Posted by NCWayne on October 24, 2009 at 22:54:37 from (173.188.168.35):
In Reply to: old crane guy posted by Dan-IA on October 24, 2009 at 16:34:03:
If you"ve already got the specs you pretty much know what you need to know about it in that respect. I just looked at a LS54 the other day and it had a 4-71 Detroit. The Detroit was a common power plant for the Linkbelts so something along the lines of either a 3-71 or 4-71 would be right for that size machine. The older Linkbelts like that are pretty much all alike in the way they operate, just scaled up or down in size as appropriate. Saying it"s a hydraulic machine simply means that it has a small hydraulic pump driven off of the engine that is used to actuate the clutches and brakes where most machines back then were actuated using air pressure. All in all the older Linkbelts are very reliable machines and there are still alot of them out there nowdays in every day use. So far as the "tansmission" the Linkbelts walked pretty much like all other cranes of that era with shafts and gearing transferring power from the upper works to the lower works and on to the drive sprockets with a large machine chain. There were what they called "Pipeliner" models that had Caterpillar type tracks -vs- the standard flat crane tracks but the basic drive mechanism is the same. The Pipeliner machines were well liked if the machine had to do alot of traveling and are typically worth more to someone that needs that capabibility.
It would be a nice little machine to have if you can get it.
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