New style Kioti KL130 loader - OEM improvement?

[dfkrug]

Highbeam:

I and a thousand other CK owners have been watching your
threads closely. Thanks for all the updates.

The CK30 I use was purchased in the early summer of 05
and its loader is reinforced! I just took off the cover plate and
I was starting to plan my own hidden reinforcement. The
thickness of the 2 reinforcement plates, as well as the
cross-tube itself is about .235" (5.5mm). I also noticed
that several tablespoons of coarse black sand fell out of the
cavity. Maybe foundry scale that flaked off?

Anyway, my loader sn is 50322130.

 

[coasterez]

Highbeam,

I just checked mine. It is also reinforced. Good news for all! As I said, I just took delivery in March. Sorry, I forgot to get the S/N.

 

[Highbeam]

This may be an odd question but is the reinforcement visible without removing the cover plate? Or is it all beneath the thin plate that makes up the full Xmember. We have folks that have seen the new and folks that have seen the old but none have seen both to know that it is in fact an upgrade. Do you see what I'm saying?

Yes, good news though. I'll look under my welded one after the busy weekend to see if I ever had the 0.25" thick boss.

 

[Dodgeram]

I didn't take the cover off to check mine. From the picture, it looked like it should be visiable without removing the cover.
I will re-investigate this weekend.
Tom

 

[TBDonnelly]

The re-inforcement is not visible from the outside. The cover must be removed.

Don

 

[Highbeam]

Oh cripes. This is a big deal since I wasn't out taking covers off at the local dealer. So does anyone not have a 0.25" thick mouth around but under their access plate cutout? I will need to remove my plate tonight to see.

Seems the CK20 photo of the cracks didn't show the thick wall boss.

 

[Highbeam]

Here's a photo of the CK20 loader without the reinforcement. I suspect my cracked loader will look like this under the plate.

 

[Steve_Miller]

<font color="red"> Seems the CK20 photo of the cracks didn't show the thick wall boss. </font>

That would be mine and no it is not very thick, maybe .125" thick.

Steve

 

[wallace]

I did get a chance to check a couple of the kl130 loaders and they were all reinforced.

 

[gbick]

Square corners bad at stressed area. Radiused corners better.MMMMMMMMMMMMM, bisquets and mustard.