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Hi, Wait! What? It moves? It digs? Sumpin wrong here! These projects never turn out like this! :P Party Time! Whoot! Stan I'm sure I didn't get the steering perfect but it's way better than my old 450 straight by a country mile. The levers are matched, clutches disengage and the brakes lock up at t...

Took a second to come inside and cool off before steering clutch/brakes testing. This morning was spent behind a welding hood fabricating a one off square hitch pin to hold the backhoe boom up tight to the operator. I found a a piece of steel that looked like an old school Wile-E-Coyote magnet only ...

Got the painting done Backhoe buckets are swapped out and everything is put back together back there. Pinned the 4-in-1 bucket on the front and got the hoses made up for it that run down the boom, just waiting for the QDs to come in so I can build out that part of it, make some brackets to hold it a...

Got the inside half of the skid plate painted today (not sure how this got missed) Waiting for it to dry up a bit more I moved on to addressing the backhoe bucket... When I bought the machine, the backhoe came with 4 buckets and the widest one was mounted on it because the PO was digging a pond on h...

Today it stopped raining for the first time in 3 days and I was able to finally get the spring washers installed on the upper levers as well as swap both lever sets to their proper side. Only thing left to do on the loader is replace the two hard lines with hoses for the 4-in-1 bucket, make some pro...

Then you are going to have to start on a new one! Lavoy I do have an IH TD-8E (Charlotte) that needs some love in the paint department as she is one ugly mo-chine BUT she's a beast in the woods and I'll put her to work just like she is and maybe give her a new look down the road (I did tear her dow...

Got the backhoe fully mounted on the crawler and finally got to operate it! It was smooth sailing through full range of motion on all cylinders and the one leak I had stopped (for now anyways). My total hydraulic fluid capacity with the backhoe and loader is now up around 17-18 gallons I still have ...

Got the discos for the loader and backhoe swapped out just in time to get sideswiped by a thunderstorm. I did start up the machine and boy oh boy am I a happy happy camper! The engine started up normally and shut down normally and the hyd fluid is a normal temp! Everyone around me was telling me "do...

Got new quick discos... will connect and report later

Sure enough... pulled the QD on the pressure side and there was a paper towel hanging out... MOTHERF!!!! So fixing that should solve the obvious problem of no backhoe response. Since it was such a serious blockage, I'm hoping it frees up flow so that it doesn't put so much drag on the engine. I mean...

First thing I'm going to do is check the pressure line coming from the machine to see if maybe I left an earplug in there or something (I use them a lot to keep debris out of lines). It's highly unlikely I would miss something like that but I'm not immune to making mistakes so it's possible. If I fi...

Update (please help if you can): Backed up to the backhoe today, hooked up and... nothing, notta, zero, zilch. Couldn't even feel oil moving through the manifold. Since I swapped all the hoses, I did my due diligence and triple verified all connections for supply to and return from the hoe and all t...

I pulled it forward to clear the overhead and cycled all 4 cylinders through their full range of motion multiple times to get all the air out and now all 4 cylinders operate like the should. I didn't notice any smell this morning during run time but then again, I was out in the open so to speak. I d...

Hydraulic system results after a half day of testing... Tried to bump the engine over to prime the pump but my machine is very hard to just bump over because it wants to start immediately. The GOOD: - Once I got fluid flowing it took a bit for the system to fill up and I still think there is air in ...

Got the loader all buttoned up, tank filled and ready for testing in the morning. It started thunderstorming just as I was finishing up filling the tank, plus it was getting dark fast so felt it best to wait.

Broke down and ordered the wavy washers .