Hi mate. It’s what I do for a job too mate, I just never spent any time on it. Marty T has a great channel. He’s really big now. I doubt he would want to hang around a small channel like mine😅
I like the sound of the straight pipe! Yeah, the weather just destroys mechanical parts and hoses! Also the track chains will freeze up with rust and that could add to the drive motor pulling it! Like you said it could be a number of things fighting against each other! Probably needs a complete under carriage but that’s a lot of expense and I don’t know if the ole girl is worth it! I enjoy your will it start videos Steve! I’d love to visit Australia some day but at 64 years old and retired now! Medical issues always arise! Too many years of hard working as a certified Welder, climbing, crawling and carrying heavy stuff! Over 37 years on the job, takes its toll on a man’s body! Now I watch you guys do these videos and I still learn new things from yall, Steve! Kirk from Louisiana, USA 🇺🇸 sending prayers and positive vibes to you and your family in Australia! I love the sounds of all the birds and wildlife down there! So enjoyable and peaceful! A paradise down under! Take care my friend! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🙋🏼✌🏻✌🏻💯💯💯
Thank you for this comment Kirk. It’s a final drive collapsed on it mate but haven’t finished that video yet. It’s a good place to visit here yes. I’d also like to visit over there but so many bills and young kids makes it all hard mate. Hi from Sydney and plenty more to come. Sorry for the late reply too
Ole girl just needs some TLC, your children are like we used to be when we were kids ! Love the big equipment! Thanks again for sharing your life experiences in Australia my friend!
She does have a sweet note, and the turbo spooling up brings back memories. I started in the forestry on a dash 5, great machines. I used to operate a cat with similar issues to that, everything worked well but she just wouldn’t walk. It ended up being a combination of pump pressure and gummed valves in the valve bank. Hopefully you work it out sometimes you get gremlins with these things and you never work out what’s wrong.
Hi Brad yes it does. They are good old machines yes. Dash 5 were similar. I’m leaning more towards a final drive now that I looked a little bit more into it mate
I worked for a plant hire company here in north west England for many years with a large fleet of dash 3 Komatsu s like this of yours. They were a good machine but very weak on their final drive units. We replaced no end of them usually collapsed and mashing the gears up. And it was through no fault of lack of lubricants or maintenance. They were just weak and spoilt an otherwise good product. PC 200 220 and 400 were all the same. Surprisingly the 300s were much better in this matter
Hi mate thanks for watching. It’s good that you say this because I have since pulled one motor off and put my hand in there to feel the final drive gears and it feels that they are floating around rather loosely i thought, even though I said they were okay. I will pop the outer cover off and have a better look
@@stevesplacedownunder The main hub bearings seemed to give up then this led to crunching up the gears in there. The oil tended to get full of metal looking much like a metallic paint If you go in there the centre drive pinion had numbers on and would only go back in its allocated position. Sort of like timing marks. Other than collapsing final drives and the rotary coupling seals wearing out that’s as much I could say on the matter
@@stevesplacedownunder Also Komatsu always specified sae 30s oil. It always seemed to thin to me Any other machines i came across would always have 90s gear oil in there and were never any bother that included Hitachi JCB/Sumitomo Kobelco Samsung
Thanks Steve for doing this. Im absolutely addicted to everything from Japan. Youre my 🔧hero Greetings from a new subscriber,from Holland Keep em commin Steve. 🔧💪🏻🧙♂️🇦🇺❤️
If you take the planetaries out you can move machine using boom and dipper . The spring applied brake discs can stick or not be released by drive pressure to brake port. Nice videos thank you 👍
Hi mate yes it may eventually come to that. I’m going to be looking further into it. Since found by looking a bit more that it may be the final drives. Thanks for watching
That's a nice sounding engine in the Komatsu digger Steve. Going well. Liked the "Timmins Tune Up" at 20:59 for the track and track motor! Any thought of buying your own hose cut and crimp equipment, and a stock of new hose? or is there too many types you'd need? Just a thought, to save a bit of brass maybe. Your local hose guy doesn't play poker, does he? 8^) Cheers!
Hi Jeff. A hose crimping machine and stock is big, big bucks here mate. Just the crimping machine is over $20k. We don’t even have one where I work and we have over 100 machines. I get around it mate. I don’t go through anymore than what you see on here. I still haven’t fixed the crane either
@@stevesplacedownunder Wow that's costly for the hose equipment. I imagine it is costly here too, I just didn't think it would be that much. I guess you just need to keep going with your channels and get to 18 million subs - YT income would buy the machine at that point - then you could become the hose supplier to your work. 8^)
@jeffdayman8183 yes mate. It’s very expensive. The rate the channel is growing Jeff I highly doubt I will ever see those numbers mate. It seems to have stopped growing
Thanks Matty. I’m suspecting final drive now, even though I said they were okay, I’ve since looked a bit further into it. Will keep you all informed mate
Hi i just found ur channel and i just wanted to say I love your channel and also I love old and new heavy equipment. But can you do one thing for me PLEASE give the old girl a water blast/power wash what you call it It would make it look soooo good.Cheers from new Zealand!!
Hi Daryl thank you mate. I never really bothered to look to hard into it because it gets the job done then gets parked. I really need to put time aside for it.
Hi Steve, great video mate! I have a couple of ideas about the track motors (if you haven't been through it already), I'll give my thoughts over the weekend. And I wholeheartedly agree about the throaty exhaust sound!! That coupled with the turbo can give a bloke an eargasm!! Ha ha!!
It sounds beautiful when you’re actually with it. Camera doesn’t help it too much. I will eventually sort it out. I couldn’t move the levers with my feet, they are all seized and to hard to push 😅
Hi Matt. Yes mate the old ones did, they used Cummins also like the other bloke said, in dozers also. Even small cat equipment now is Mitsubishi with a cat sticker on the rocker cover. Skid steers and small excavators
@@stevesplacedownunder I have Japanese Kubota engines in my 2015 CAT 308 and 289 . CAT has china parts now. I like Japanese machine better. Komatsu,Hitachi , Yanmar IHI etc
Hi Steve how are you the shout out to hear from Ken in Massachusetts in the USA love these videos that you post love seeing all this old equipment that you work with seeing it still being used and being taken care of whether it's startups or being used for whatever projects but it's good to see the videos that you put out because the topics and what you do is is very interesting and very good thank you keep up the good work love seeing these and enjoy watching these
Thank you Steve look forward to your next blog I know it's going to be good because they always are and I totally appreciate them and can't wait for them
An old mate has a similar sized machine here in Wales.... it's home is in his quarry and it only gets moved when it's out reached the material! Happy to dig and load all day but it doesn't like to move any distance!
AWW YEAHHH ... SOUNDS SWEET MATE !!! REALLY LIKE WATCHING YOUR STUFF 👍 BEST TIME OF ME LIFE OUT IN OZ !! KEEP DOING IT . WE'RE HAPPY THAT YOU SHARE YOUR STUFF WITH US 🫡 BIG " GOOD ON YA " FROM POME LAND 👌👍👍👍👍👍
I’m pretty sure you know another Utuber named MartyT , I believe he’s in Wales! Not sure where that is compared to your location Steve but he’s a great mechanic on just about everything! He might have some ideas to share with you if you get in touch with him! Thank Steve!🙋🏼
hey mate so Sorry for the late reply, email address is stevesplacedownunder@gmail.com postal address is Po Box 22 Warragamba nsw 2752 let us know what you want for it also.
Hi Chris. I did mention in here that I replaced it. I done it first because it’s a cheap and easy fix and now it’s eliminated. Looking like the final drive may have a problem. All the best mate
Hi mate. In saying that the final drives were okay, I’ve recently pulled the motor out of one side and found the gears to be floating around to what I think is too loose. I may be binding up under load. I will pull the outer cover off to look better at it. I will video it when I get time
The old Mitsu sounds healthy enough, I'm wondering the same thing about low pump pressure (maybe a drop in pressure somewhere after the pump?). BTW I think the Mitsu trucks those engines were in were the FT and FV series, NSW railway had heaps of them back in the early 90's, mostly tandem drive or single drive plus tag rigid trucks used for moving heavy/bulky stuff like traction motors and wheel sets between sites (used to see them most days at Elcar Chullora back before privatisation).
Hi Robert. The pump measure close to spec when I had gauges on it years ago. Something may have changed though. I will sort it out. They are a great old engine. I remember those model of trucks you’re talking about. I never had anything to do with one though
Hi Russell. Yes mate they do. I’ve been over there on them before, not the barges but passenger boats and they do also, along with most Japanese makes. Very big in Thailand also.
Get the bucket down to take the weight off the machine and slew the machine at the same time as running the track to turn much easier on the machine and track motors
Invite me to come along, make a movement and a stay possible and me at least to an exavator driver (female). Kind regards, Vivian Hyde 😊 (I'm from Germany).
You neèd to invite Marty T from NZ over he deals with that sort of stuff all the time would be a great collaboration
Hi mate. It’s what I do for a job too mate, I just never spent any time on it. Marty T has a great channel. He’s really big now. I doubt he would want to hang around a small channel like mine😅
I like the sound of the straight pipe! Yeah, the weather just destroys mechanical parts and hoses! Also the track chains will freeze up with rust and that could add to the drive motor pulling it! Like you said it could be a number of things fighting against each other! Probably needs a complete under carriage but that’s a lot of expense and I don’t know if the ole girl is worth it! I enjoy your will it start videos Steve! I’d love to visit Australia some day but at 64 years old and retired now! Medical issues always arise! Too many years of hard working as a certified Welder, climbing, crawling and carrying heavy stuff! Over 37 years on the job, takes its toll on a man’s body! Now I watch you guys do these videos and I still learn new things from yall, Steve! Kirk from Louisiana, USA 🇺🇸 sending prayers and positive vibes to you and your family in Australia! I love the sounds of all the birds and wildlife down there! So enjoyable and peaceful! A paradise down under! Take care my friend! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🙋🏼✌🏻✌🏻💯💯💯
Thank you for this comment Kirk. It’s a final drive collapsed on it mate but haven’t finished that video yet. It’s a good place to visit here yes. I’d also like to visit over there but so many bills and young kids makes it all hard mate. Hi from Sydney and plenty more to come. Sorry for the late reply too
Ole girl just needs some TLC, your children are like we used to be when we were kids ! Love the big equipment! Thanks again for sharing your life experiences in Australia my friend!
She does have a sweet note, and the turbo spooling up brings back memories. I started in the forestry on a dash 5, great machines. I used to operate a cat with similar issues to that, everything worked well but she just wouldn’t walk. It ended up being a combination of pump pressure and gummed valves in the valve bank. Hopefully you work it out sometimes you get gremlins with these things and you never work out what’s wrong.
Hi Brad yes it does. They are good old machines yes. Dash 5 were similar. I’m leaning more towards a final drive now that I looked a little bit more into it mate
Gday Steve,
Keep em comming cobber.
Cool vid.
Respect....!
Cool sounding machine. Hopefully you can sort the problem out. Have a good week. Marc
Hi Marc. I eventually will mate. Not a priority right now though. All the best mate
I worked for a plant hire company here in north west England for many years with a large fleet of dash 3 Komatsu s like this of yours. They were a good machine but very weak on their final drive units. We replaced no end of them usually collapsed and mashing the gears up. And it was through no fault of lack of lubricants or maintenance. They were just weak and spoilt an otherwise good product. PC 200 220 and 400 were all the same. Surprisingly the 300s were much better in this matter
Hi mate thanks for watching. It’s good that you say this because I have since pulled one motor off and put my hand in there to feel the final drive gears and it feels that they are floating around rather loosely i thought, even though I said they were okay. I will pop the outer cover off and have a better look
@@stevesplacedownunder The main hub bearings seemed to give up then this led to crunching up the gears in there. The oil tended to get full of metal looking much like a metallic paint If you go in there the centre drive pinion had numbers on and would only go back in its allocated position. Sort of like timing marks. Other than collapsing final drives and the rotary coupling seals wearing out that’s as much I could say on the matter
@@stevesplacedownunder Also Komatsu always specified sae 30s oil. It always seemed to thin to me Any other machines i came across would always have 90s gear oil in there and were never any bother that included Hitachi JCB/Sumitomo Kobelco Samsung
Another interesting old girl mate, that engine sounds really sweet. Thanks Steve.
Thanks John yes mate she sure does
Pressure compensation valves/sealings?
CHAMPION WORK STEVE!!💥💪👊🤍💙❤️💥
Thank you Glen
Looking forward to seeing you do the track motors
It’s coming mate. Probably a while off yet though. I have a plan when to do it
The tree grown up between the treads is priceless, how it just keeps hanging on and going round and round and round....
It eventually fell out😂😂
Clean those tracks man
Looks like those bucket pins are pretty clapped out.
Thanks Steve for doing this.
Im absolutely addicted to everything from Japan.
Youre my 🔧hero
Greetings from a new subscriber,from Holland
Keep em commin Steve.
🔧💪🏻🧙♂️🇦🇺❤️
Hi mate it’s my pleasure and thanks for subscribing. I’m a fan of Japanese stuff to mate. Quality and reliability. All the best mate and thanks again
God it sounds good 👌😎
Yes mate it sure does
One of the old hoses might be constricted and not allowing fluid to flow at high volume. Disconnect some of them and look inside the end of the hoses.
Thank you Don it could well be yes
Hoses ! What a pain ! That Mitsie does sound good though . Makes a fella wonder where the problem in the drive is 🤔 🌵
It’s a terrible pain Scott. It makes them piles of scrap metal really because hoses so expensive
If you take the planetaries out you can move machine using boom and dipper .
The spring applied brake discs can stick or not be released by drive pressure to brake port.
Nice videos thank you 👍
Hi mate yes it may eventually come to that. I’m going to be looking further into it. Since found by looking a bit more that it may be the final drives. Thanks for watching
That's a nice sounding engine in the Komatsu digger Steve. Going well. Liked the "Timmins Tune Up" at 20:59 for the track and track motor! Any thought of buying your own hose cut and crimp equipment, and a stock of new hose? or is there too many types you'd need? Just a thought, to save a bit of brass maybe. Your local hose guy doesn't play poker, does he? 8^) Cheers!
Hi Jeff. A hose crimping machine and stock is big, big bucks here mate. Just the crimping machine is over $20k. We don’t even have one where I work and we have over 100 machines. I get around it mate. I don’t go through anymore than what you see on here. I still haven’t fixed the crane either
@@stevesplacedownunder Wow that's costly for the hose equipment. I imagine it is costly here too, I just didn't think it would be that much. I guess you just need to keep going with your channels and get to 18 million subs - YT income would buy the machine at that point - then you could become the hose supplier to your work. 8^)
@jeffdayman8183 yes mate. It’s very expensive. The rate the channel is growing Jeff I highly doubt I will ever see those numbers mate. It seems to have stopped growing
@@stevesplacedownunder best wishes on it anyway Steve! Cheers.
Wonderful sound to that wounded dinosaur.
The camera doesn’t do it any favours either. It sounds so clean and beautiful when with it
Gday Steve, certainly got a nice note to that mate, interesting to find out what the issue is with the drive, cheers
Thanks Matty. I’m suspecting final drive now, even though I said they were okay, I’ve since looked a bit further into it. Will keep you all informed mate
Hi i just found ur channel and i just wanted to say I love your channel and also I love old and new heavy equipment.
But can you do one thing for me PLEASE give the old girl a water blast/power wash what you call it It would make it look soooo good.Cheers from new Zealand!!
Hi mate thanks for watching. I may wash it one day but not before I sort out the walking problem with it. Thanks for coming over and having a look
Thanks Steve. Knowing how you work you will beat it before it's beats you cobber. Looking forward to the next one mate.🤠
Hi Daryl thank you mate. I never really bothered to look to hard into it because it gets the job done then gets parked. I really need to put time aside for it.
Hi Steve, great video mate! I have a couple of ideas about the track motors (if you haven't been through it already), I'll give my thoughts over the weekend. And I wholeheartedly agree about the throaty exhaust sound!! That coupled with the turbo can give a bloke an eargasm!! Ha ha!!
Look forward to the chat mate thanks
She sounds minty mate. Get the drives sorted shes good for another 10 years of odd jobs. Err umm yeh drive with ya feet mate cmon 😂👍
It sounds beautiful when you’re actually with it. Camera doesn’t help it too much. I will eventually sort it out. I couldn’t move the levers with my feet, they are all seized and to hard to push 😅
Interesting it’s got a Mitsubishi in it. Thought Komatsu built their own engines. Repowered at some stage?
We had PC 300 had 855 Cummins.
Some use Komatsu motors which are excellent 👍
Hi Matt. Yes mate the old ones did, they used Cummins also like the other bloke said, in dozers also. Even small cat equipment now is Mitsubishi with a cat sticker on the rocker cover. Skid steers and small excavators
@@stevesplacedownunder I have Japanese Kubota engines in my 2015 CAT 308 and 289 .
CAT has china parts now.
I like Japanese machine better.
Komatsu,Hitachi , Yanmar IHI etc
@SJW4all yes they use those also mate indeed.
Hi Steve how are you the shout out to hear from Ken in Massachusetts in the USA love these videos that you post love seeing all this old equipment that you work with seeing it still being used and being taken care of whether it's startups or being used for whatever projects but it's good to see the videos that you put out because the topics and what you do is is very interesting and very good thank you keep up the good work love seeing these and enjoy watching these
Hi Kenneth im going okay mate. I’m glad your enjoying it mate and thanks for enjoying and watching
Thank you Steve look forward to your next blog I know it's going to be good because they always are and I totally appreciate them and can't wait for them
Matty sent me. Broken freps my guess. You got some cool toys great job
Hi mate thanks for coming and having a look. Much appreciated
An old mate has a similar sized machine here in Wales.... it's home is in his quarry and it only gets moved when it's out reached the material! Happy to dig and load all day but it doesn't like to move any distance!
Hi mate. It might be a common problem with them. I will eventually get it sorted out
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AWW YEAHHH ... SOUNDS SWEET MATE !!! REALLY LIKE WATCHING YOUR STUFF 👍 BEST TIME OF ME LIFE OUT IN OZ !! KEEP DOING IT . WE'RE HAPPY THAT YOU SHARE YOUR STUFF WITH US 🫡 BIG " GOOD ON YA " FROM POME LAND 👌👍👍👍👍👍
Hi mate fantastic thank you. It’s a great place yes. I’m yet to get over there and have a look around. Thanks for watching
Mate i do like your clips I’m learning , I have just bought a c1800 , love it 1970 model 1970 model
Hi mate thank you. C1800 are good. Is it an ACCO or a CLine?
@@stevesplacedownunder c line inter Australia made 1970 6 cylinder split 5
I don’t know how to send you a picture of it , then you would know a bit more no worries keep up the great work
@@martymcgauley9652 I have instagram, facebook, both under the same name and the email is in the channel description
@martymcgauley9652 will be a great project for you mate
I’m pretty sure you know another Utuber named MartyT , I believe he’s in Wales! Not sure where that is compared to your location Steve but he’s a great mechanic on just about everything! He might have some ideas to share with you if you get in touch with him! Thank Steve!🙋🏼
He’s in New Zealand mate. Not a long flight from here at all
G’day Steve I have the service manuals for PC220-3 can arrange to get it across to you.
Hi mate that would be absolutely amazing. Very much appreciated. My email is in the channel description
@@stevesplacedownunder forgive me mate but I can’t find the email address
@chenderson4969 it’s no problem mate I don’t know it either. I will send it through
@@stevesplacedownunder Righto mate she’s ready to go when you get that address thru to me. Any dramas with the doc it give me a shout.
hey mate so
Sorry for the late reply,
email address is stevesplacedownunder@gmail.com
postal address is Po Box 22 Warragamba nsw 2752
let us know what you want for it also.
Stroking the pump 😂
That’s what it means
Pick up filter?
It possibly could be but the other functions are great and use the same pickup
If it doesn't use oil then what dose it use?
Rotary coupling seals possibly. I cut my teeth on a pc200-3 great machine.
Hi Chris. I did mention in here that I replaced it. I done it first because it’s a cheap and easy fix and now it’s eliminated. Looking like the final drive may have a problem. All the best mate
Sound
Sorry mate was sposed to say sounds great and machine excellent purchase
Nice exucater bud hope get her sorted know parts not cheap now find that stuff RC car s
Thank you Alex. I will get it sorted
iv got a pc200 same age, and it tracks like shit as well, id love for you to find the problem, so i can fix mine
Hi mate. In saying that the final drives were okay, I’ve recently pulled the motor out of one side and found the gears to be floating around to what I think is too loose. I may be binding up under load. I will pull the outer cover off to look better at it. I will video it when I get time
The old Mitsu sounds healthy enough, I'm wondering the same thing about low pump pressure (maybe a drop in pressure somewhere after the pump?).
BTW I think the Mitsu trucks those engines were in were the FT and FV series, NSW railway had heaps of them back in the early 90's, mostly tandem drive or single drive plus tag rigid trucks used for moving heavy/bulky stuff like traction motors and wheel sets between sites (used to see them most days at Elcar Chullora back before privatisation).
Hi Robert. The pump measure close to spec when I had gauges on it years ago. Something may have changed though. I will sort it out.
They are a great old engine. I remember those model of trucks you’re talking about. I never had anything to do with one though
hi steve first time watcher i think
Hi mate thanks for watching. There’s plenty of episodes before this to watch also. Hopefully you enjoy
Passion fingers
Love you too😅
Hi Steve and Dad,, Awhile ago I watched a few vids of the barges in Vietnam ,, most of them had Mitsubishi truck engines in them..
Hi Russell. Yes mate they do. I’ve been over there on them before, not the barges but passenger boats and they do also, along with most Japanese makes. Very big in Thailand also.
Do you guys have to worry about freezing? In Pa right now it’s 19* F at night. Will crack a block in short order.
Hi mate no it doesn’t happen here. It has before frozen the garden taps and stuff around the hose but never enough to hurt any equipment
The Mitsubishi sounds quite a lot like a 6bt Cummins.
Engine komatsu S6D105
Komatsu P220-3 (1986-1993)
Komatsu PC220-3 (1986-1993)
Yeah it does straight off the turbo
G'day Steve. Mate, is there a bobbin inside the valve body for the walking levers? Never heard a Mississippi start like that before.
Hi mate. I don’t exactly know. I’m leaning more towards a final drive problem now. Even though I said they were good, I’ve since seen otherwise
🙂
Komatsu PC220-3 model 1986-1993
Hi mate that’s right. Good old machine. I just need to sort the problem
Are you near Bruce (in Australia) ?
Hi mate no he is about 10 hours North of me in the car. We speak on the phone though. Good bloke
Might be the sloppiest bucket I’ve ever seen!😂
Get the bucket down to take the weight off the machine and slew the machine at the same time as running the track to turn much easier on the machine and track motors
If it was as easy as doing that with a machine where everything is free and working that’s what I would of done
Diesel Creek Down Under
Its only a distant dream at this stage to get as big as him mate.
Invite me to come along, make a movement and a stay possible and me at least to an exavator driver (female). Kind regards, Vivian Hyde 😊 (I'm from Germany).
Clean around your track peddles
Been done plenty of times. Even lubed pivots. Cables are tight
Nuda good one Steve CHEERS
Thanks as always Ron