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Skid Loader Pin Maintenance

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Wrapping up a VERY BIG Retaining wall.

What happens here

A worker is shown diagnosing a problem with a pin on the skid steer loader that is not accepting grease. To address this, they first use a hammer and a pry bar to forcibly remove the stubborn pin from its housing. Once removed, the pin is inspected, revealing that its grease channel is clogged with dried, solidified grease and debris. A thin wire is then inserted into the grease channel to thoroughly clear out the obstruction, ensuring that fresh grease can flow freely. Finally, a powered grease gun is used to pump new grease into the pin's channel until it visibly emerges, indicating the channel is clear and lubricated. The pin is then reinstalled, and greased again to ensure proper operation.

Tools and materials

  • Hammer
  • Powered Grease Gun
  • Pry Bar
  • Wire
  • Grease

What they say

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are the different track systems and some of the things i've learned about tracks through the years of working with different companies [Music] better this isn't what you thought you were going to be doing with your morning huh i was coming out of there so hopefully uh where's the where's the gun all right so yeah that sucker's gunked up on the inside there so i'll take the bucket off pull that pin out and yeah so i guess i'll show you guys how to do that in case y'all run into the same problem all right i'll show you how to do this so the problem that sam is having is one of the pins won't take grease and we've got an ejector kit that we got from mcfarland but whatever is going on inside of that pin is beyond the ejector kit so he's got to disassemble the whole thing all right now we got to pound the pin out what's going to happen is when we get that out it's going to drop a little bit so we'll have to get a bar under there and kind of lift it up it's just see it's just metal on metal so like i was telling these guys like the this these are the important ones to grease on this machine so what will happen is if those pins don't get greased the machine will start squeaking and lock up but you can also wear through the bushings on there and then you'll have to re-board the machine and you can only re-bore it so many times just about yeah you see how freaking dry that thing is there we go all right look at this you guys yeah you can't even see it there's gonna be a little hole in there that the grease comes out that we gotta find and get cleaned out there's just nothing there's no lubrication on that thing whatsoever wow that is freaking solid oh man [Music] there we go look at that oh you can see the rest of the chunk of dirt it shot that shot out of there that's better than popping a zit oh that's so cool that's a pretty good sized chunk all right so we'll get the rest of that cleaned off get her in there grease it up call it good okay so it gets a little bit of grease on this bad boy [Music] all right we're good we're good yep okay so get the negotiator back on it okay good to go and now we gotta get this bolt line back up that had the nut on the inside [Music] normally i'd put a little bit of the thread lock back on there but i'm uh i don't have i ran out of the tube i had so

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