These are the picks I used: amzn.to/49zKhzb The shafts will bend if you get too crazy with them, but they easily bend back. Overall they work pretty well. Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PL0dOYq6JmMaJgySk7vXvmYJhb__vLPyyt
I have a forklift mast (not sure of brand though) that I modded to mount on the tractor 3 point. It needs seals so this was a very topical video. Much appreciated. Thanks for anticipating the pick question ... too bad they seem to be double the price in Canada . Was also wondering whether it was any special grease you used during assembly. I'm sure you much have mentioned it, but what are those orange gloves you prefer? I think it's time I started wearing gloves more often. Hope you start feeling better soon. In the same boat here too. My wife is in worse shape ... after spending half a day in emergency yesterday we now know that for her the root cause is her asthma, so with some updated drugs/equipment/regimen things are improving already.
Hopefully u didn't get hit from the rounds of tornadoes this past January and February. Hope u all have a shelter. Thank you for sharing the link on the picks
Retired Clark forklift mechanic here. That check valve in the primary and secondary cylinders are there to let fluid that seeps past the packings to be forced back into the system instead of past the gland seals. They also let air escape on initial installation. When your mast operates out of sequence, when the secondary’s go up before the primary has reached its upper limit that is a sure sign that check valve is not functioning correctly and fluid is trapped above the piston. I see you figured it out how the check valve worked. The GCS and GCX series lifts were among the first ones built when Clark moved it manufacturing offshore to Korea. They were still a pretty good product. Your guess about the radiator is correct, it can be removed without pulling the counterweight, it very tight but it can be done. As far as your comment about hydraulic fluid all over the floor. I laughed my A$$ off, I’ve left trails of hydraulic fluid all over most of California in my career, you try to minimize it but even your vacuum system can’t catch it all. And most of my time as a forklift tech was working out of a service truck. All I had was a waste oil drum to pour it in. How I got it in that drum was always a sketchy situation.
Toyota/Mitsubishi/Linde/Samsung have been through the fingers over the years, take the return hose off the valve block before lunch, and come back to a nearly empty HyD tank, it was the first time working on a 5FBMF, you could do it like that on a 7 series (new at the time) i used a lot of absorption grit that day.
Years ago I worked in a beef packing plant as a maintenance guy. They told me never walk under a raised forklift because " $20 of rubber seals is all that holds it up". Darned inflation gets everything I guess.
Clark basically gouges people on seals. If you take the seals to a hydraulic shop and have them matched up it's about $100 for everything. But that means taking the mast apart, driving to and back from a hydraulic shop and then putting everything back together. And it takes longer to do all three cylinders at the same time vs one at a time. So you turn a 2 hour job into an all day job to save $400....but forklift mechanics charge $125 an hour. So that hydraulic shop would have to be real close before you save any money...and if they don't have one of the seals in stock , you're just stuck.
You just made a blanket insult for mechanics. You shouldn't throw stones when you live in a glass house. Looking through your past comments reveals more than a few utterly deplorable sentence structure flaws. 😊
@@googleuser3110 if I did, please correct me. I'll take it as constructive criticism and get better. I won't throw it back at you like, well you know. 😁 I watch enough videos and have enough close friends that are mechanics to see a trend.
At 6, watched Captain Kleeman work on trucks, at 7, I watched you rebuild cylinders, yet in my shop is a broken truck, and next to it sits a dozer with two cylinders that need to be rebuilt. Yet here I sit, watching y'all. If you needed proof that it's more entertaining to watch you work than to work, here it is! (Thanks for the video!)
I know that feeling! I also watched Kleeman just before watching Wes. I have a 96 Thunderbird in my shop that needs work, an 07 Acura behind that and another Thunderbird after the Acura. It's wet and rainy out and it's way more fun to sit and watch sometimes rather than go and do!
i have a car (FWD) that needs a timing chain, i have another car that needs rust removed and heaps of other small problems, and on to that another car that needs its fueltank replaced with a better one still i sit here watching other people fix their machines/cars... watching is a whole lot easier to do than doing it 😅
I have to say you take a lot of extra time to draw the diagrams to explain things and how they work. I thoroughly enjoy seeing them and understanding how they work. Thanks for taking the time to do that....
While in school in the early 60’s, the pad of green paper with the grid on the back side was called engineering paper. Great paper! I enjoy Wes’s always clear and understandable explanations.
@@WatchWesWork Wes Johnson Services...I miss the CNC circuit board repairs. I've spent quite a few years doing NC and CNC stuff in the 1970's...most of the guys I worked with would never even take a chance on any machinery....bad enough adding a quart of oil to their vehicle!
You hit the nail in the head with that explanation on cylinders, it is indeed for cushion and smoother operation. Remember that these machines were once new and built for loading and unloading valuable goods, not so much towing rusty cars in & out of shop 😁
Wes's machine, not so new, is just multitasking, those "Don't Tow" stickers must be missing. The shop I once worked at had an old surplus ClarkTowTug, used it for plowing.
I like the intelligent approach you take to explaining things. I come for entertainment but also to learn a thing or two. Scrappy is the same way. Feel better Wes.
Wes is the kind of person people who work with their hands should aspire to be. Well rounded, well spoken, well educated, well equipped with a shop full of half finished projects ❤
And when you fix the leak you were after a new one pops up somewhere else because as all hydraulic mechanics know, these systems dont like getting taken down to atmospheric pressure then back to 1000+psi. Tends to piss off the o rings.
I love when the pencil and paper come out. I learn something every video. Love the Chevy at the end of the video. My parents had one when I was just a kid.
This forklift is so worth the love, I remember you getting it. As always enjoyed the watch, my husband not so much as he was run over by a forklift 5 months ago and still recovering. Get well soon Wes, look after yourself x
Ouch indeed. Two broken arms, broken ribs, broken nose, bleed on spleen and lots of cuts & bruises. Still off work as the wrong side of 60 to be run over. Here to talk about it so very grateful x
For sure.., the videos of its’ repairs were some of the first videos I was made aware of Wes’s channel. Fan ever since. Speedy recovery for your hubby.
Forklift shop? At least 'they' had one...I've been around these things for 50 years, the most neglected piece/s of equipment I've ever seen...Last place I worked they had a 12,000 pound Clark solid tire 'warehouse' forklift....one of the steering wheels had zero rubber on it...employers didn't see why that could be a problem.... They drove it outside in the rain, and through 7-8" or more of water in puddles...brakes rusted up so bad they barely worked... Changing hydraulic oil, it doesn't look dirty like engine oil (also never changed) so why change it....and don't bother changing the engine oil, it's a lot of trouble if you can't get the forklift up a foot or so...but you know, if you're thinking...just a few 4X4's and you get it up there...
@@dougankrum3328It was a custom wire mill, we made wire for aircraft carrier arrestor cable sort of stuff . It was located just behind the docks so it was a cramped mill, and relied on forklifts to move the rod and wire around. They were kept up and regularly replaced, they were beefed up 10,000 ? Cats.Those steering wheels barely touched a lot of the time. But our two poor little 4,500# maintenance forklifts got no love.
I'm so glad you explained how a displacement cylinder works. My brain was beginning to hurt trying to figure out how a hydraulic cylinder could work without a piston. So it has a piston, just not a "piston" piston. 🤪
True displacement cylinders without a piston had a much larger ram - made from tube rather than solid, not much smaller than the cylinder bore. If you think about it then it has to be so otherwise the cylinder bore size is ''wasted.'' The first tractor front end loader lift rams mostly used cylinders like that - power up but no power down.
@@julianstafford7071 The displacement cylinders with a machined bore and the rod matching the ID of the bore are also safer. If the piston seal fails on a traditional cylinder the oil can jump from one side of the piston to the other rapidly and the cylinder slams down. In a displacement cylinder that space is all filled with rod so the cylinder will creep down, not slam down. I believe these are used in anything people hauling for this reason.
This explained a lot. 30 years ago, our forklift repair guy came out to replace some leaky hoses and O rings. He told me to take the forklift out into the parking lot and raise the mast all the way up and leave it for a minute or two to drain off any of the fluid that got above the piston. 30 years later I still do it. Thanks for the video and I hope you feel well soon.
I find your theoretical explanations to be one of the best on youtube. If my university taught us this way, I wouldn't struggle so much with it ! it was just equations and very non-straightforward visuals ...
I got covid 18 months or so ago and have only just gotten over a second collapsed lung. It is no joke! If you're sick, go get checked out. It took me 6 or 8 months of a persistent cough before I saw a quack about it, which after a raft of tests showed the first collapse.
The medicine to alleviate the coof was discredited and smeared by the elite with self interests because it was cheap and it works, I took it early on because I have stock of it for my farm and was better in two days, "they" wouldn't have made trillions if we were allowed to use it. Just remember a cured patient is a non returning patient, it's all about money and control!!
Man, that sucks. I finally got it after battling it for years and all i got was... my smell coming back. I had no smell from before the pandemic. Something about my sinuses being messed up made it really difficult to pick up anything but the strongest of odors (like gas leaks, for example) and two days after my fever broke (after 4 days of feeling like death warmed over) ... i got hit with the smell of stale pillow cases (overdue due to the sickness). I freaked out so bad and started sniffing stuff up in the house. It's been two months now and the smell's gone again... CV is some frakked up banjo recital if you ask me.
You been doing this RUclips thing for so long you knew the first thing viewers... like me... would want to know was where to get the picks... 🤣🤣🤣 Clearly Wes would have been able to make a nice living as an instructor in a college level tech school. He has an ability to teach even RUclips blockheads how complicated systems work.
Rewatching the old forklift playlist makes me realize A) how much your camera equipment has improved, and B) how much I miss that old rollback truck you used to drive.
Can't imagine why anybody would want to leave that hoist outside for how many years. Works like a charm, and breaks down less than anything built in this day and age.
Clark was a renowned leader in material handling. In some countries in Europe they don’t use the word forklift, they call all forklifts Clark. The same for skid loaders. They are called Bobcat even if they are JCB or EuroMach, or what ever.
It's definitely pleasure watching Wes pull apart equipment components and explaining what and why he's doing to repair them. Ain't no doubt he'd be an excellent aircraft mechanic with his attention to detail and competence at pretty much everything he does.
I still remember when you dug this forklift out of the weeds all those years ago. All your old revivals showed me that abandoned equipment can still be useful.
I had 12 Clark fork trucks years ago. You can get the radiator out without taking the counter weight off, you just need to take the seat and the plate off, if I remember right? It's been 20 years, good luck Wes.
I don't know who is sick more you or Puddin but you both still have those germ breeder's running around. My woes come from Vietnam 57 years ago. Keep up the good work.
I have the same forklift. My brakes are shot. The lift cylinder (multistage) pours oil. I started to rebuild the cylinder last year and got extremely discouraged. Years ago my dad's company built his own cylinders for his hydraulic equipment. You know your stuff! You are an inspiration for me to finish my own forklift. Keep it up Wes!
I had a 1973 Clark Fork Truck. The cylinder was leaking, the soft plugs were blowing off, the hydraulic lines were blowing out randomly every few months and I could go on. I use it maybe an hour a day and I am not as motivated or knowledgeable as you. I bought an 8 year old CAT with only 900 hours on it and said goodbye to the Clark after 45 years of service, it owed me nothing but was glad to see it go.
Look at you all fancy with a spanner wrench! I use pipe wrenches, chain wrenches, strap wrenches, etc. I would need a dozen spanners to cover all the different sized cylinders I rebuild. Good work Wes!
Never change anything more complicated than a light bulb anymore, as long as the light fixture is on the ground, but I love your videos and your process of figuring things out. Hope you never run out of projects and feel better soon.
Back in the day when I ran a warehouse at a die cutting plant I used a 1973 Clark like this one except yellow. That thing never broke down but the larger Datsun was always broken.
For many years (11 or 12) I lived in the desert and never got sick and forgot what it was like to be sick. I now live in the tropics and getting sick is a normal part of life here.
It was a pleasure watching you work on the forklift again. I believe these were the first of your videos I watched - of you getting that one out of the field. And thanks for the hydraulics lesson also. Education is a wonderful thing, even if you are 79 years old. I hope I never stop listening and learning.
I need to do some hydraulic work this summer, and as I have not done any for 50 years, I appreciate the refresher course. I have watched every one of your videos, so I am pleased to see a new one. Thank you much!
Had that been me putting a C clamp on that rod, I promise you it would have scored the rod, and wiped out nearly all the threads on minimum of two sides. My luck being what it is, would have spun around the whole rod taking out n all of the threads all the way around from one end to the other in the process, as it spun around the end taking them all as it dropped beyond reach into the cylinder. That's typical how things go for me these days. PS That was 17 years it had sat in the woods of y'all's place, I remember that, because you said it numerous times, and as you were power washing all of the moss that had grown it. That's kinda what that is that you washed off, but it actually goes by another name I can't remember most of the time. There was several different pieces of equipment that you tried to revive. Best will it start I think you ever did was the old can't remember if it was drag line or shovel, drag line sticks in my head. Had a old buddy engine in it I believe, could be mistaken about the engine manufacture, but it sticks in my head it was. That amfi it was cold and miserable most every time you were there, and it had trees grown through parts of the boom and tight against the body
That same weather happened here in western NY. And today and tomorrow it is to be in the 70's, breaking records both days. (Though breaking the record for high temps is not the rare event it once was.)
We used every variety of lifts at work and Clark was the best from what I saw in 30+ years. Our forklifts ran 24/7 365 and it was nothing to see 15,000 hours on a lift when rotated out.
I always love your green paper engineering drawings. Not only are you an excellent artist, the drawings and your explanations really help me understand how things work. I'd watch a RUclips channel of nothing but you explaining mechanical systems with your drawings honestly. It's very educational.
Hey Wes. I’m guessing they did a cost analysis on a check valve vs running another hydraulic hose back to the tank. Check valve would be much cheaper. Maybe?
Wes, you are correct in your assertion of the cylinder operation except for one small thing left out, they use a orifice and a check valve to cushion not bottom out the cylinder. The other cylinders that do not use this use a cushioning valve that hits the gland first allowing some oil to escape and stop bottoming out.
Eastern Iowan here. That weather was absolutely insane. We had a high of 74° and a low of 9°. Glad I'm not the only "old man" that notices how crazy that was. 😅
It's the polar vortex that's very unstable this winter. Saw a video in december which predicted this. Massive amounts of cold air can suddenly rush southward from the polar region and cause cold spells, then it retreats which draws warm air from the Gulf. Results in this yo-yo effect. Can theoretically continue throughout spring.
We had to do the lift and steering cylinders on a Clark at our carpet store. Worked with a mechanic friend who was trained on them. It was a messed two day job. The muffler was cracked and we opted to not remove the counter weight and just deal with the noise.
I have seen a few cylinders built like that. It is to keep them from slamming against the end. That's one thing with hydraulics, they have ten different ways to do the same thing. The evolution of hydraulics is pretty fascinating.
Apart from the fascination of watching someone replace the seals on a fork lift, and it was fascinating, it's also interesting to hear about the weather. In Melbourne, where it is summer, the weather has been equally crazy. One day it was 38 deg C and the next day it maxed out at 18 deg C. It has been variations on this for most of the summer. You end up constantly chasing your tail. This morning I had the heating on and this afternoon I will probably have the cooling on. No wonder I just stay indoors most of the time, it's too confusing. 😄
Saw a video in december which predicted this yo-yo effect. Although it was about the northern polar vortex becoming unstable, apparently the southern polar vortex is doing the same, on occasion pushing massive amounts of cold air out, then retreating just as suddenly, drawing in hot air from around the equator. It could continue like that for a few months.
You have put lots of effort in to that forklift and have watch the originals videos when you had 20k subs now you are 10 times that!! You’re doing great!!
I remember you pulling that forklift out and restoring it, been watching you ever since... Wes, you have one of the best channels on the RUclips! _Keep up the amazing work team Hufflepuff!_
worked in a lot of plants with some tired fork trucks. most had so much blowby theyd propane cropdust you snd maybe spray you with an oil mist. that one even leaking is not in bad shape.
I'm thinking you need a wall of remembrance for all the drawings you make. Those a quality productions in their own right. Thanks for the primer on cylinder rebuilding and plumbing on that fork truck. Good stuff.
awesome explanation on the hydraulic system. I'll probably never work on something like it, but you do a great job explaining, and making a unique design understandable.
These are the picks I used: amzn.to/49zKhzb
The shafts will bend if you get too crazy with them, but they easily bend back. Overall they work pretty well.
Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PL0dOYq6JmMaJgySk7vXvmYJhb__vLPyyt
I have a forklift mast (not sure of brand though) that I modded to mount on the tractor 3 point. It needs seals so this was a very topical video. Much appreciated. Thanks for anticipating the pick question ... too bad they seem to be double the price in Canada . Was also wondering whether it was any special grease you used during assembly. I'm sure you much have mentioned it, but what are those orange gloves you prefer? I think it's time I started wearing gloves more often.
Hope you start feeling better soon. In the same boat here too. My wife is in worse shape ... after spending half a day in emergency yesterday we now know that for her the root cause is her asthma, so with some updated drugs/equipment/regimen things are improving already.
Thank you for the playlist, hadn’t realised I’d missed it! Throughly enjoyed catching up.
Hopefully u didn't get hit from the rounds of tornadoes this past January and February. Hope u all have a shelter. Thank you for sharing the link on the picks
didnt have any jabs did you.. take bulk V c, zinc.. D3. we dont get enough d3 from sun,, need supliments.. or fish, meat,ect rich in it..
FYI your Playlist is not running in chronological order...
Retired Clark forklift mechanic here. That check valve in the primary and secondary cylinders are there to let fluid that seeps past the packings to be forced back into the system instead of past the gland seals. They also let air escape on initial installation. When your mast operates out of sequence, when the secondary’s go up before the primary has reached its upper limit that is a sure sign that check valve is not functioning correctly and fluid is trapped above the piston.
I see you figured it out how the check valve worked. The GCS and GCX series lifts were among the first ones built when Clark moved it manufacturing offshore to Korea. They were still a pretty good product. Your guess about the radiator is correct, it can be removed without pulling the counterweight, it very tight but it can be done.
As far as your comment about hydraulic fluid all over the floor. I laughed my A$$ off, I’ve left trails of hydraulic fluid all over most of California in my career, you try to minimize it but even your vacuum system can’t catch it all. And most of my time as a forklift tech was working out of a service truck. All I had was a waste oil drum to pour it in. How I got it in that drum was always a sketchy situation.
I know the pain. Been working on these trucks for over 20 years myself. The struggle is real.
@@horstmuller7512 Uncalled for.
dopers of all colors love it - shoulda been. Not just one.
Toyota/Mitsubishi/Linde/Samsung have been through the fingers over the years, take the return hose off the valve block before lunch, and come back to a nearly empty HyD tank, it was the first time working on a 5FBMF, you could do it like that on a 7 series (new at the time) i used a lot of absorption grit that day.
Clark leaves a trail of hydraulic oil wherever it goes😂@@FreiherrDinkelacker
Years ago I worked in a beef packing plant as a maintenance guy. They told me never walk under a raised forklift because " $20 of rubber seals is all that holds it up". Darned inflation gets everything I guess.
I was told, "never trust a suspended load, it's always held up by $10 worth of China's finest steel."
Lot safer now days! $539 dollars worth of seals and your life.
Clark basically gouges people on seals.
If you take the seals to a hydraulic shop and have them matched up it's about $100 for everything.
But that means taking the mast apart, driving to and back from a hydraulic shop and then putting everything back together.
And it takes longer to do all three cylinders at the same time vs one at a time.
So you turn a 2 hour job into an all day job to save $400....but forklift mechanics charge $125 an hour.
So that hydraulic shop would have to be real close before you save any money...and if they don't have one of the seals in stock , you're just stuck.
Hercules and York usually have those kits, and whole lot cheaper. If you have time.
@@operator8014Superior chinesium made of the finest zinc and magnesium alloys.
With a kid in school and your wife teaching, you could potentially be sick every day for the rest of your life. Thanks again for sharing
Every time our grandchildren ...AKA terrorists ... visit my wife and I catch some kind of viral disease.
Being sick is the worst. I had the flu this winter and was down for 2-3 weeks.
They all spread it around. I feel the pain with a child in school
You are an oddity. A mechanic that has a grasp of English and grammar. Such a joy not to have to cringe every other sentence.
It’s called being an engineer not just a wrench monkey.
You just made a blanket insult for mechanics. You shouldn't throw stones when you live in a glass house. Looking through your past comments reveals more than a few utterly deplorable sentence structure flaws. 😊
@@googleuser3110 if I did, please correct me. I'll take it as constructive criticism and get better. I won't throw it back at you like, well you know. 😁
I watch enough videos and have enough close friends that are mechanics to see a trend.
I dunno. Words are hard.
😁@@WatchWesWork
At 6, watched Captain Kleeman work on trucks, at 7, I watched you rebuild cylinders, yet in my shop is a broken truck, and next to it sits a dozer with two cylinders that need to be rebuilt. Yet here I sit, watching y'all. If you needed proof that it's more entertaining to watch you work than to work, here it is! (Thanks for the video!)
I know that feeling! I also watched Kleeman just before watching Wes. I have a 96 Thunderbird in my shop that needs work, an 07 Acura behind that and another Thunderbird after the Acura. It's wet and rainy out and it's way more fun to sit and watch sometimes rather than go and do!
You started young
Guilty here in key west lol
I find work fascinating. I could watch it all day.
i have a car (FWD) that needs a timing chain, i have another car that needs rust removed and heaps of other small problems, and on to that another car that needs its fueltank replaced with a better one still i sit here watching other people fix their machines/cars... watching is a whole lot easier to do than doing it 😅
I have to say you take a lot of extra time to draw the diagrams to explain things and how they work. I thoroughly enjoy seeing them and understanding how they work. Thanks for taking the time to do that....
While in school in the early 60’s, the pad of green paper with the grid on the back side was called engineering paper. Great paper! I enjoy Wes’s always clear and understandable explanations.
Wes Johnson Services, a great place to take a leak!
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@@WatchWesWork Wes Johnson Services...I miss the CNC circuit board repairs. I've spent quite a few years doing NC and CNC stuff in the 1970's...most of the guys I worked with would never even take a chance on any machinery....bad enough adding a quart of oil to their vehicle!
You hit the nail in the head with that explanation on cylinders, it is indeed for cushion and smoother operation. Remember that these machines were once new and built for loading and unloading valuable goods, not so much towing rusty cars in & out of shop 😁
Wes's machine, not so new, is just multitasking, those "Don't Tow" stickers must be missing. The shop I once worked at had an old surplus ClarkTowTug, used it for plowing.
I like the intelligent approach you take to explaining things. I come for entertainment but also to learn a thing or two. Scrappy is the same way. Feel better Wes.
Wes is the kind of person people who work with their hands should aspire to be. Well rounded, well spoken, well educated, well equipped with a shop full of half finished projects ❤
Ahhhhh, the joy of working on hydraulics. No matter how many rags and buckets you use you will get hydraulic fluid EVERYWHERE!
And when you fix the leak you were after a new one pops up somewhere else because as all hydraulic mechanics know, these systems dont like getting taken down to atmospheric pressure then back to 1000+psi. Tends to piss off the o rings.
Study at school learn form RUclips. 😮 Wow! Thanks for sharing
I love when the pencil and paper come out. I learn something every video. Love the Chevy at the end of the video. My parents had one when I was just a kid.
Wes I was there (subscriber) when this machine was pulled from the sticks! The machine is an important part of your shop.
I remember when this channel was called Wes Johnson Services and our hero was fixing CNC machines and the like. What a trip it's been.
@@zspolson. Ditto. Do you remember his transport IH truck?
@@Military-Museum-LPThat old rollback, right?
@@zspolson. Yes
This forklift is so worth the love, I remember you getting it. As always enjoyed the watch, my husband not so much as he was run over by a forklift 5 months ago and still recovering. Get well soon Wes, look after yourself x
Well wishes to you and yours then.
Ouch! Hope he recovers. I had my foot run over by one as a kid. Luckily it just barely nicked my toe.
Ouch indeed. Two broken arms, broken ribs, broken nose, bleed on spleen and lots of cuts & bruises. Still off work as the wrong side of 60 to be run over. Here to talk about it so very grateful x
For sure.., the videos of its’ repairs were some of the first videos I was made aware of Wes’s channel. Fan ever since.
Speedy recovery for your hubby.
@@SueSmith-ew7ivI doubt there’s any side of 60 that’s right to be run over by a fork lift. Thoughts for a speedy recovery to you both.
I'm a retired maintenance millwright, when foreman put me in the forklift shop, I always felt I was being punished. That was a pretty good video, Wes.
Forklift shop? At least 'they' had one...I've been around these things for 50 years, the most neglected piece/s of equipment I've ever seen...Last place I worked they had a 12,000 pound Clark solid tire 'warehouse' forklift....one of the steering wheels had zero rubber on it...employers didn't see why that could be a problem....
They drove it outside in the rain, and through 7-8" or more of water in puddles...brakes rusted up so bad they barely worked...
Changing hydraulic oil, it doesn't look dirty like engine oil (also never changed) so why change it....and don't bother changing the engine oil, it's a lot of trouble if you can't get the forklift up a foot or so...but you know, if you're thinking...just a few 4X4's and you get it up there...
Wes shares his purgatory, that's why we watch;)
@@dougankrum3328It was a custom wire mill, we made wire for aircraft carrier arrestor cable sort of stuff . It was located just behind the docks so it was a cramped mill, and relied on forklifts to move the rod and wire around. They were kept up and regularly replaced, they were beefed up 10,000 ? Cats.Those steering wheels barely touched a lot of the time. But our two poor little 4,500# maintenance forklifts got no love.
I'm so glad you explained how a displacement cylinder works. My brain was beginning to hurt trying to figure out how a hydraulic cylinder could work without a piston. So it has a piston, just not a "piston" piston. 🤪
It is a piston, kinda.
True displacement cylinders without a piston had a much larger ram - made from tube rather than solid, not much smaller than the cylinder bore. If you think about it then it has to be so otherwise the cylinder bore size is ''wasted.'' The first tractor front end loader lift rams mostly used cylinders like that - power up but no power down.
@@julianstafford7071 The displacement cylinders with a machined bore and the rod matching the ID of the bore are also safer. If the piston seal fails on a traditional cylinder the oil can jump from one side of the piston to the other rapidly and the cylinder slams down. In a displacement cylinder that space is all filled with rod so the cylinder will creep down, not slam down. I believe these are used in anything people hauling for this reason.
@@ryanslaback9418 Piston seal fails?...that's a good reason for the rule....'never stand or walk under a load'..
This explained a lot. 30 years ago, our forklift repair guy came out to replace some leaky hoses and O rings. He told me to take the forklift out into the parking lot and raise the mast all the way up and leave it for a minute or two to drain off any of the fluid that got above the piston. 30 years later I still do it. Thanks for the video and I hope you feel well soon.
I find your theoretical explanations to be one of the best on youtube. If my university taught us this way, I wouldn't struggle so much with it ! it was just equations and very non-straightforward visuals ...
I got covid 18 months or so ago and have only just gotten over a second collapsed lung. It is no joke! If you're sick, go get checked out. It took me 6 or 8 months of a persistent cough before I saw a quack about it, which after a raft of tests showed the first collapse.
The medicine to alleviate the coof was discredited and smeared by the elite with self interests because it was cheap and it works, I took it early on because I have stock of it for my farm and was better in two days, "they" wouldn't have made trillions if we were allowed to use it. Just remember a cured patient is a non returning patient, it's all about money and control!!
Man, that sucks. I finally got it after battling it for years and all i got was... my smell coming back. I had no smell from before the pandemic. Something about my sinuses being messed up made it really difficult to pick up anything but the strongest of odors (like gas leaks, for example) and two days after my fever broke (after 4 days of feeling like death warmed over) ... i got hit with the smell of stale pillow cases (overdue due to the sickness). I freaked out so bad and started sniffing stuff up in the house. It's been two months now and the smell's gone again... CV is some frakked up banjo recital if you ask me.
Vitamin D3 is good for covid and lots more.
whatever you do, don't say yes to intubation. intubation kills more patients than covid
100%. Wes, get checked, please. Working in a freezing shop all winter, not good.
"This puller has had a hard life" immediately puts an impact on it.
I said the same thing when I watched today.😂 I just sat down to watch it today.
You been doing this RUclips thing for so long you knew the first thing viewers... like me... would want to know was where to get the picks... 🤣🤣🤣
Clearly Wes would have been able to make a nice living as an instructor in a college level tech school. He has an ability to teach even RUclips blockheads how complicated systems work.
Why would Wes want to babysit students, his wife has a tough enough job already.
Rewatching the old forklift playlist makes me realize A) how much your camera equipment has improved, and B) how much I miss that old rollback truck you used to drive.
Thanks Wes! I hope you feel better soon 🐾🍺
Can't imagine why anybody would want to leave that hoist outside for how many years. Works like a charm, and breaks down less than anything built in this day and age.
Using a hammer on the wrench reminded me of my dad. He always says "do what I say, not what I do!" =)
Hammer time...in reality, that retainer should never have been that tight. That's why those spanners have such short handles.
Cool video Wes and that is a really neat cylinder arrangement. Thanks for sharing how they work!
Mornin! I worked on Forklifts for about 40 years, I’m glad you figured out how this setup works. Now I know also! ✅
Clark was a renowned leader in material handling. In some countries in Europe they don’t use the word forklift, they call all forklifts Clark. The same for skid loaders. They are called Bobcat even if they are JCB or EuroMach, or what ever.
in Australia skid loaders are all called bobcats! a forklift is a forklift though
You sure seem to get yourself into a lot of hydraulics for a guy who hates hydraulics😁
Tell me about it!
It's definitely pleasure watching Wes pull apart equipment components and explaining what and why he's doing to repair them.
Ain't no doubt he'd be an excellent aircraft mechanic with his attention to detail and competence at pretty much everything he does.
Your drawnigs (in this video and in the past ones) are the best I've ever seen! Thank you for describing the basics so understandable.
And the best is, he can do the drawings without the help of a computer.
Old school, paper, pen and ruler. 👍
I still remember when you dug this forklift out of the weeds all those years ago. All your old revivals showed me that abandoned equipment can still be useful.
Nice teaser with the 76 Malibu SS. Can't remember the last time I saw one of those. I love it when you break out the graph paper. You are a gem sir.
Malibu Classic?
Not sure, thought it had an SS badge on the fender.@@Corey-dy2cq
22 years working on lifts. Ya did great buddy.
Great “green paper” explanation.
I had 12 Clark fork trucks years ago. You can get the radiator out without taking the counter weight off, you just need to take the seat and the plate off, if I remember right? It's been 20 years, good luck Wes.
Wes, you are an excellent teacher! Thank you for this lesson and so many others in past videos! Feel better - spring is just around the corner.
I don't know who is sick more you or Puddin but you both still have those germ breeder's running around. My woes come from Vietnam 57 years ago. Keep up the good work.
Those O rings can be fun . good job ,Wes . got it back togather and no leaks .
Information that I will never use but will never leave my brain.
Thanks Wes 😂
I have the same forklift.
My brakes are shot.
The lift cylinder (multistage) pours oil.
I started to rebuild the cylinder last year and got extremely discouraged.
Years ago my dad's company built his own cylinders for his hydraulic equipment.
You know your stuff!
You are an inspiration for me to finish my own forklift.
Keep it up Wes!
I had a 1973 Clark Fork Truck. The cylinder was leaking, the soft plugs were blowing off, the hydraulic lines were blowing out randomly every few months and I could go on. I use it maybe an hour a day and I am not as motivated or knowledgeable as you. I bought an 8 year old CAT with only 900 hours on it and said goodbye to the Clark after 45 years of service, it owed me nothing but was glad to see it go.
what do you expect from a 45 year old hydraulic lines, that they will hold as new?
They don't last forever.
@@ПавелКузов-ж1в umm, no.......💩
Look at you all fancy with a spanner wrench! I use pipe wrenches, chain wrenches, strap wrenches, etc. I would need a dozen spanners to cover all the different sized cylinders I rebuild.
Good work Wes!
15:31 "You know it's getting serious when the green paper comes out." I laughed out loud - quite loudly!
Wes is the mechanic that has the skills to take on anything that has a engine 😂😅😊
Never change anything more complicated than a light bulb anymore, as long as the light fixture is on the ground, but I love your videos and your process of figuring things out. Hope you never run out of projects and feel better soon.
That's a sweet Chevy at the end
Back in the day when I ran a warehouse at a die cutting plant I used a 1973 Clark like this one except yellow. That thing never broke down but the larger Datsun was always broken.
3:19 “This puller has not lived an easy life,” as impact approaches. 😂
I wondered how the sequence of the cylinders was controlled. Now it makes sense and avoiding having hoses to damage or rot really makes sense.
I've been with you as far back before you restored that crane. It's been a fantastic journey with you partner
Good humor, excellent tutorials, fun repairs to watch - a deadly combination. I am so glad I found your channel. Keep up the excellence!
I thought youd have to make a gland wrench but naturally you have the proper tools.
Clark have certainly their own unique way of doing things. I never worked on the smaller ones, but forklifts.....always fun !
For many years (11 or 12) I lived in the desert and never got sick and forgot what it was like to be sick. I now live in the tropics and getting sick is a normal part of life here.
It was a pleasure watching you work on the forklift again. I believe these were the first of your videos I watched - of you getting that one out of the field. And thanks for the hydraulics lesson also. Education is a wonderful thing, even if you are 79 years old. I hope I never stop listening and learning.
Same here @ 67. lol
Strange how much joy I get from cylinder rebuilds 🤔
I need to do some hydraulic work this summer, and as I have not done any for 50 years, I appreciate the refresher course. I have watched every one of your videos, so I am pleased to see a new one. Thank you much!
Had that been me putting a C clamp on that rod, I promise you it would have scored the rod, and wiped out nearly all the threads on minimum of two sides.
My luck being what it is, would have spun around the whole rod taking out n all of the threads all the way around from one end to the other in the process, as it spun around the end taking them all as it dropped beyond reach into the cylinder.
That's typical how things go for me these days.
PS
That was 17 years it had sat in the woods of y'all's place, I remember that, because you said it numerous times, and as you were power washing all of the moss that had grown it.
That's kinda what that is that you washed off, but it actually goes by another name I can't remember most of the time.
There was several different pieces of equipment that you tried to revive.
Best will it start I think you ever did was the old can't remember if it was drag line or shovel, drag line sticks in my head.
Had a old buddy engine in it I believe, could be mistaken about the engine manufacture, but it sticks in my head it was.
That amfi it was cold and miserable most every time you were there, and it had trees grown through parts of the boom and tight against the body
The phrase "While you're at it" can be financially scary, but it does make for good content. 😊
That same weather happened here in western NY. And today and tomorrow it is to be in the 70's, breaking records both days. (Though breaking the record for high temps is not the rare event it once was.)
We’re supposed to set records here in Elmira/Corning the next three days, including today.
Watching from Grand Island! Working outside today in a T-shirt!
We used every variety of lifts at work and Clark was the best from what I saw in 30+ years. Our forklifts ran 24/7 365 and it was nothing to see 15,000 hours on a lift when rotated out.
Great looking automobile at the end. Real class. Nothing like the cookie cutter automobile’s of today. 👍👍👍🇺🇸✌🏻🙏🏽😎
Thx for taking the time to make the drawings to be able to teach us more easily.
I always love your green paper engineering drawings. Not only are you an excellent artist, the drawings and your explanations really help me understand how things work. I'd watch a RUclips channel of nothing but you explaining mechanical systems with your drawings honestly. It's very educational.
Hey Wes. I’m guessing they did a cost analysis on a check valve vs running another hydraulic hose back to the tank. Check valve would be much cheaper. Maybe?
260K subscribers in 4 years. WOW!! You deserve it, Wes. Fantastic videos.
Between your channel and cutting edge engineering in Australia I have learned so much about hydraulics.
That cutting edge engineering guy is another who is not afraid of taking on big projects.
Nice work.
Reminds me of an old joke about a walrus and a Tupperware party.
No, that's just ice cream🤣
Wes, you are correct in your assertion of the cylinder operation except for one small thing left out, they use a orifice and a check valve to cushion not bottom out the cylinder. The other cylinders that do not use this use a cushioning valve that hits the gland first allowing some oil to escape and stop bottoming out.
Wes I admire your never ending confidence in taking on all projects. Im weak in hydraulic cylinder repairs. I still take them to a specialist.
Wow, I really appreciate reading your comments and it’s always nice to learn something that I didn’t know!
Eastern Iowan here. That weather was absolutely insane. We had a high of 74° and a low of 9°. Glad I'm not the only "old man" that notices how crazy that was. 😅
It's the polar vortex that's very unstable this winter. Saw a video in december which predicted this.
Massive amounts of cold air can suddenly rush southward from the polar region and cause cold spells, then it retreats which draws warm air from the Gulf.
Results in this yo-yo effect.
Can theoretically continue throughout spring.
We had to do the lift and steering cylinders on a Clark at our carpet store. Worked with a mechanic friend who was trained on them. It was a messed two day job. The muffler was cracked and we opted to not remove the counter weight and just deal with the noise.
Favorite line of 2024 "I was looking for another project." The curse of the handy man, the project always finds you.
I kept thinking how much the next guy who brings that lift back to life in 70 years after you and he'll appreciate the cylinders seals. 😂
I admire and always enjoy the hand drawn diagrams 🙂👍 We went from 75 to snow in 8 hours last week! 🤣
You just described every winter in Texas. Snowmageddon yesterday, Speedos and Piña Coladas today.
I love the green paper explanation! Thanks
This made me appreciate how easy rebuilding the cylinders on my Kubota tractor is. No hoist needed.
I have seen a few cylinders built like that. It is to keep them from slamming against the end. That's one thing with hydraulics, they have ten different ways to do the same thing. The evolution of hydraulics is pretty fascinating.
I swear I always learn something about some sort of repair every time I watch your videos Wes
Weather has been weird even down here. Cold then warm then cold. Rinse and repeat. Love the Malibu!
Your rescue of this forklift was your first video that I watched.
Nice teaser with the beautiful Chevelle.
Apart from the fascination of watching someone replace the seals on a fork lift, and it was fascinating, it's also interesting to hear about the weather. In Melbourne, where it is summer, the weather has been equally crazy. One day it was 38 deg C and the next day it maxed out at 18 deg C. It has been variations on this for most of the summer. You end up constantly chasing your tail. This morning I had the heating on and this afternoon I will probably have the cooling on. No wonder I just stay indoors most of the time, it's too confusing. 😄
Saw a video in december which predicted this yo-yo effect. Although it was about the northern polar vortex becoming unstable, apparently the southern polar vortex is doing the same, on occasion pushing massive amounts of cold air out, then retreating just as suddenly, drawing in hot air from around the equator.
It could continue like that for a few months.
@@silvergreylionOh, joy.........😄
I always enjoy your drawings and explanations of how things work.This forklift explanation was VERY educational.
You have put lots of effort in to that forklift and have watch the originals videos when you had 20k subs now you are 10 times that!! You’re doing great!!
I remember you pulling that forklift out and restoring it, been watching you ever since...
Wes, you have one of the best channels on the RUclips! _Keep up the amazing work team Hufflepuff!_
The Clark has paid for itself.
Many times! It's the handiest tool I own.
Sounds like a recipe for some dangerous storms. Makes one curious about weather
modification
worked in a lot of plants with some tired fork trucks. most had so much blowby theyd propane cropdust you snd maybe spray you with an oil mist. that one even leaking is not in bad shape.
That forklift has served you well despite its past. Nice to see you had saved it. Ready to get that radiator next Wes! 👍
Nice a forklift repair video. I’m a retired forklift operator. Excited to watch this.
I would have been tempted to borrow a bigger forklift and put this one in a roll-off. Good on you for fixing it yourself.
Those weather patterns you described are typical of Alabama weather .. enjoy the warm weather while you can 😂
I'm thinking you need a wall of remembrance for all the drawings you make. Those a quality productions in their own right. Thanks for the primer on cylinder rebuilding and plumbing on that fork truck. Good stuff.
Having orange hands is a early sign you are not feeling well. Didn't see Max in this one, say hey to him. Thanks for the video, get to feeling better!
awesome explanation on the hydraulic system. I'll probably never work on something like it, but you do a great job explaining, and making a unique design understandable.