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Looking good. I keep promising myself a decent petrol jetwas that can be fed from an ibc container and washing everything down between sites. It would make very good first impressions and a good idea from a biosecurity point of view.

 

few shots of the forwarder from last week, made a bit of a mess of one of the rides despite waiting for as long as we could to extract

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As daunting as it seems its not too bad. Ill try and type a quick run through of how I did it. Mine will be done again soon as the shims I had machined dont get clamped tight enough so they will get welded in

Drive over a big ish log so the cab is supported by this. Undo/cut off the bolts that hold the bunk to the frame, lift the bunk off with the crane. Its heavy and just doable. Stow the crane over the front onto the floor

Take off the plate that goes over the rear diff/center pivot- its heavy.

Undo the hydraulic line that goes to the rear diff, and drift round the big locking pin that holds the center joint.

Take the prop off,I cant quite remember how this is done.

Lay a sleeper on the ground/something smooth jack up the rear frame near the center and use a slow winch to pull the rear away from the center pivot.

Take the steering rams out, mine had been welded before and was a nightmare to get apart.

The center pivot then unbolts with 2 clamps on the chassis, 2 big bolts inside the the allen bolts top and bottom. Then you will need to chisel/beat the top/bottom caps off and your done. To aid us in the future we drilled and tapped 4 m10 holes in the edges of the top caps to wind volta in and extract in the future.

After that its new bearings and reassemble.

Hope it covers it, I would say its a 2 day job for 2 people

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Just thinking about it now if it is just the bearings its a simple case of undoing the top bearing carrier, changing the bearings and repeating with the bottom. I would grab the rear bunk with the crane then you can use it to level up the bearing holes

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