does any body have any ideas how to make a removable boom stop for a S150 Bobcat and the best place to attach/mount it...............dont want to weld one on if i can avoid it.
The S150 does not have a safety stop on it??? I had to make a shorter temporary one for my Case 1835C, because the ceiling in the shop I was working in was too low to fully raise the boom. I would suggest some .120 or .188" wall rectangular tube, cut lengthwise, then slip it over the ram, and use some pins or bolts to secure it. You can't make it too beefy. Something else you may want to do is block your machine in the rear so it cannot tip backwards.
well yes it does have a stop, but i have been told that if i fit the grouser bar steel tracks that i need to put a boom stop in as the the tracks will sit or touch the boom, thus need a boom stop when i put in the down postion. I guess they might also call it a spacer, but from what i heard around here there calling it a boom stop.................from what i understand it needs to restrict the boom from going down by a inch..............i can see various options, but i dont know what the most correct way of doing it..................from what i understand there is a boom stop part avaliable......have no idea what it looks like, but there none avaliable locally and i dont want to wait 4weeks to have it imported from the USA, because im sure i could fabricate something.
redkat is referring to physical "stops" on the machine chassis -- Deere and NH have, for instance, have theirs located at the front of where the chaincases would be. He's not referring to the lift-arm supports (the red C-channel that sits on the rod to keep the cylinder from retracting).
Why not just drill and tap into the existing stop and add another pad of whatever thickness would be needed to raise the boom? That way it is removable if needed. Paul
I have a 763F and had the same issue when I bought a set of tracks. The boom stop is nothing more than a piece of steel plate about 3" by 5.5" with 2 holes in it. On the 763 which has a single tilt cylinder, this stop is mounted on the center-back of the loader arm cross beam below where the tilt cylinder attaches to the cross beam. Or said another way, sit in the loader and raise the loader arms. Look at the back of the cross beam and you will see a flat area in the center of the beam with 2 holes. This area normally rests against the loader body when the arm is all the way down. I used 4 pieces of 3/8" plate drilled the two holes in each plate and used a couple of bolts to attach the plates to the cross beam. The plates will hit the loader body and hold the lift arm up and away from the tires/tracks. Be aware that you will no longer be able to set your bucket flat against the ground. The heel will be above the grade about 2 inches (with boom slightly raised plus the tracks lifting the loader). If you do a lot of grading you may find your bucket wanting to dive into the grade due to the angle of the bucket. A friend of mine put rubber tracks on his 753 and found it quite difficult to hold grade. He had a custom bucket built with the QuickTach plate mounted 2" higher so the bucket would sit level on grade. I read something in Bobcat's Worksaver Magazine that they make a mounting plate that attaches between you Quicktach and the bucket with this offset built in to get the heel of the bucket down.