For the price it definitely is a steal! Brakes video will be out Saturday and then the Inching Valve linkage build the week after. I appreciate you watching and commenting.
Thanks for the question, no it doesn't need to be running. What I didn't expand on was the fact that there were very few of these machines made and Silent Hoist went bankrupt years ago so virtually nobody had any information one them. I probably made 50 calls all over the country looking for information on it. I finally found a company down in FL that scraps forklifts and the person I talked with helped me identify the transmission. Once I got the transmission identified I was able to get a service manual. Then it was easy to diagnose the problem. At the end I talk about the transmission only having 3 quarts in it when it needed 11 quarts. Now the transmission works great. The next video is about the brakes and like everything else with the forklift they were a mess. After that I tackle getting the inching valve to work.
@@scratchfab Back around 2004 I worked at a forklift repair shop and I think some of the machines had to be running to check the trans fluid just like car and truck transmission otherwise it read to high on the stick. That is why I asked
Good point, that may be the case with mine. I discounted that since the dipstick I have is wrong. It showed full on the dipstick with 3 quarts in it so when I put 11 quarts in it the full line was way below the actual level. I will try checking it off and running to see if the level changes. The good news is it works and I don't have to pull the engine and transmission. LOL
A lot of people do not know that an electric fuel pumps are designed to be as close as possible to the tank because they push a lot better than they pull.
It was wishful thinking trying to put the fuel pump back where they had it as you stated it didn't pump well and ruined it pretty quick. I ended up putting a replacement pump below the tank so its primarily pushing. Its crazy what the military did to this thing the wiring is a disaster, they had the wrong dip stick in the transmission and they wired the inching valve closed. No wonder they sold it. LOL
Ha, I guess I can't read you wrote ether and I read either. Yeah that stuff is not good but I need to rebuild the carb and replace the exhaust which was torn off so it fouls up quickly. Sometimes the only way to get it to start is ether until I do the work.
YEPPERS! u got ur self a fantastic piece of equipment there Mate! runs and drives now, the world is ur's now. brakes and wiring to do now..
For the price it definitely is a steal! Brakes video will be out Saturday and then the Inching Valve linkage build the week after. I appreciate you watching and commenting.
Great !
Does it have to be running to check the transmission fluid? Maybe it is the right stick.
Thanks for the question, no it doesn't need to be running. What I didn't expand on was the fact that there were very few of these machines made and Silent Hoist went bankrupt years ago so virtually nobody had any information one them. I probably made 50 calls all over the country looking for information on it. I finally found a company down in FL that scraps forklifts and the person I talked with helped me identify the transmission. Once I got the transmission identified I was able to get a service manual. Then it was easy to diagnose the problem. At the end I talk about the transmission only having 3 quarts in it when it needed 11 quarts. Now the transmission works great. The next video is about the brakes and like everything else with the forklift they were a mess. After that I tackle getting the inching valve to work.
@@scratchfab Back around 2004 I worked at a forklift repair shop and I think some of the machines had to be running to check the trans fluid just like car and truck transmission otherwise it read to high on the stick. That is why I asked
Good point, that may be the case with mine. I discounted that since the dipstick I have is wrong. It showed full on the dipstick with 3 quarts in it so when I put 11 quarts in it the full line was way below the actual level. I will try checking it off and running to see if the level changes. The good news is it works and I don't have to pull the engine and transmission. LOL
A lot of people do not know that an electric fuel pumps are designed to be as close as possible to the tank because they push a lot better than they pull.
It was wishful thinking trying to put the fuel pump back where they had it as you stated it didn't pump well and ruined it pretty quick. I ended up putting a replacement pump below the tank so its primarily pushing. Its crazy what the military did to this thing the wiring is a disaster, they had the wrong dip stick in the transmission and they wired the inching valve closed. No wonder they sold it. LOL
Using ether on a gas engine is not a good idea. I have broken nose cones on starters by using ether when it kicks back.
Mark, I'm not following you here what are you referring to?
@@scratchfab I had a engine backfire when using ether and break the nose cone off my starter
Ha, I guess I can't read you wrote ether and I read either. Yeah that stuff is not good but I need to rebuild the carb and replace the exhaust which was torn off so it fouls up quickly. Sometimes the only way to get it to start is ether until I do the work.