I gotta say, of all the videos you post, this one is in the top 5. It's really cool watching a feller figure out how to get er done. Great job. Thank you for the years of entertainment
While having all the tools in the shop is a bonus, the following qualities and traits are all you, sir: Ingenuity, patience, persistence, experience, knowledge, wisdom, and perseverance. Well done sir, well done!
Oh my God. Watching you do this stuff today reminds me of my dad's shop when he would make parts no longer available for his tractor and car rebuilds. Gave me warm feelings in my heart. he would have loved watching this.
Or been there helping, like my dad. They were amazing in their time, and worked with a lot less, especially financially! Dad and his racing buddies are some of my life's fondest memories!
Indiana is actually a Northern state so it's actually Yankee ingenuity. I'm actually a Michigander myself. I used to repair vehicles and pretty much all kinds of things like what Mike did. A little a this and lots of that repurposed from other things to get the job done. Been doing the same since I transplanted to Southeast Florida in 79 when the Coast Guard transferred me to Airstation Miami Florida. Now I'm doing Southern ingenuity on Arcade and pinball games, jukeboxes, pool tables and pretty much anything else you can put cash in and get fun out of for 42 years.
I loved it when Mike said," I don't know what I did to make it mad at me." You brought it back kicking and screaming back to life!!!! I'd be mad too!!!😅😅😅😅
total congratulations on the achievement of getting both of those machines running and functioning. Great result from your mom & pop bearing supplier especially when larger organisations didn't seem bothered or interested to solve the problems. Dan
The grin on your face said it all at the end. Mike, I always stand in awe of your skills and abilities in repairing equipment. As mechanically disinclined and incapable as I am, even I saw the problems with those gears. For you to fabricobble something like that is a joy to see. I was totally surprised that an hour went by. It was fun to watch and, for the most part, I understood what you were doing. I love watching you move dirt and transform the land but this is great as well. Thanks for sharing this, Mike.
As an “ old guy, too tired to tinker” I thoroughly enjoy your shop videos. Arron has also contributed to excellent content. Keep ‘em coming! PS: great shop Crocs
I must say GOOD JOB. That was fun to watch you save the old girl and get her back in to service. Pretty neat to see you repurpose that fitting you had in to a seal carrier.
Excellent job! I worked for an old man back in the early seventies and this was the norm for him even when parts were available. I thought he was crazy as a young guy but looking back he made me what I am. Lot of hours left on the roller! Thanks for taking me down the memory trail with you.❤️❤️👍👍👍
@@DirtPerfect Are you going to try the hydrauliq pole on the hyundai soon which is bigger and much more recent than the relatively old and small DEERE 120 and therefore the hyundai would be more stable and will probably have a better hydraulic flow
Pretty amazing. Can not believe you did it without Aaron(blaming you for everything that would not work) helping! Great video. Thanks for taking me along.
Growing up, surrounded by and heavily influenced by a grandmother who lived through the Great Depression and working for many old timers of the same generation I learned a lot about fabri cobbling! You didn’t throw anything mechanical away and if someone did you grabbed it and threw it in the boneyard! I learned to take care of what I had and how to think through issues and fabricate repairs when needed arts were not available!
Great Job Mike, saving that machine. Thanks for sharing, and taking us along for the ride. All the Machinist were screaming from the mountain tops, turn your Compound Rest. It's about SAFETY, is why you want to turn the Compound Rest. FYI: Most Machinist will keep their Compound Rest @ 29.5 Degree's for when their (SINGLE-POINT) cutting thread's.
MBTS will never tell you that your welding and machining skills are Stellar, but I just did! Absolutely awesome and I nominate you for: Redneck and Shade-Tree Mechanic of the Year! And, even McGiever would be proud! Great Video, as always! Thanks Mike! Lee
I truly do not understand much of anything you did here but doesn't mean I don't respect what you do! After watching you for some time now I've noticed how excellent you are at getting shit done! You just have a knack and the experience to figure it out! Just perfect Mike!!
There is nothing that makes you happier than something mechanical that is broken. and parts haven’t been made for 40 years. it was fun to watch you figure it out, you have a mind like a steel trap. 👍
made my own oil pump using an old air tank and pressurizing it to move the oil works great.... use air nozzle to start and stop oil coming out of hose...
Having been in the equipment repair industry most of life, and having been involved in that type repair situation, you did an excellent job of getting that little sweetie running again, it will last for years, no doubt in my mind. Thanks for the update, I really enjoyed watching, brought back memories.
love the fix utilizing items on hand. some guys will disagree but it was a great solution. Additionally scrubbing, brushing, cleaning reminded me of a Journey song (loving touching squeezing)
I am impressed this is by far one of your better videos, O.M.G., This brings back memories of when I was your age me and my old buddy at his garage working on garbage trucks fixing the rams, fabricating stuff replacing bull dozer engines jury rigging everything just to get the things to work, we were both licensed mechanics and he had all the tools and equipment I helped him and his son build a pit in the garage floor with concrete steps and brick walls then the one thing we did right had a pumping service drop off some concrete , the guy was blessed his boss owned a fleet of 25 garbage trucks and a concrete pumping service. It was a hoot I miss the good times,never had any bad times working together, I was his MBTS, he was 6 feet tall former navy man and I was 6 feet 8 inches tall they called me sir, don't know why. I'm glad you did this it brought back loads of memories.
Nice work sir. I've had a few jobs like this over the years and it's great to see someone else thinking outside the box when it come to making these types of repairs!
Saved - suitable for the purpose purchased. Amazing how each 'part' is important in a mechanism. The skill of someone as Dirt Perfect ensures it will work as required.
just a side note ,ive done about the same before ,as for the tooth pattern and backlash ,ive put valve grinding compound on the teeth and run it in ,flush out and then youlle have a smooth pattern ,still be noisy, but at least youlle have an even pattern and no stress spots,but all in all i give it a win
Mike, what an excellent job and it is running again, you went from a drive train that had self desturcted in it's housing to a funtional peice of equipment, Your welding was good enough to get the job done and was not really structural, so Aaron cannot complain too much, besides he is a profession boiler maker by trade and has welded for years!
Do not miss any of your vids, but this one has to be up there with them all. Your Father's video was the one I believe to be your BEST followed by this Awesome Mike.See what's possible for you when MAN BEHIND THE SEEN NOT THERE 😃👍
Proud of you doing the bead of weld to machine down👍. That's the way a guy out of Australia, Curtis of "Cutting Edge Engineering" whom I watch, that repairs heavy mining equipment like hydralic pistons/rams does it. Saves the customer having to buy a new part that could cost them 2-3 times the cost of repair and being Australia take months to arrive and loss of revenue due to down time. The Beast Lives! 👍🥰. DP does it again!
Great job Mike!. Put an "S" decal in front of the 'HYSTER' on that rig to spell "SHYSTER" as her name going forward to distinguish her from the other Roller 🙂👍🇮🇪
You can take a oversized O-ring, cut it with a razor blade, size it to your application and then glue the cut ends with Cyanoacrylate (crazy glue). They even sell kits with O-ring material that you cut and size to your needs.
DP you are a specialist and using the stuff that you have on hand is making it work for you that’s why you don’t throw away good stuff this was a awesome rebuild you a engineer elite I’d say your style has helped me to think out of the box and it has helped me i have a lot of stuff laying around in the shop and use it when needed but you da man DP learn bunches from paying attention to your videos 👍😎🇺🇸 NY
There's a saying something like necessity is the mother of invention. Perhaps, just perhaps necessity and determination is the mother of rejuvenation and repurposing instead of scrapping. Good job Mike and as always may you all be abundantly blessed with all that's good
A farmer I worked for used a 30# propane bottle for a gear oil dispenser. It easily held 5 gallons of gear oil. He used a female camlock on the tank, with a 1/2" NPT wet leg in the camlock 'plug'. He regulated the inlet air to 50psi. It worked very well.
I bet it feels pretty awesome to have turned and welded that obsolete part yourself and make it fit and work!!! Aweseome one hour and ten minutes to have spent with you in the shop, Mike! :D 💐👏🎆😎
Good job and interesting. You were speaking near the end when you put it into gear. I thought at first the beep beep beep was to cover your swear words. I was wrong and pleased that all went well. I think your plan to fix it was ingenious and it worked well. Thanks for sharing.
I know this is going to sound sketchy… but I’ve used this trick on my Harley rake angle hydraulic cylinder rod successfully. And I think it should also work for the yoke if needed in the future but if you wire wheel out all of the loose gunk and use some break cleaner to get it real clean you can use JB weld to fill in the pits then file of the excess after it cures… I saw a guy on RUclips do it on a bigger hydraulic cylinder rod and it worked well on mine too. Over time it might not wear as well for a seal surface that sees more movement…? But it’s easier than welding it up and trying to turn it back down. Great video! Thank you for sharing!! I learn so much from watching you work! Thank you!!
Well, I am glad you were able to finagle a solution & got it fixed! My own experience with a Hyster product was not so positive. Around 2006, I was working at a manufacturing plant, & one of the standard size fork lifts was a Hyster that was well worn. They tried fixing the brakes multiple times, but it always wound up with you to try to ease off the gas to slow down, but still had to ease on the parking brake to get it to stop. My buddies & I decided to express our disgust with it by using a marker to put an S at the start of the name so it read SHYSTER, lol. The maintenance guys from the main plant tried one last time to fix them, to no avail, & got us another unit to use. It may be their parts problems stretch back that far.
What a great fix, always cool when you find things lying around that you know will be a good fit, lets hope you get more than a couple of seasons of both machines. If either machine does go down again, you could always send that drive peice over to Kurtis at CEE in Australia, he'd be able to knock out one plus a spare. 👍
That was cool! That was fun! I have never crawled under a machine like this (nor will I!) but Mike, your mechanical skills are anyways impressive. And even as a teacher, you made it sound like any of us could copy your efforts with success. You'd be a great neighbor!!! And a lot of fun a s well. Thanks for the lesson, Professor. So when does your new channel start: "M4 - Mike's Mechanical Machine Maintenance"??? Great Show!
Mike, I know I have been shouting at you for your personal safety, with the jeep beside you as ample example of how narrow your escape was! BUT, now I have to praise you for your excellent fabrication skills. You running that bead around the seal carrier, was straight out of Curtis's notebook (CEE Aus)!!! Then the stars aligned and the rest of the project just seemed to fall in place! I was a bit worried that you might skim too much off, but your innate machinist skills showed, up just when you needed them! At least you've gained a few hours work out of the old girl, so it was well worth spending the money on the new bearings. At least if the other one goes south, you got a good set of drive bearings. WELL DONE SIR!!! From UK.
Actually watched that completely without any high speed scrubbing 😁 What I like to see, good work a little ingenuity thrown in and maybe a pinch of luck. Amazing what gets done without all the B.S…….ain’t gonna say no more. 👍
Mike you remind me of my buddy that passed away a few years ago the man could fix or build most anything. Learn a lot from him wish we would have had more time together 48 years was not enough to soak in his experience. Love watching y’all same type of work also brings back precious memories. Your father is definitely smiling watching you
I love a good bit of fabri-cobbling, using what you got and making it work! In 20 years time, someone is going to raise their eyebrows when they crawl under that thing to work out why it leaks a little more gear oil than it should!
Well Mike, all you need now is to get a grader with a 12 or 14 foot blade in descent shape and you could do all kinds of road building. Brings back memories of my working days. Great job old friend. I really enjoyed this video. What happened with the man behind the scenes? He would have enjoyed helping you on this rebuild. Keep up the good work. God bless you and the family and stay safe.
MBTS will give you heck for that puddle of oil on the floor! I watched my granddad make farm repairs like this. Great job... Now clean up that oil before somebody slips in it and breaks their neck!
This was a really well done video from diagnosis, development of potential solutions, and execution. The quality of editing was very high with just the right amount of time spent on each step and it moved along at a very comfortable pace. There was a good amount of time spent putting this together and it shows. Congratulations on a job very well done. And thanks for the effort on the video. Very much appreciated. This can be a benchmark for many other RUclipsrs to strive towards to spend the time to upgrade the quality of their content.
They don't, make them like they use to thank goodness they don't 😅 its not like your running down the road 60 MPH it will last a long time Thanks For the VIDEOS 😊😊😊
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I gotta say, of all the videos you post, this one is in the top 5. It's really cool watching a feller figure out how to get er done. Great job. Thank you for the years of entertainment
You sure are one knowledgeable person about how things work I'm impressed with things you do to make things work
While having all the tools in the shop is a bonus, the following qualities and traits are all you, sir: Ingenuity, patience, persistence, experience, knowledge, wisdom, and perseverance. Well done sir, well done!
Oh my God. Watching you do this stuff today reminds me of my dad's shop when he would make parts no longer available for his tractor and car rebuilds. Gave me warm feelings in my heart. he would have loved watching this.
Or been there helping, like my dad. They were amazing in their time, and worked with a lot less, especially financially! Dad and his racing buddies are some of my life's fondest memories!
Operator, mechanic, machinist and fabricator all in one!!!
And Father and Husband in his spare time!
@@klsc8510 babysitter, dont forget about his babysitting skills with MBTS. haha
i WATCHING WATCHING THE VIDEO Mike ❤😊
Southern Engineering at it's finest. She may not be factory spec but she's a roller. Well done Sir well done.
...only thing missing was bailing wire! 🤣
Indiana is actually a Northern state so it's actually Yankee ingenuity.
I'm actually a Michigander myself.
I used to repair vehicles and pretty much all kinds of things like what Mike did.
A little a this and lots of that repurposed from other things to get the job done.
Been doing the same since I transplanted to Southeast Florida in 79 when the Coast Guard transferred me to Airstation Miami Florida.
Now I'm doing Southern ingenuity on Arcade and pinball games, jukeboxes, pool tables and pretty much anything else you can put cash in and get fun out of for 42 years.
I loved it when Mike said," I don't know what I did to make it mad at me." You brought it back kicking and screaming back to life!!!! I'd be mad too!!!😅😅😅😅
Lazarus, come forth! hahaha!
I think it was aggravated because it appeared he didn't lubricate the bearings...
@@billvandorn5332the bearings get lubricated by the gear oil!
total congratulations on the achievement of getting both of those machines running and functioning. Great result from your mom & pop bearing supplier especially when larger organisations didn't seem bothered or interested to solve the problems. Dan
The grin on your face said it all at the end. Mike, I always stand in awe of your skills and abilities in repairing equipment. As mechanically disinclined and incapable as I am, even I saw the problems with those gears. For you to fabricobble something like that is a joy to see. I was totally surprised that an hour went by. It was fun to watch and, for the most part, I understood what you were doing. I love watching you move dirt and transform the land but this is great as well. Thanks for sharing this, Mike.
As an “ old guy, too tired to tinker” I thoroughly enjoy your shop videos. Arron has also contributed to excellent content. Keep ‘em coming!
PS: great shop Crocs
shade tree mechanic + genius= DP Restoration and Recovery!!
Seeing the work you have done in that shop, I knew if anyone could get that old beast back going it was you. Nice save.
I don’t know how many guys could have done that!
I must say GOOD JOB. That was fun to watch you save the old girl and get her back in to service. Pretty neat to see you repurpose that fitting you had in to a seal carrier.
That machine will operate for at least 10 years,working regularly
...that's why Aaron never wants to throw anything away! 🙃
You never cease to amaze over your abilities to fix things. Awesome.
Excellent job! I worked for an old man back in the early seventies and this was the norm for him even when parts were available. I thought he was crazy as a young guy but looking back he made me what I am. Lot of hours left on the roller! Thanks for taking me down the memory trail with you.❤️❤️👍👍👍
Good STUFF Mike......always love a DP shop video on a rainy day😊
well done mike im 55 done things like this all my life it may not be perfect but that fix will outlast the rest of the machine GOOD JOB SIR
I believe this was my favorite video so far! Thanks Mike 😊
Need to put a sign up…Mikes Miracle Shop 🤔👍🏻🤩
lol
@@DirtPerfect Are you going to try the hydrauliq pole on the hyundai soon which is bigger and much more recent than the relatively old and small DEERE 120 and therefore the hyundai would be more stable and will probably have a better hydraulic flow
Another DP/MacGyver work of art. You made MBTS very proud
Rock on Mike
For a Macgyver level repair, DP would have had to figure out a mismatched ring and pinion gear set combination. This was at the Capt'n Kleeman level.
Commendable you got all that done in an hour. Well done man.
Very impressive repair, especially doing all that by yourself! Most of us would never attempt something like that!
I have more appreciation for the guy that painted these machines. in the videos, they look really good. And, he did a good job on the tires and rims.
Pretty amazing. Can not believe you did it without Aaron(blaming you for everything that would not work) helping! Great video. Thanks for taking me along.
Growing up, surrounded by and heavily influenced by a grandmother who lived through the Great Depression and working for many old timers of the same generation I learned a lot about fabri cobbling! You didn’t throw anything mechanical away and if someone did you grabbed it and threw it in the boneyard! I learned to take care of what I had and how to think through issues and fabricate repairs when needed arts were not available!
Yeah Trash NO! Save it, it may be useful one day
I still keep anything mechanical, beside my shop looks like a graveyard of old iron! I may need to fabri cobble something from it!
A pretty classy repair job Mike your skill showed on this one, nicely done old boy.
Great Job Mike, saving that machine. Thanks for sharing, and taking us along for the ride. All the Machinist were screaming from the mountain tops, turn your Compound Rest. It's about SAFETY, is why you want to turn the Compound Rest. FYI: Most Machinist will keep their Compound Rest @ 29.5 Degree's for when their (SINGLE-POINT) cutting thread's.
I believe you can fix anything and you save so much money by doing the repairs yourself. Well done
MBTS will never tell you that your welding and machining skills are Stellar, but I just did! Absolutely awesome and I nominate you for: Redneck and Shade-Tree Mechanic of the Year! And, even McGiever would be proud! Great Video, as always! Thanks Mike! Lee
I truly do not understand much of anything you did here but doesn't mean I don't respect what you do! After watching you for some time now I've noticed how excellent you are at getting shit done! You just have a knack and the experience to figure it out! Just perfect Mike!!
Thank you
Brilliant in all my eighty years I have today seen an old fashioned engine fitter at work, a good job well done!
Looking good DP! Also glad to see our little friend is still “hanging out” in the background 😂
Great mechanics always amaze me. Take it apart, make it better, back together. Great job.
There is nothing that makes you happier than something mechanical that is broken. and parts haven’t been made for 40 years. it was fun to watch you figure it out, you have a mind like a steel trap. 👍
Now that's some quality engineering my friend. Your hard work will definitely payoff.
made my own oil pump using an old air tank and pressurizing it to move the oil works great.... use air nozzle to start and stop oil coming out of hose...
Having been in the equipment repair industry most of life, and having been involved in that type repair situation, you did an excellent job of getting that little sweetie running again, it will last for years, no doubt in my mind. Thanks for the update, I really enjoyed watching, brought back memories.
love the fix utilizing items on hand. some guys will disagree but it was a great solution. Additionally scrubbing, brushing, cleaning reminded me of a Journey song (loving touching squeezing)
I'll bet that one of your viewers will say, "I got one of those I could have let you have." But I gotta say very impressive repair. Ya done good.
I am impressed this is by far one of your better videos, O.M.G., This brings back memories of when I was your age me and my old buddy at his garage working on garbage trucks fixing the rams, fabricating stuff replacing bull dozer engines jury rigging everything just to get the things to work, we were both licensed mechanics and he had all the tools and equipment I helped him and his son build a pit in the garage floor with concrete steps and brick walls then the one thing we did right had a pumping service drop off some concrete , the guy was blessed his boss owned a fleet of 25 garbage trucks and a concrete pumping service. It was a hoot I miss the good times,never had any bad times working together, I was his MBTS, he was 6 feet tall former navy man and I was 6 feet 8 inches tall they called me sir, don't know why. I'm glad you did this it brought back loads of memories.
Mike very good video that Machine his now working .
Nice work sir.
I've had a few jobs like this over the years and it's great to see someone else thinking outside the box when it come to making these types of repairs!
Saved - suitable for the purpose purchased. Amazing how each 'part' is important in a mechanism. The skill of someone as Dirt Perfect ensures it will work as required.
just a side note ,ive done about the same before ,as for the tooth pattern and backlash ,ive put valve grinding compound on the teeth and run it in ,flush out and then youlle have a smooth pattern ,still be noisy, but at least youlle have an even pattern and no stress spots,but all in all i give it a win
Anybody who has worked on differentials instantly smelled that video as you cleaned out the carnage.
Mike, what an excellent job and it is running again, you went from a drive train that had self desturcted in it's housing to a funtional peice of equipment, Your welding was good enough to get the job done and was not really structural, so Aaron cannot complain too much, besides he is a profession boiler maker by trade and has welded for years!
Do not miss any of your vids, but this one has to be up there with them all. Your Father's video was the one I believe to be your BEST followed by this Awesome Mike.See what's possible for you when MAN BEHIND THE SEEN NOT THERE 😃👍
Proud of you doing the bead of weld to machine down👍. That's the way a guy out of Australia, Curtis of "Cutting Edge Engineering" whom I watch, that repairs heavy mining equipment like hydralic pistons/rams does it. Saves the customer having to buy a new part that could cost them 2-3 times the cost of repair and being Australia take months to arrive and loss of revenue due to down time. The Beast Lives! 👍🥰. DP does it again!
Thank you, Mom&Pop shops! Good work Master Mech.
Great job Mike!. Put an "S" decal in front of the 'HYSTER' on that rig to spell "SHYSTER" as her name going forward to distinguish her from the other Roller 🙂👍🇮🇪
From an ex plant fitter/machine operator, Brilliant job, well done Mike
I enjoy your workshop videos, great job getting all the gearing going by yourself..
You can take a oversized O-ring, cut it with a razor blade, size it to your application and then glue the cut ends with Cyanoacrylate (crazy glue). They even sell kits with O-ring material that you cut and size to your needs.
I was hollering at you, My wife looked at me like im crazy sitting here saying thats backwards, thats backwards to the computer screen. LOL
Me? "Use your feet!"
The locknut? Yes he installed it backwards - the chamfered side goes toward the tabbed lockwasher.
Yes we can ,, morning coffee on! Here we go! Cheers!;-)!
Wow dirt worker, mechanic and toolmaker. Making the parts for the roller was impressive!
Awesome Job Mike 👍
DP you are a specialist and using the stuff that you have on hand is making it work for you that’s why you don’t throw away good stuff this was a awesome rebuild you a engineer elite I’d say your style has helped me to think out of the box and it has helped me i have a lot of stuff laying around in the shop and use it when needed but you da man DP learn bunches from paying attention to your videos 👍😎🇺🇸 NY
There's a saying something like necessity is the mother of invention. Perhaps, just perhaps necessity and determination is the mother of rejuvenation and repurposing instead of scrapping.
Good job Mike and as always may you all be abundantly blessed with all that's good
Really like seeing you and me behind the scenes work together but you get a whole lot more done by yourself great job on saving this project
The shop shoes allow the proper feel when doing a feet assist installation as specified in the Hyster ring and pinion alignment preload section.
Right on! Well said!
Yes I also was laughing at the shop shoes
Damn!. After 11pm Sunday night here :( I'll have to check this out after work tomorrow.
2:20 in the afternoon here. Where you at?
The grin on your face as you test drive says it all. Congratulations!
A farmer I worked for used a 30# propane bottle for a gear oil dispenser. It easily held 5 gallons of gear oil. He used a female camlock on the tank, with a 1/2" NPT wet leg in the camlock 'plug'. He regulated the inlet air to 50psi. It worked very well.
That's called common sense, n what it takes in running a business like yes. 😂.very knowledgeable Man.
Great job bringing a parts machine back to life. Was wondering, if offline, you rewired this build like you did the first!
When you were cleaning out the housing I felt Capt. Kleeman being channeled there in the dialog. :D
Nice job Mike - long shot - glad it worked out for you...thanks for taking us along!
I can now say there is nothing you can not do!! Love it
Hi Mike, a job well done, as usual. Just hope it operates for a long time.
You are one heck of an intuitive mechanic.
And once again you put the old farmer fix on it and it works fine!
Heck yeah DP. I knew you would fix it. I really enjoyed watching that video. I hope it lasts you a long time.
I bet it feels pretty awesome to have turned and welded that obsolete part yourself and make it fit and work!!!
Aweseome one hour and ten minutes to have spent with you in the shop, Mike! :D
💐👏🎆😎
Good job and interesting. You were speaking near the end when you put it into gear. I thought at first the beep beep beep was to cover your swear words. I was wrong and pleased that all went well. I think your plan to fix it was ingenious and it worked well. Thanks for sharing.
This was amazing to watch you overcome and conquer the problems with this machine. MBTS will be impressed.😁
That's some Andrew Camerata stuff right there!!! Well Done
I know this is going to sound sketchy… but I’ve used this trick on my Harley rake angle hydraulic cylinder rod successfully. And I think it should also work for the yoke if needed in the future but if you wire wheel out all of the loose gunk and use some break cleaner to get it real clean you can use JB weld to fill in the pits then file of the excess after it cures… I saw a guy on RUclips do it on a bigger hydraulic cylinder rod and it worked well on mine too. Over time it might not wear as well for a seal surface that sees more movement…? But it’s easier than welding it up and trying to turn it back down.
Great video! Thank you for sharing!! I learn so much from watching you work! Thank you!!
Hello Mike
I enjoyed this video! Only thing missing is MBTS Aaron 😊
Hope you can bring the machine back to life and running! Im sure you will! 😊
Well, I am glad you were able to finagle a solution & got it fixed! My own experience with a Hyster product was not so positive. Around 2006, I was working at a manufacturing plant, & one of the standard size fork lifts was a Hyster that was well worn. They tried fixing the brakes multiple times, but it always wound up with you to try to ease off the gas to slow down, but still had to ease on the parking brake to get it to stop. My buddies & I decided to express our disgust with it by using a marker to put an S at the start of the name so it read SHYSTER, lol. The maintenance guys from the main plant tried one last time to fix them, to no avail, & got us another unit to use. It may be their parts problems stretch back that far.
Love the steel toe crocks❤❤❤❤ Man of many talents!
Nice job Mike
Great job, well done sir. Excellent video.
This solo video has been very impressive DP, your skills are top notch buddy.
What a great fix, always cool when you find things lying around that you know will be a good fit, lets hope you get more than a couple of seasons of both machines. If either machine does go down again, you could always send that drive peice over to Kurtis at CEE in Australia, he'd be able to knock out one plus a spare. 👍
Great to watch Mike. MBTS much be pee’d off at missing this one! Thanks for sharing. 🇬🇧👍👍👍
This was a first class field repair
Good job 👍
That was cool! That was fun! I have never crawled under a machine like this (nor will I!) but Mike, your mechanical skills are anyways impressive. And even as a teacher, you made it sound like any of us could copy your efforts with success. You'd be a great neighbor!!! And a lot of fun a s well. Thanks for the lesson, Professor.
So when does your new channel start: "M4 - Mike's Mechanical Machine Maintenance"??? Great Show!
Mike, I know I have been shouting at you for your personal safety, with the jeep beside you as ample example of how narrow your escape was! BUT, now I have to praise you for your excellent fabrication skills. You running that bead around the seal carrier, was straight out of Curtis's notebook (CEE Aus)!!! Then the stars aligned and the rest of the project just seemed to fall in place! I was a bit worried that you might skim too much off, but your innate machinist skills showed, up just when you needed them! At least you've gained a few hours work out of the old girl, so it was well worth spending the money on the new bearings. At least if the other one goes south, you got a good set of drive bearings. WELL DONE SIR!!! From UK.
Actually watched that completely without any high speed scrubbing 😁
What I like to see, good work a little ingenuity thrown in and maybe a pinch of luck.
Amazing what gets done without all the B.S…….ain’t gonna say no more. 👍
The grin on your face is the Cat that ate the Canary.👍👍👍
Mike you remind me of my buddy that passed away a few years ago the man could fix or build most anything. Learn a lot from him wish we would have had more time together 48 years was not enough to soak in his experience. Love watching y’all same type of work also brings back precious memories. Your father is definitely smiling watching you
Well done! Better than in the junkyard.
Thanks Mike, well done! Perhaps you can get the sound generator from a Tesla and swap it with that backup alarm…it would be quieter and funny. 😊
I love a good bit of fabri-cobbling, using what you got and making it work! In 20 years time, someone is going to raise their eyebrows when they crawl under that thing to work out why it leaks a little more gear oil than it should!
Well Mike, all you need now is to get a grader with a 12 or 14 foot blade in descent shape and you could do all kinds of road building. Brings back memories of my working days. Great job old friend. I really enjoyed this video. What happened with the man behind the scenes? He would have enjoyed helping you on this rebuild. Keep up the good work. God bless you and the family and stay safe.
MBTS will give you heck for that puddle of oil on the floor! I watched my granddad make farm repairs like this. Great job... Now clean up that oil before somebody slips in it and breaks their neck!
Hell of a job Mike! Awesome!!
This was a really well done video from diagnosis, development of potential solutions, and execution. The quality of editing was very high with just the right amount of time spent on each step and it moved along at a very comfortable pace. There was a good amount of time spent putting this together and it shows. Congratulations on a job very well done. And thanks for the effort on the video. Very much appreciated. This can be a benchmark for many other RUclipsrs to strive towards to spend the time to upgrade the quality of their content.
Very impressive save. Really enjoyed that one.
They don't, make them like they use to thank goodness they don't 😅 its not like your running down the road 60 MPH it will last a long time Thanks For the VIDEOS 😊😊😊