards of dirt I need to push back up to build up the embankment.

This pic the water is about 4 feet deep.

What gear are you in, how much throttle? I have 2 older Case tractors, a 310 dozer with over 10,000 hours and a 580 e with about 8000hours with original engines and both will spin tracks, tires no problem. Now they will not do it in 3rd gear, but the dozer in 1st or 2nd and the 580 in 1st. They both seem to have plenty of power for old warn out machines.

 

[1010]

Find out what transmission you have, converter or direct drive type? Converters are like you described.
Once you find out what you have see if there is a filter/fluid that could be changed.
CAT and Deere both made convertor tractors, they were especially popular with road work spreading materials. Simply because the smoothness was much easier on the operator. Some folks just didn't like the softness.

With a convertor the engine shouldn't change tune a whole lot, but the forward momentum will slow. They will barley spin the tracks and not at all in certain materials..

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Brian that is a very nice Dozer. I知 in the market for one and I will also look for a case 310. We got a lot of rain this year and the runoff over flowed the creek bed on our property. I probably have several hundred yards of dirt I need to push back up to build up the embankment.

This pic the water is about 4 feet deep.

While I love to look at water, I do not envy those that have to deal with the damage that it can do.

Thanks for the complement, That dozer is-was my very first tractor that I ever purchased. It's been a good machine over the years, not perfect, but it gets the job done. I would love to have a cat D5 for dozer work around the ranch. It would get things done much faster than the 310 does, but still small enough you are not over whelmed. We have an old D6 for disking, but that's about all it's any good for any more.

Hey, don't forget about those diverters for your Kubota. You need those other sets of remotes to be at you finger tips, not out back as they are now.