I had the exact same hose failure on my 528 with less than 500 hours. This is a defective design/assembly error by Avant. Every single 5 and 6 series Avant will have this hose fail in the exact same spot sooner or later. I heard of one that failed with less than 100 hours on the machine. Avant needs to address this issue. I addressed it by having my new hose covered with a wear sleeve to reduce the rubbing on that one spot. But what really needs to happen is remove all the hoses there and either smooth off or cover the offending sharp edge cutting the hoses.
Some machines this never happens to... This particular one was at 47 hours. That's the thing with equipment. When you use it, there's going to be things that can go wrong. The benefit of working with Nolt's, is that this problem was solved, hoses re-routed to avoid future issues, and the customer was back to work all within a few hours of giving us a call. It's all about the local dealer support! If you don't have it, that's what this channel is for!
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I had the exact same hose failure on my 528 with less than 500 hours. This is a defective design/assembly error by Avant. Every single 5 and 6 series Avant will have this hose fail in the exact same spot sooner or later. I heard of one that failed with less than 100 hours on the machine. Avant needs to address this issue. I addressed it by having my new hose covered with a wear sleeve to reduce the rubbing on that one spot. But what really needs to happen is remove all the hoses there and either smooth off or cover the offending sharp edge cutting the hoses.
Some machines this never happens to... This particular one was at 47 hours. That's the thing with equipment. When you use it, there's going to be things that can go wrong. The benefit of working with Nolt's, is that this problem was solved, hoses re-routed to avoid future issues, and the customer was back to work all within a few hours of giving us a call. It's all about the local dealer support! If you don't have it, that's what this channel is for!