Big Ugly Forklift - Part 5

it's one of those jobs I think where you know the guy was feeling right crowd went and told the boss and they either gave him a medal or they shot him on the spot all right so this is the carnage that's left over from the input shaft for that final dress so that's the spline that the disc floats on and there's a pair of tapered roller bearings at this end that we're all chattered up so I I try to press them off all that did was break the outside race so at that point we were hooped and I tried heating up the inner race and pounding them off I didn't do anything so I ended up having to cut them with the cutoff wheel and break him with a for the chisel and they came right off I found a big deal for the bearings their standard standard tapered roller bearings but the sleeve here there's a sleeve that the the seal rides on and it's a special part so that's the this is the steer axle completely removed from the machine Joye not that hard to take it out just got to take these eight bolts out of the the pivoting pillow blocks and the whole thing just drops right out but here's the problem as predicted this is the hole where this the spindle for the for the steering yoke is supposed to be installed and show you what I found so these are the bearings here that go inside this yoke and the top ones okay somebody is just beat the living hell out of this spacer between the bangs and I don't know why and then this bottom bearing yeah you see this discoloration and odd surface on the outside that is the tell-tale sign from my experience that somebody tried to put Loctite on it and yeah I know everybody seems to think that Loctite is you know a permanent fix for for a bearing Journal that's worn but it does not work so this is the pin it's all worn pretty badly where the where the bearings would sit and then in its journal like that super sloppy so also there's supposed to be a retaining ring or snap ring at the bottom appear at the bottom that goes in from the bottom like this that was completely missing so yeah you know ghosts of mechanics past all right that's the steering power steering cylinder so this end here mounts to the frame and then this is that you know nice banana shaped drag length that we were looking at earlier so yeah take a look at their little repair here pretty special somebody just grabbed it with weld and I don't really know if it can be fixed or not I'd have to grind all that weld off somehow get this get this thing unthreaded and figure out what what the hell is going on probably what happened is they stripped the threads somehow and it wouldn't hold tight and then right here is the cut where the where the drag link is cut almost halfway through and when I first saw that I thought for sure that it was done intentionally like somebody cut it with the torch or something in order to in order to straighten it or something I don't know but now I think what I think what the deal is is that because of the flop in that steering yoke it was hitting the fan belt so this is the drive pulley for the for the fan belt and yeah that's my that's my hunch anyway alright so now we're looking at the the left side of the machine this is where the fixed end of that power steering cylinder is supposed to be mounted and you can see the ball right here it's supposed to have a taper on it and fit into a socket it's like a standard ball joint but they've plucked that all up if there's a plate that's been welded here then they actually welded the ball fast to that plate so you actually can't even remove the cylinder the way that you're supposed to be able to both pop that ball out and then the whole cylinder sucks out this way but because they welded it permanently you can't do that and actually at the engine we're still in the machine I wouldn't have been able to take that cylinder out at all so yeah I don't I'm gonna have any idea what that's supposed to look like yeah I guess it would work but it's not very pretty but yeah anyway this this power steering cylinder is pretty properly puffed up and yeah I know it's easy to pick on seem to pick on the guy who came before you but he's just one of those jobs I think where you know the guy was feeling right proud went and told the boss and they either gave him a medal or they shot him on the spot all right here's some numbers that I put together for the project and yeah this is kind of this is kind of the reality of like flipping the machine or flipping you know buying something to flip or whatever yeah this isn't a hobby for me I purchased the machine hoping that I could fix it up and either use it to make some money or sell it for a profit or hopefully both that's what I've done pretty successfully with the machine tools in the past you know I'll buy a fixer-upper fixer-upper it use it for a year maybe two years and then sell it for a little more than I paid for it and basically have a free machine so let's start at the top yeah I paid a thousand dollars for the machine cost me $650 to transport it battery oil battery cables excited about hundred bucks I bought the second non cracked 245 motor for $150 and then the rest of these things I'm just estimating so the parts to fix the brakes I'm estimating three hundred and fifty dollars I think that's probably a little light because chances are the calipers are going to be going to be screwed up you know there's this burn water in the system those are cast iron calipers if the bores are pitted we're going to have to replace them the bangs that I showed that were destroyed in the final drive I'm figuring $200 that's probably pretty light too those are big bang's parts for the steering assuming that I can fix it I still need to probably reseal the film you can see how nasty and greasy it is leaking everywhere so need a seal kit for the cylinder probably a seal kit for the valve and then yeah I got to make parts for that drag link or whatever some something's got to be done to fix that and then the bearings for the yoke sleeve wellbore etc I don't know the radiator leaks I'm figuring $350 to fix that I don't know I've gotten a quote on that yet machining the engine depending on what they find out is wrong I'd say around $700 probably probably going to fix it engine parts rebuild kit probably about $700 and then the front tires are completely junk on the machine they need to be replaced I don't know what that's going to cost I'm just estimating $500 so not counting the $650 it cost me to transport it here you know I can't count that because it would have cost me that to transport any machine I come up with 40 to 50 as far as actual money that I need to put down an order to fix the machine and I think that's probably pretty light because there's other things I'm not showing here the scene is bad there's parts for the engine like the front cover gasket the rear seal the flex plate those things are Clarks specific parts is I'm going to buy from a dealer the other problem too is that there's no Clark dealer in my in my area anymore they used to be one and about three years ago they closed so the nearest Clark dealership for me is about two hours away and I have not even inquired yet about whether I can get parts or not so moving on up here in this and this side here is my estimate as far as hours so I'm estimating 8 to 12 hours to fix what's wrong with the steering that's probably pretty light I could easily double that 6 to 8 hours to fix the brakes you know once again depending on what I find with the caliper engine assembly 15 hours and then assembling everything back to oisin another 12 hours so that's 36 hours assuming $50 an hour 1800 dollars in labor I probably have I probably have more than that maybe twice that in the machine are ready as far as disassembling and troubleshooting and yeah can really wrap up a lot of time in these projects so yeah $1,800 I could probably easily double that to $3,600 so all right so if I look at let's just say we use the numbers that are on the board here forty to fifty for parts and the initial purchase of the machine plus another $1,800 for the labor that would be what 6000 $50 so I would have to be able to sell the machine for six thousand and fifty dollars in order to to break even on the parts and be compensated for for just the time that is on the board that doesn't count any of the time that I've spent so far and just for comparison I did some shopping around within a three-hour drive if there's a couple other machines like this one in the 12,000 pound capacity ones even the same model and these are running driving machines you know that are also used and they're sewing for about $3,500 and I looked at some dealer sites machines that have had some work done to them are probably selling in the six to eight thousand dollar range so yeah it would be a it would be a real stretch for me to be able to get that kind of money out of it even if I could advertise it as having a rebuild motor rebuilt steering rebuilt brakes etc etcetera I just I just don't know if I could get that kind of money back out of it so that brings us to brings us to this column down here so right now scrap prices are pretty low but I think that they're about 110 dollars a ton I think that if I keep the motor and some the forks and a few other things I still have about seven tons of scrap metal so I'd be $770 I figure I can rebuild the one good motor and sell it for $2,500 so - the 1,400 dollars in outside machining and the rebuild kit sell the forks for $200 sell the cylinders for maybe $100 apiece transmission for $250 so if you italia all that up twenty-six hundred and thirty dollars so i can we can basically take this twenty six hundred thirty dollars and apply it to the three things here that i've already spent money on there are four things sorry and i could basically walk away with a little bit of a profit so kind of a sad end for the machine but i just don't know if it's worth fixing it i don't know if the hydraulics work i don't know if the transmission works I never saw it run never saw it drive my fear is that I could get this engine all rebuilt install it in the machine put the steering all back together put the brakes all back together fire it up and find out that the transmission is bad or the hydraulic system is bad or it leaks everywhere also on their seals are bad so I just don't know if it's worth the risk so I guess I'll I'll put this out there and see what see what other people think these videos don't get a lot of a lot of viewers you know it's kind of hyper specific but let's say that it gets say that this video gets 40 views and assuming that I'm of average intelligence which is kind of a big assumption that means that at least 20 people that are going to watch this video just on sheer probability are going to be smarter than me so maybe they can chime in and see what the we'll see what they had to say about so right now it's not looking too good for the future of the machine

Channel: Watch Wes Work

Views: 43,418

Rating: 4.9269581 out of 5

Keywords: flipping, flip, clark, c500-120, c500-135, forklift, repair, fix, welding, rebuild

Id: _GvszQYMNB0

Length: 14min 16sec (856 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 09 2017