Posted by bison on December 30, 2013 at 09:37:47 from (69.168.144.137):
In Reply to: Mechanically Sound posted by rrlund on December 29, 2013 at 13:49:16:
One get still get stung even when he did all the right things like going to to look 3 times and inspecting and test drive.
I was a couple years looking to buy a CTL, went to a dealer, dealer had none but knew one (with said dealer installed brand new engine 600 hrs ago) for sale by a guy that the dealer said was maintaining his equipment religiously and they said you can't go wrong buying a used machine from him.
I looked this thing over on 3 diff occasions and talked to his mechanic as well before purchasing it.
Wel, after less than 50 hrs of use it threw a track cause of a bearing gone in the normally oil filled front idler which was dry as bone.
upon inspecting the entire undercarriage i found out of the 18 boogie axles there was only one that held oil , all the rest were wore till the hilt and dry as bone.( something one can only find out by taking the tracks off)( manual says check oil level off the boogies every 500 hrs)
When i contacted both seller and dealer about this none took responsebillity. Dealer said sorry, seller did not want to take the machine back either but offered an incomplete parts machine as compensation after i threatened to take him to court.
I was able between the 2 machines and some new bearings to get the undercarriage back together.
After going trough the entire machine i found out among other things that the hydraulic and engine oil and filters never had been changed since new(2200 hr on machine) and there was a open hole in the intake post filter were the dealer had forgotten to install a dirty air filter indicator. And this machine was used running a mulcher head!
PO maintenance schedule,...Fix only what breaks when it breaks.:roll:
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