Replacing the mounts on a bulldozer blade

[Applause] all right the project at hand right now is doing a little bit of work to this bulldozer so we got a few things going on here one it needs to be washed to do the work uh second thing is we got an issue with this blade actually welded this before you can see the welds i made a few years ago where i added these bars and they didn't break but it's still you can see this thing is still ripping off of there and it's not really a problem with like the welds being not good enough that's more of a design issue where this just isn't strong enough so let's revisit this and do something better than it has a piece of cutting edge i have it it's gonna bolt that back on issue over here it's got a hose that's a little wet so let's see if we can figure out what's going on in here i think it's one of these guys all right well let's get this thing washed up and then bring it in the garage and fix it up so [Music] [Music] so [Music] so so [Music] all right i had a little more pressure washing i wanted to do here just like that but this was weak the whole time and then it just stopped i thought something was happening to this so then i realized my well pump went bad down in my well i just went and pulled that out [Music] um all right so got the d4 in here it needs a few repairs so the blade has a ton of slop on it that ball thing on the bottom is a ton of play and everything about the blade is sloppy plus we got a hydraulic leak right here i think it's one of these hoses all right so here's all the new parts so luckily all these weld on components were available you know right from uh cat so this this is the top mount right here this was completely that's completely blown out in the machine this is wrecked on the machine and then here is the bottom thing brand new got some shims my cutting edge got me both these bolts i got a little they're either way too big or way too small [Music] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right we want to do next i'll pull that blade off [Music] [Music] that's easy there's a bolt to fix [Music] [Music] okay [Music] [Music] that's gonna break so mark the outside one oh ah so okay i don't think this hose is this in this channel that way easy all right see i see the prop one of those spacers got seized to this pin [Music] so that's the guy that was stuck right [Music] there [Music] definitely let's pin hole in the side of that [Music] so [Music] there's two options here one option is replace this with metal like it's got the other is just throw a rubber hose in here which is way easier and the rubber won't rust out either like you know even though that's not leaking i don't want to put that back in there like that we're actually going to change all the hoses on this thing so we don't get confused here a little bit of color coat stuff so let's make purple our bad hose right there we're gonna bring a purple zip tie to the store to label okay [Music] okay that's fine i think someone already did this job and changed these to rubber all right so we got orange right there wait right there which is this one this is orange [Music] [Music] uh all right see now i wasn't gonna bother with stuff like this but you know what look look at that actually here even better look at that one right there let's just change everything i got all the hoses off now this cylinder here had been leaking you can when these seals are out like that they're usually leaking [Music] uh [Music] i get those two cylinders rebuilt and new hoses all right i just got back from the parts store i got all new hoses let's get this blade off of here so man that's all over the place moving look at that uh [Applause] i guess you gotta loosen these a little bit at a time [Music] oh you know i'm sure if i spent another 45 minutes on this i'd get it apart but it's a waste of time [Music] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] look at the difference on that [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] that one bump right there [Applause] so [Music] all right i feel that looks straight [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] wow [Music] okay that is fixed fix that one all right as far as positioning goes so that just needs to be centered with this one needs to be let's go from right there bent let's measure it from here all right since this whole thing is bowed out let's cut this pretty aggressively here [Music] wow [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] i'm noticing here see how this is is making contact with that we get to this side [Music] and it's not i think it's gonna that's bent right there [Music] um that worked look at that [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] 22 and 5 8. [Applause] okay the old plate was quarter inch this is 3 8. [Music] i was going to put this just like that while that new plate on there and call it but you know what that's going to do that's going to move this plate up 3 8 of an inch which you'd probably never notice but see this is how it should sit like the face of this being the same height is this plate [Music] [Applause] so so [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] here we take this right there [Music] [Music] so all right there so now the back of the blade is welded to the face of the blade to keep it from separating again plus this plate is thicker than the last one so that should not ever break [Music] [Music] i was just kind of messing around here you know what the tl12 is pretty strong [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] all right let's deal with these bolts that are broken off like that all right now i find it best to wait for it to cool oh man i felt like it was going to [Music] wow so oh oh so [Music] these threads [Applause] it's just gonna break you know if you didn't care you could just put i mean all that holds is this thing you could just stick that thing thing on there weld it and it's fine and then cut the weld in two seconds if you ever needed to [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] wow [Music] all right new threads [Applause] uh so [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so oh [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Music] my [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] so i got it [Music] [Music] [Music] huh so [Music] so i'm like having an issue with it losing the ark i could stick with this i'd make some of you guys happy you know that that guy's welding nice look at that i'm gonna do one more pass over that though [Music] [Music] all right that's welded on there good that's welded more than it was welded when it was new so it's not gonna break [Music] loosest bolt is uh that's not working so [Music] oh yeah i mean that washer's not just hanging loose in there now so looks like i got that you know i'm just going to put all this back together but look at this you know while i have the thing all apart it needs these things the pins [Music] so [Music] so [Music] i mean there's nothing really holding it like look see like that that doesn't have that's not holding it it's just stuck in there oh man fun uh uh [Applause] that's solid round yourself in toys [Music] [Music] um [Music] and that feels like it's turning [Music] oh my god uh all right very nice we saved the factory threads [Music] changing these parts i'm sure there's a little slap in these ears but and they're available but i don't feel like doing another welding job it'll be fine yes [Music] awesome you know i let it wait a long time that time i mean like i edit these videos i try to put stuff in order i've been messing around with the thing over there but maybe that helped i mean it's still hot but all right cool let's go back to that [Applause] uh okay that good idea right there all right cody look what we broke holy cow what i didn't expect that look at that i thought like all right this is the best anchor i could possibly find right now apparently it wasn't i don't know if we need to rethink anything here but i mean i mean i don't think any of that's holding it in [Music] should we find a stronger thing to hook to [Music] [Applause] [Music] why don't people do this between buildings do you think you can walk a tightrope i don't know man if i had [Applause] okay probably not going to move that that is welded to the slab a very strong probably cody this was your idea right [Applause] we got to stop breaking stuff but i thought that chain was pretty strong i mean apparently it wasn't you know what maybe this that's gonna be junk that's a maybe right there all right got the 3 8 grade 70 chain wrapped twice on whatever size cable that is [Music] [Music] usually that 3 8 is pretty strong but oh it's hot i think we got it that's sweet yes we did what do you think buddy you approve of that operation that took full throttle in third gear let's break to get that out [Music] so [Music] when you buy the paint from the dealer you know it's more money than going somewhere else but you know what it's usually really nice paint it's worth the extra money look at that that's look at that color [Music] so [Music] i was a little worried this was worn out but look at that there's pretty much zero play in that nice [Music] so just so that doesn't slip out of there so thank you that was easy [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] there we go [Music] is you have these shims that go in here and actually to make up for wear what you do is you take them out you take out shims um but you don't want this isn't supposed to clamp this ball so tight it's supposed to be just on there so i counted eight of them is perfect [Music] okay [Music] it's like one of those uh puzzles there we go [Music] [Music] you [Music] yes this so i'm just wondering like these threads in this guy don't start to like back here so i think i may need to get the right shims [Music] um [Music] that doesn't fit over the threads so [Music] so hmm [Music] so if you go too much on one side and you can't do the other ah what [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] all right let's go for two of them two on this side i mean it moves easy now i wonder if it's too loose let me see what i'm going to take out one per side and see how it is and there's the one all right so i'm gonna call that perfect where it's a little bit stiff but it still moves pretty it moves to the point where there's no slop in that pin whatsoever but not so hard what do you think lab lab report say oh it's okay do nothing if it's good go awesome so this goes here but how do we drop [Music] you win that goes right there [Music] [Music] lined up down here was that supposed to go the other way um [Music] all right there's no way that's gonna go on did i do this upside down it would have worked way better the other way [Music] the pin in the old one was different all right i've been thinking about this for a week so i probably could just run this the way it is and probably be fine forever but since i took the time to do everything perfect let me just pull this apart okay [Music] so so so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so so [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] okay [Music] so put that cylinder on huh uh okay [Music] uh so um all right so i got some of the hoses on waiting on some parts here [Music] so what do you think cody it's the first time trying this press [Music] so i don't know if it's down all the way i'm curious if this presses any power will let's squish this wood [Music] now now [Music] wait is it working is it just go slow once it [Music] all right here's the thing it feels like it's not doing anything [Music] but it is it is doing something [Music] oh there's something [Music] so spacer's gotta go in [Music] so start pumping it goes fast and then once it gets a load on it it goes slow so it feels like it's broken but actually it's just putting itself in like a low gear is the best way to describe [Music] it welcome [Music] [Music] foreign um uh uh [Music] so one of these disappeared so i'm just making one quick look at that so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] pushing it i mean this really needs to be ripped first because it's like it's you know this is solid rock here we're blasted hey buddy what do you think should we rip this would be cool the dozer had a ripper on it all right well that's fixed so you know that was a little bit of a project but everything seems nice and tight now i want to dig out this corner more for a little more space so i just uh put a deposit on a cat 988 that's that thing would pick this up it's big so this is going in the garage next that doesn't need that much work though and if anyone wants some of these old bulldozer parts so i'm going to do this as three different listings so there are the things that mounted the blade frame there's the lower blade mount and then there's all the hardware that was broken doing this all the nuts that were welded it's the old bearings i just got these memorial plates for levi too so i'll put the link in the description for these things i'll also put the link in the description for the video last time this was welded and in that video i also welded the frame back together on this and people always curious how things hold up in the long run so let's take a look at this all right and this is what i did right here so that still looks fine i haven't run this in a while but i've certainly run it since i've welded it and that's fine this was the second time this has been welded it's the previous owner welded it before me so it was there and it was that side and this side too which there's no cracks in that all right well we're all done here i'm confident this repair is fixed so let's uh let me line up another job for this to do a better demonstration of it operating

Channel: Andrew Camarata

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Id: S50DKRtqFGQ

Length: 100min 40sec (6040 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 26 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/KreachersHead]

At the end Andrew said he put a deposit on Cat 988. Looks like he doesn't like the hilly view outside his castle's windows, so he's going to flatten the mountains.

[u/RahulRajAryan]

Still haven’t watched it, 1+ hours, I need to make it a movie night