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Great if you have lots of belly pans to do. Imagine it costs $3000K plus. However could make a manual version of it fairly easily. Could modify a jack for quads.
As much of a pain it is to keep around, I find a narrow pallet jack and cribbing helps with anything I need to lift, cars, trucks, tranny’s, bikes, garden tractors, zero turns. After having one for a few years, never be without one again.
Just how do you drive it, and see the holes are lined up without running over yourself or someone else ? I see an accident waiting to happen
Thats probably why their doing a lot of testing .
Testing is gonna prove what ?
How many times it runs over some one.
It's remote control and the operator can see where he's driving it and if anything is in the way. It doesn't just randomly drive anywhere without any input.
J.J. Scheckel, the company developing their version of the belly pan lift, rebuilds a lot of D10/D11s in a similar manner to Cat’s certified rebuilds. The belly pans are very large, awkward, and heavy. Trying to do them with makeshift stuff like a floor jack is a dangerous combination. I know because that’s all I ever had in my career and I’ve had a few belly pans go tumbling off the jack while trying to get them up into position. I always hated them for that reason. I know this forum is famous for its old curmudgeons but there is a point where doing things “the old way, like we’ve always done it” is not a safe prospect.
cat actually has a belly pan jack that works very well and I'm sure a lot cheaper
Agreed--and just as many young ones willing to use a scabby transmission jack on a large gear box. Only takes one time, the crushed limbs and broken parts & pieces makes that 3,000 lb OTC transmission jack cheap.