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Steering and Brakes are dry. My steering clutchs are not worn one bit. It appears my systems was completely rusted together and I was using the brakes to steer and control the dozer. At least I won't need to buy new steering clutch pads at $45 U.S. each. Parts vendor I work with is Farmboy Tractors in Tennesee. They have had every part I needed.
Simeon, I have 400 hrs on the tach. Engine overhauled at 250 hrs, because it had sat idle for a long time before I bought it. It was not running so I got it cheap. Did you get a chance to scan the part book?
Weather here in Texas has been nice, so I have been doing other things
No progress on the dozer. When the winter weather gets here I will be working on it more.
Steering and Brakes are dry. My steering clutchs are not worn one bit. It appears my systems was completely rusted together and I was using the brakes to steer and control the dozer. At least I won't need to buy new steering clutch pads at $45 U.S. each. Parts vendor I work with is Farmboy Tractors in Tennesee. They have had every part I needed.
Simeon, I have 400 hrs on the tach. Engine overhauled at 250 hrs, because it had sat idle for a long time before I bought it. It was not running so I got it cheap. Did you get a chance to scan the part book?
Weather here in Texas has been nice, so I have been doing other things
No progress on the dozer. When the winter weather gets here I will be working on it more.
I found a manufacture that could make me this part. I ordered 300 and split my order with Farmboy Tractors They fit perfect. Here is a link to their web site
here are the other parts I got from them (except the shaft)
More pictures of tear down. Here are the steering clutch parts. Seriously rusted and frozen together when I went to take it apart.
Here is the brake band. Completely worn out. Sitting on the rusty brake/steering drum
I am taking the entire thanks giving week off. My goal is to finish the last of the tear down. Pressure wash the part and start put her back together.
Greg Here, So it looks like we need to improve this design before we put our dozers back together
. First we need a more slippery material between the thrust bearing and thrust plate. Maybe some nickle plating of parts. Or better bearing with a teflon coating. I am Aerospace Engineer, but not a metals expert, but I do have co-worker that are. I will get with them see what they say. Also there is porbably a better synthentic oil out there we could us. Hello Simoen,
Your symptom are exactly the same as mine where except I let it go to long.
The shuttle bearings seized up on the pressure plate and the drive shaft causing the engine to labour. Best thing for you to do is replace all the same parts I am.
My parts vendor in the US is Tim Nelson of Farmboy Tractors. He had all the parts except for the clutch plates. I found a manufacture in China that would make me a set of 300. I keep 14 from myself and sold the rest to Tim. Tim contact is Tim Nelson [tim@farmboystractors.com]. Most of the time I send him a picture of the parts. That way I get what I need. I am just about to order steering clutch parts and brake pads as they are worn out too.
I would like a copy of your parts list. I don't have one. I do have the owners manual which I have converted to Microsoft Word. Cleaned up some of the english too while I was at it.
I will be upgrading other things as I put the dozer back together. Electrical fuse box. Adding hydraulic pressure gauge. SAE gauges. Spin on fuel filter/water seperator and a single handle blade controller. I am also updating the controller for the backhoe to a two hangle design. As for the engine, I overhauled her about 100 hour ago. Not much to do there. I think my fuel time is off as I get black smoke during operation.
Only upgrade I have left on the engine is to changing the air filter over to a cone shaped K&N.
Cheers
Greg
Okay
Back at it. Working on tearing the rear end down. I built me a moving moving work bench. As you can see I got LH drive housing removed. I need to replace the steering clutches as the are close to being worn out.
Here is a close up look at the steering clutches
Very rusty. Close up of drive housing
Close up of steering clutch removed.
Lots of dirty gear oil removed as well
By the way, since I have this thing totally torn down, If there are any pictures you want me to talk let me know and I will see what I can do
To all,
Been a very busy summer, but no progress on this project. I am just about to get back on this soon. Look for updates soon
Update
Got my radiator back from the shop. All clean/painted and the leaks are fixed
Also I got some more clutch parts. Shaft has be cleaned up on a lathe. And new part slide nicely on to the her
Try
They had my parts for my 306
They do not have clutch plates
I am working on getting a source for these parts
