Hey guys, I took the inspection plate off the bottom of my asv and noticed there are a few metal lines that are rotting out. Nothing seeping or leaking but I didn't know what you guys who work on these machines on the reg would recommend to do. Do nothing and replace? Corroseal?
Price out the lines and ask the service MGR what the labor to replace them will cost you , it may be time for you to change to a newer maching. I just did the 6 hard lines going to the track motors on my JCB T-1110 , just parts was over $3900.00 usd plus 8 hours labor to change them. I ended up haveing a local shop fab up stanless steel lines and new rubber lines for $4000 installed , still feel the pain from that F*ing
Yeah I figured it was going to be that case. But would corroseal buy me some time or is it a wasted effort?
it may help if its not scaleing rust . scales will pop off when they get warm and just continue to degrade fast.
Its kinda scaly. The problem is that the previous owner never dropped the inspection plate so muck built up around the tubing and just rotted. Now that I pressure wash it out it's not as bad but I need to address these tubing lines. I priced out the tubing from a website for around $100 a line. Not bad but i don't want to deal with corroded threads.
the cheapest part JCB qoated me was 350 for the cheap small drain back lines and 580 for both drive lines , not one of the lines was more then 5' long!