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Mylesa

12-04-2005 13:20:15




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A few years back, I was gifted a D4 6U687 with dozer and narrow treads that had seen poor care and was left sitting 15 years outside after a river flood froze in the lower tank. I had it hauled 175 miles and parked it carefully on a carpet in the back of the machine shed for a retirement restoration project. It had its gear shift frozen in neutral so it was easy to push around. Recently, I decided not to rebuild as it looks like a $10G project and was going to move it back outside to let it rust some more and probably grow in value : ) But the Cat wouldn't budge. It is locked up, even tho the gear shift is still frozen in neutral. Nothing caught in the tracks. So babying this old machine was a stupid thing. Where should I look to unlock the tracks??

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NC Wayne

12-04-2005 20:23:49




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 Re: Now what? in reply to Mylesa, 12-04-2005 13:20:15  
The problem is probably just what you stated, the pins in the tracks are locked up. When this happens you basically have two choices, start soaking them with penetrating oil and trying to move it with another machine til they decide to break free, or simply get a larger machine and drag it where you want it to go with the tracks locked. Everybody has their favorite penetrating oil but the best I've found that's readily available is PB Blaster. If you do some looking you can usually find it in liquid form a little cheaper than in the cans. This way you can put it in a squirt bottle and keep everything soaked down. Wish I could be of more help but the choices and results in a situation like this are pretty much limited to penetrating oil and alot of luck. So, good luck.

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