need a part for an AD4/AD3
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Topic: need a part for an AD4/AD3
Posted By: ghostriderinthesky
Subject: need a part for an AD4/AD3
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2017 at 12:17pm
| anybody have a steering box out of an AD grader they want to sell? mine has the studs broken off and the holes are all wallowed out. |
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Posted By: ghostriderinthesky
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2017 at 7:47am
well i got it out of the machine yesterday and it wasn't as bad as i thought. one stud was missing and the other was broken off about half way. i was able to get the dutchman out pretty easy because there was about an inch of it sticking out of the box. the other problems were that someone had welded the nut and broken stud to the frame under the steering box and had welded the box to the frame from above with about an inch of weld. the above weld had broken many years ago,but t hat one underneath was a real &%^#! . I don't think the machine shop will be necessary. all i need now is a couple of studs ,nuts,washers and i will back in business |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2017 at 9:41am
| Fantastic. I was all ready to sell you a complete AD3 for a parts machine. Now I got a keep it. Dang! Darrel |
Posted By: ghostriderinthesky
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2017 at 8:03am
| Yup pretty lucky on that one. would you be interested in selling parts off of your AD3 |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2017 at 8:05am
| Well, I really should just part it out, but I can't quite bring myself to do that. It really is way too nice of a machine to knock in the head. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2017 at 8:58am
| how many of them things you gots? |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2017 at 9:06am
| Only two. Darrel |
Posted By: ghostriderinthesky
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2017 at 11:51am
| yea i understand. if you decide to part it out let me know. my AD4 is really in pretty good shape too. it still has the electric brakes and all. i am still entertaining selling it to help finance a hydraulic machine with power steering,but it will have to suffice until i make up my mind. anyway it should be a big improvement getting the steering box bolted down again. i really don't need a good grader just for my own work anyway and i kind of have the hankering for a new dragline . i don't think Allis Chalmers made draglines . did they? |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2017 at 8:26am
| No, I am pretty sure Allis did not make drag lines. Probably one of the few things they didn't make. But they did make some mighty neat mining equipment. Maybe something from that entity would suffice you as a drag line. Might be tough to move around though. Lol. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2017 at 4:42pm
| right now I think Cody is the drag line queen. maybe he knows where to gits you one? |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2017 at 5:55pm
| Glad you said "Drag line queen", and not "drag queen". Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2017 at 12:48am
| bet he is too! lol |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2017 at 12:49am
| I've seen some really nice drag lines on consignment and on line auctions, they usually don't bring much money |
Posted By: ghostriderinthesky
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2017 at 8:58am
| yea! wearing high heels just don't work with those peddles. |
Posted By: ghostriderinthesky
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2017 at 9:00am
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they don't bring much money cause nobody knows how to run them anymore. maybe to many drag queens? instead of "owner operator" |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2017 at 9:21am
| I think that a drag line would be fun to operate. A drag queen, not so much. Lol Darrel |
Posted By: WDman1951
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2017 at 9:24am
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Drag lines are lame you need to gets you a Buycrus Erie track how like me that's where it's at. Drag queen is a befitting term so I'll take that as a compliment lol ------------- 1951 WD 1945 C 1936 WC |
Posted By: ghostriderinthesky
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 6:15pm
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I got the AD4 all put back together. i went ahead and rebuilt the driveshaft from the rear to the front also. now it steers a lot better and there isn't any more wobble in the gear box drive. "Power steering" maybe that will be the next project |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 6:30pm
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I was reminded by your handle, GRITS, of this classic spoof: [TUBE]http://youtu.be/Pkdci55adqk[/TUBE] and, of course, the JC original: [TUBE]http://youtu.be/Mynzbmrtp9I[/TUBE] Now I've lost my train of thought, entirely... [TUBE]http://youtu.be/ZjbjUy4KDYI[/TUBE]
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Posted By: ghostriderinthesky
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 8:15pm
| THANKS!!! now i am going to be hearing that song in my head for days. Ahhh "Hank Snow" Ferlin Husky??? |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2017 at 8:36am
| Good post, Dave. I'd never heard the "Ghost Chickens" song before. I good a good laugh out of that one. Darrel |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2017 at 8:45am
Glad to hear you're up and running with it Ghost. I swear, that one of my two motor graders will be operational by summer's end. Do you have any way of posting a video of your machine in operation..... ? Thanks, Darrel
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ghostriderinthesky wrote:Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2017 at 3:10pm
| Dave thanks for posting the vids you do. I don't know how you keep up, but these especially brought back some old memories. |