When we continue to use excavators over time, their parts begin to wear and tear, especially the bushes and pins. These parts are easily replaceable, but you often need tips and guides to help you use and replace them. Here we will give you useful tips how to do this process trouble free.
In case you don’t know, bucket pins hold a bucket to the digger to which it is attached. These pins include ram pins, digger link pins, and boom pins.
In the beginning, all the pins are fastened to their position. But these positions differ from one machine to the next.
Some diggers come with a large nut alongside a washer at the end of a pin. Others come with a hole through which you secure a bolt through the pin.
Some other machines come with a thread at the rear of the pin where you screw in the bolt.
Regardless of the system your excavator operates, the pin should come off without stress whenever it needs to be removed.
It is somewhat easy to remove the pins that lie at the machine’s deeper end. However, when you get upwards to the dipper arm and get to the kingpost through the boom, make sure the arm has adequate support before proceeding to remove the pins.
If you want to remove the booms so you can replace the kingpost bushes, get a forklift and a sling or a crane to assist you when removing and repositioning it.
When you successfully remove all the pins, the bushes come next. We advise you to replace both at the same time because they often wear and tear together. If you replace one part without the other, you might have more severe problems.
