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Bypass Door Safety Sensor and Repair Latch Pin

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Somethings Wrong with the Skid steer

What happens here

The video addresses a common issue with skid steers: the cab door's safety sensor. Many operators remove the door for better visibility and access, but this deactivates the boom arm controls. To bypass this, a custom magnetic jumper is created using parts from an old sensor, which fools the machine into thinking the door is closed. This allows the boom arms to function even when the door is removed. A bolt and washers are then used as an improvised cotter pin to secure the bucket's hydraulic cylinder, replacing a missing or damaged factory pin. This quick fix ensures the bucket's functionality.

Goal: Modify the door safety sensor and repair the bucket latch pin for full machine functionality.

Tools and materials

  • Bolt
  • CAT 259D Skid Steer
  • Old Sensor Parts
  • Washers
  • Wrench

What they say

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and a bucket latch needs to be repaired all right so now we should probably call Kat and find out what we got to do to be able to take that door off and keep the sensor so there is a right way and a wrong way to take your door off and then to save the sensor and we didn't use either of those ways we use our own way yeah you should just be able to know we don't want the door period but with it off the boom arms will go up and down [Music] so the safety switch on the donor requires a magnetic connection to activate the sensor so instead of creating using a jumper wire Frankie made his own what came on the magnet to that well there you go and it works yeah works good nice long as we got a solution right what difference does it make what are we gonna do next on this thing this right here we're missing a cotter pin so this morning I just dumped it in there when I popped it off let's let's do that I don't got any yeah I don't know what kind of I don't know I think can't you just use a bolt that's a bolts here we'll figure something out I was thinking maybe just one washer not so that it's you know super tight but we've used bolts and washers to replace missing pins in the past and it works out just fine as long as the head isn't too fat and you can see we got one right here I don't think we necessarily need that we could probably get fired with the old thinking if we just had a over what do you think you wanted on the inside yeah I want one extra on the inside all right slide that up there we're just gonna get too long because then it'll catch so you got just a little bit of a little bit of play because you need a little bit kind of like this side but it's still fairly tight that's what's happening to Jake but he had both in him I didn't know that the tip of the wrench there was ratcheting and it's ratcheting so if you have it on the wrong way the other side of the bolt just spins yeah shut so that's why that's why he was like it's just sitting there when really it was spinning is that Owen we were working on the lawn mowing equipment yeah that's why I was just sitting out there that's why we weren't getting anywhere that was the problem yeah that's crazy

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