New here. I own an 1845C since it was new. Has 810 hrs. on it and its 12 years old. Always taken good care of it and use it mostly as a fork lift on rough ground. The left side popped and stopped moving. Got it back in the barn by pushing it. Took the covers off and found the sprocket between the wheels and the grease-able shaft are bad. Does anyone know a good place to find parts besides local oem? Thanks in advance.
OEM parts for those things are pretty cheap from my experience. Not going to find them much cheaper anywhere else. Do you not have a dealer near you or just don't want to use them?
Case is your best option, or there are a few skid-loader salvage yards around. the effort to remove and install out weighs saving money on discount parts.
Going to have to ship to me so I might as well get them from the cheapest out there. Thought there would be a parts supplier other than OEM. My experience has been they are always the highest in cost. Thanks
I'd order them from CASE, You're probably talking about less than $200 to fix it and savings would be minimal from an online place and who knows if they'd even be right.
For the rest of us other 1845C owners: What would cuase drive sprokets to go bad on a machine with only 810 hrs? Are there maintenance proceedures that us other Case owners can/should be doing to prevent this sort of issue? Thanks.
We had several 1845 style machines in the company. One of the machines we used prominently for cleanup around the site. On that machine we had the tires filled with a silicone product, that machine was always breaking chains and taking off teeth from the internal case sprockets. I attributed the breakage to the kinetic energy created by the extra weight in the wheel/tire assembly, forward to reverse action. Case dealer did not agree, but offered no other directive. We finally took off the filled tires, put on the non-filled tires, problem went away.
Like broken wire said, the "fluid filled" tires seem to be hard on the drive system in these particular loaders, and heavy digging with steel tracks seems to break chains from what I've seen. 1845's are about bulletproof besides the sprockets and chains.
Hi, did you ever find the cluster sprocket, and cluster pin?