Hello? Welcome to a new episode of ConEquip 101. I'm Ben and today we're gonna be talking
about bushings (BOOM!) and also about pins (BOOM!) So pins and bushings. Every machine
has them. Excavators, skid steers, bulldozers, wheel loaders, crawler dozers, whatever, every
machine has pins and bushings. Connect the loader frame to the machine, to the
buckets, connecting the hydraulic cylinders to different portions on the
machine. They're all over the place and you know what, when you get some sloppy
play (CLANKING) it is time to do some replacing of some bushings and pins. There's really no
point in doing one without the other. Buy bushings by new pins because obviously
what happened is the bushing is designed to kind of wear out so it doesn't ruin
the actual hydraulic cylinder or the frame of the machine so they put
bushings in to take up that play. But also, the actual steel on the big pin
gets wore out too. So, you want tightness.
Nothing compared to the before. Dude, that ain't good, okay? If you notice on the
inside of the bushings, and it changes from manufacturer to manufacturer, to
different machine so forth but as a generic look you can see inside there
maybe there's a bunch of grooves inside and it's not because ConEquip
sells groovy parts, which we do, but it's an actual design where the grease goes
in so that when the bushing has to go up and down it's a little lubricated, eh?
So pretty much every every bushing has it for instance and the smaller one got
the same scenario on the inside there. So wherever the grease point is again
different manufacturer by machine model and everything else the pin will end up
getting lubed by greasing it which the bushing again has grease that kind of
stores inside. Because there's grease that gets stored inside people sometimes
don't grease them which will really wear the pin down where the bushing out and
you'll just have to replace it. So grease all the stuff on the machine that needs
to be greased, okay? The other thing is that some of the pins and bushings have
a dust seal. Because what's holding the grease on the inside? Let's seal it up!
Dust seal. Bink! So then the grease can't come out and dust can't go in which obviously
would contaminate the grease. So up at the top of the pin obviously is where
the retainer will go. Some guys just put a bolt in here but there is actual
correct hardware that's supposed to go in. Sometimes they just have two
different holes depending on the type of machine you got. So typically, also when
one pin goes it's probably time to pretty much change the rest of them so
bear that in mind. You can have one end of the machine
that's tight the other side loose, it might be just time to bite the bullet and
get them all replaced. The machine will be nice and tight. You'll be a lot more accurate
when you're trying to dig on that excavator instead of having play in your
bucket and so forth, like that. When you're dozing you're trying to go in
straight lines and everything like that, instead of having play on there you can
be solid making some good precise ground engaging and ground eliminating
depending on what type of machine you got. We've got kits on some machines to
replace all of them and call us up, we'd be more than happy to
help you out and get you some new pins and bushings. We have aftermarket ones
available. They, some come from China, some come from Italy, some come from Korea,
Japan and face it, they're made everywhere.
Typically, honestly the quality is pretty darn good regardless of what aftermarket
company you go with but we have some very reputable people that we do business
with so I got to be honest, I don't think we've ever, I don't think we've ever had
a return for a broken aftermarket pin or a worn-out bushing or something like
that, ever in the history of ConEquip. So until next time my name is Ben from
ConEquip 101.