Quote Originally Posted by mikea View Post
Spent 15 years in a rock quarry and a few of them as a mechanic. Got fairly familiar with diesel engines. Not bad yo work on just bigger. Rule of thumb was for a previously running machine 2 things would keep it from running. 1 is air and other is fuel. Kinds liked tearing one down and rebuilding it. Don't know if i could do that now. It's been 20+ years since i did that kind of work.
I hear you. This is kind of a baby machine for me as well. years ago I would be happy as a fat hog at a full slop trough just sitting with 5 other guys hard face welding for months on end on the same bucket or crawling down the bore of a giant hydraulic cylinder to build up and polish out gouges that had been left there when the piston came in contact due to bad seals.