Hello? Welcome to a new episode of ALMAX. I’m Ben and today we’re gonna be talking about bushings and pins. So pins and bushings. Every machine has them. Excavators, skid steers, bulldozers, wheel loaders, crawler dozers, whatever, every machine has pins and bushings. Connect the loader frame to the machine, to the buckets, connecting the hydraulic cylinders to different portions on the machine.
They’re all over the place and you know what, when you get some sloppy play. It is time to do some replacing of some bushings and pins. There’s really no pointS in doing one without the other
Buy bushings by new pins because obviously what happened is the bushing is designed
to kind of wear out so it doesn’t ruin the actual hydraulic cylinder or the frame of the machine so they put bushings in to take up that play. But also, the actual steel on the big pin gets wore out too. So, you want tightness.
Nothing compared to the before. Dude, that ain’t good, okay? If you notice on the inside of the bushings, and it changes from manufacturer to manufacturer, to different machine so forth but as a generic look you can see inside there. Maybe there’s a bunch of grooves inside
and it’s not because ALMAX sells groovy parts, which we do, but it’s an actual design where the grease goes in so that when the bushing has to go up and down it’s a little lubricated, eh?
So pretty much every bushing has it for instance and the smaller one got the same scenario on the inside there. So wherever the grease point is again different manufacturer by machine model and everything else the pin will end up getting lubed by greasing it which the bushing again has grease that kind of stores inside. Because there’s grease that gets stored inside people sometimes don’t grease them which will really wear the pin down where the bushing out and you’ll just have to replace it. So grease all the stuff on the machine that needs to be greased, okay?
The other thing is that some of the pins and bushings have a dust seal. Because what’s holding the grease on the inside? Let’s seal it up!
Dust seal. So then the grease can’t come out and dust can’t go in which obviously would contaminate the grease. So up at the top of the pin obviously is where the retainer will go. Some guys just put a bolt in here but there is actual correct hardware that’s supposed to go in.
Sometimes they just have two different holes depending on the type of machine you got. So typically, also when one pin goes it’s probably time to pretty much change the rest of them so bear that in mind. You can have one end of the machine that’s tight the other side loose, it might be just time to bite the bullet and get them all replaced.
The machine will be nice and tight. You’ll be a lot more accurate
when you’re trying to dig on excavator instead of having play in your bucket and so forth, like that when you’re dozing you’re trying to go in straight lines and everything like that, instead of having play on there you can be solid making some good precise ground engaging and ground eliminating depending on what type of machine you got. We’ve got kits on some machines to replace all of them and call us up, we’d be more than happy to help you out and get you some new pins and bushings.
We have aftermarket ones available. Typically, honestly the quality is pretty darn good regardless of what aftermarket company you go with but we have some very reputable people that we do business with so I got to be honest, I don’t think we’ve ever, I don’t think we’ve ever had a return for a broken aftermarket pin or a worn-out bushing or something likethat, ever in the history of ALMAX.
