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I’d like to start a thread for those of us in the big diesel industry. I’m a fairly new member to the diesel community myself and would like to share some of my experiences just being days into my new job.
Spent the majority of the day changing landing gear on a trailer. The existing landing gear looked bent and unsafe… so we changed it out. It took a lot of fabrication as you will see:
pre-heating the landing gear fasteners just to make them easier to come off
had to break a lot of existing welds to get the old landing gear off
plasma-cutting the handle bar cross-member
cleaning up the cut
modifying the new landing gear to fit on the trailer
doing some finishing touches
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the finished result.[/i]
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Cool, I myself am currently in the “big diesel industry”. I’m no more than a lube tech at the moment, but there is allot of things to lube on big trucks and equipment (dozers, skids stears, excavators, ect)… So I’ve learned allot… Slowly gaining more responsibility, so hopefully I’ll be “moving up” to doing other things soon… Lube and fluids are critical, but man, it can become pretty boing, lol.
Here you go… “big diesel”
Cat 3524B engine sitting in one of our far bays waiting for the chassis to return from welding.
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Re-installing parts onto the hard nose of a D9 tailing dozer
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Jacks for 785 to 797 haul trucks.
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Q: HOW DO YOU GET TO WORK FOR CATERPILLAR..??!?
Do they have their own school? It seems they’d have to because they have so much different types of stuff to work on. I’d like to move on to CAT after I get a few years of diesel under my belt.
I never worked for Cat. I WORKED for a dealership.
I work for a komatsu dealership now.
As for schooling. No they don’t really have a school, but they have a ton of specialty courses ranging from electrical to hydraulic. These are called S levels. Once you have all the S levels they have specialty programs for types of machines weather you wanna master small dozers or draglines shovels.Snap-on makes a nice 1″ impact, its a lot lighter then most 1″ impacts out there. Maybe get your shop to look into them next, easier on the arms.
Also RAD guns and Hytorcs make big torque jobs easy… mind you 450ft/lbs isnt that bad to do with a 3/4 or 1″ torque wrench.
This was me today after working 8 hours non-stop because the reigning ‘clique’ decided to keep me as opposed to the other new guy which actually had more experience than me:
Eaton Fuller 10 speed transission; customer complaint: Grinding and/or cannot shift into 8th gear:
New clutch since we are already in this far:
Life from down under:
New tapered wheel bearing and race:
When was the last time you had to put 40 quarts of oil into anything..?
My tire repair near the sidewall actually worked:
This trailer tire failed DOT inspection:
Had to change the front tire on this bad boy… it’s like the biggest tire I’ve ever seen and weighed exactly 1 million pounds:
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Had to change the front tire on this bad boy… it’s like the biggest tire I’ve ever seen and weighed exactly 1 million pounds:
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I highly doubt that it weighed that much.Try changing this one. 11,600Lbs.
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Try changing this one. 11,600Lbs.
That weighs almost as much as my ex-wife.
[quote=”Wrench Turner” post=68790]what’s the price tag for one tire..? :dry:
Try changing this one. 11,600Lbs.
That weighs almost as much as my ex-wife.[/quote]
I think my old parts tech told me it was about 40,000$ a tire, not including, transport, labour, and hardware.
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