[AT] Case 580D Questions

charlie hill chill8 at cox.net
Thu Sep 1 06:09:49 PDT 2005


Mathew,  once you get the piece off take it to a good machine shop and let 
them fix it for you.  They will figure out the best way.  The other option 
is to replace the parts and that might get expensive.

Keep the rams clean and rubbed down with light oil.  Hytran will be fine.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew" <matthewx at dogod.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:39 AM
Subject: [AT] Case 580D Questions


> Hi Folks,
>
> Last summer I bought a used Case 580D backhoe.  After I changed a couple 
> of
> hoses on it, it served me well all of lasst summer.  No major problems.
> This summer I had a bit of a major problem.  I am surprised that I did not
> hear any of this starting to happen, but the exhaust on the thing is right
> up in front of you... What happened was I was digging a stump out, and I
> lost all hydraulics.  My first thought was I lost enough fluid to make it
> quit.  That was not the case.  On the first examination I found one of the
> problems, the hydraulic pump had fallen off.  The two bolts that hold it
> on had elongated and ripped through the ears on the pump.  I thought I 
> could
> fix that with through bolts, dn you sort of can.  Only the problem is 
> deeper
> then that.  It seems most of the bolts holding the front face on the motor
> had rattled loose and the whole face of the motor is now rotated about 3
> degrees.  This mashed the pump against the frame, and caused the pump to
> fall off.
>
> At this point in time I have one more bolr that is holding the front of 
> the
> motor on that is givign me all kinds of &^&^)$ and one of the bolts that
> holds the female piece the splined on the pump goes into is broken.  It
> looks like this had been worked on before.  So now I need to take the 
> front
> off the motor, take the piece that intefaces to the pump out and see if
> I can get somebody to get the fastener out.  This is going to be a while 
> in
> happening.  I have a bunch of questions..
>
> 1) If I take the pump all the way off, is there a process that can re-fill
> and re-drill and tap the holes in the ears?  That seems to be the prefered
> way to mount it.
>
> 2) All of the cylinders are starting to fall "open" as it failed in use 
> and
> could not be moved at all.  Is there anything I can or shuold rub on the
> exposed parts of the cylenders to keep them from pitting?  I was thinking
> somethign like vasoline perhaps, or even just a good rub down with hytran
> every so oftten.
>
> 3) will this project ever end?  This has to be the most miserable thing I
> have ever had the pleasure to work on.  FOlks who wrench on these for a
> living have my complete respect!
>
> --Matthew
>
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