Did Cat ever dial in the electrically actuated quick couplers on the D series, or did they just abandon it and switch back to Hydraulic? From what I can find, somewhere around 2015 lots of models started showing up with hydraulically actuated couplers. Would anybody have a guide to upgrading to the hydraulic style on a machine that came with the electric one?
Both the electric and hydraulic couplers were, and still are, attachments. In other words optional extras. The standard coupler is still manual. I think what has likely happened is that as a result of the long-term unreliability of the electric coupler more people who want a powered coupler are choosing the hydraulic version. Maybe Cat have dropped the electric offering completely but I don’t know that for sure. I’ll take a look for any instructions regarding replacing an electric coupler with a hydraulic one.
Update. There are a bunch applying to every Series from B models onwards. Are you looking to upgrade electric to hydraulic.? If so need the machine model and Serial Number prefix.
I'm contemplating doing the swap on RCX00435 since it's electric. I have a 246D here with a hydraulic kit on it that's going down the road shortly that I could use to swap over. When looking at SIS I found kit 603-0397 which is to upgrade from manual to hydraulic, M0107667 are the installation instructions for that. It doesn't appear as though there's a kit to go from manual to electrical though.
I think you're right. It doesn't appear as though that option was ever "a thing".
Would you have access to the M0107667 install instructions by chance? I'm curious to see what all is involved the swap.