OT- Pettibone 88 looking for cylinder seal kits

I would start with Pettibone. They will have an electronic file on your machine. They sent me the entire build file and also a full set of manuals for my Super 6 to a drop box they set up. I am not sure if they will detail the actual seal or not but they might. On the other hand your seals will be pretty standard, should be available at any good hydraulic shop.

Luckily I got manuals with my machine (parts & operator), however they are quite rough, all the pictures are so blacked out I can't really distinguish anything.

Do you know if service manuals can be had for these?

Have you found any other online forums where there are some old time Pettibone mechanics?

I suspect the seals are common sizes, but I'd like to have current part numbers to ensure availability before I dig into anything if possible.

[quote="ETD66SS"]Luckily I got manuals with my machine (parts & operator), however they are quite rough, all the pictures are so blacked out I can't really distinguish anything.

Do you know if service manuals can be had for these?

Have you found any other online forums where there are some old time Pettibone mechanics?

I suspect the seals are common sizes, but I'd like to have current part numbers to ensure availability before I dig into anything if possible.[/quote]

Pettibone supplied one custom set of books to the owner matching each machine they built. They also kept an electronic copy for themselves. I easily got a electronic copy direct from Pettibone for my exact machine at no charge. I simply sent an e-mail to corporate Pettibone with my machine serial numbers explaining what I was looking for and a fellow e-mailed me back and set up the drop box. It was the easiest set of books I ever got. There are no generic Pettibone books to my knowledge.

I personally know the former shop foreman from the Duluth, MN manufacturing facility but they made log skidders, railroad front loaders, and railroad truck cranes only. No forklifts were made in Duluth to my knowledge. He is up there in age and most of the rest of the local workforce are long deceased. It was a great job for a few handfulls of local folks when I was a teenager. It was Leonard the shop forman that told me to contact Pettibone for the manuals.

[quote]Pettibone supplied one custom set of books to the owner matching each machine they built. They also kept an electronic copy for themselves.[/quote]

My machine is from 1971, there were no "electronic" copies? However, I will contact them with my serial number to see if there is anything they can send me.

[quote]I personally know the former shop foreman from the Duluth, MN manufacturing facility but they made log skidders, railroad front loaders, and railroad truck cranes only. No forklifts were made in Duluth to my knowledge. He is up there in age and most of the rest of the local workforce are long deceased. It was a great job for a few handfulls of local folks when I was a teenager. It was Leonard the shop forman that told me to contact Pettibone for the manuals.[/quote]

That's pretty neat. It would be nice to find some maintenance guys who worked on these units, the IH UB-240 engine, the Funk transmission, the Michigan Transaxle drivetrain, etc. All those companies have changed hands and I doubt there is any help/info/parts that are easily accessible.

First step for me right now is to get the parking brake functional and go from there. I need to check engine compression as well, the engine seems really tired when the hydraulics load it up, the unit shows 6900 hours.

Any thing useful here?
http://www.epm.com/products/seal-kits/pettibone/

[quote]Pettibone supplied one custom set of books to the owner matching each machine they built. They also kept an electronic copy for themselves.[/quote]

My machine is from 1971, there were no "electronic" copies? However, I will contact them with my serial number to see if there is anything they can send me.

[quote]I personally know the former shop foreman from the Duluth, MN manufacturing facility but they made log skidders, railroad front loaders, and railroad truck cranes only. No forklifts were made in Duluth to my knowledge. He is up there in age and most of the rest of the local workforce are long deceased. It was a great job for a few handfulls of local folks when I was a teenager. It was Leonard the shop forman that told me to contact Pettibone for the manuals.[/quote]

That's pretty neat. It would be nice to find some maintenance guys who worked on these units, the IH UB-240 engine, the Funk transmission, the Michigan Transaxle drivetrain, etc. All those companies have changed hands and I doubt there is any help/info/parts that are easily accessible.

First step for me right now is to get the parking brake functional and go from there. I need to check engine compression as well, the engine seems really tired when the hydraulics load it up, the unit shows 6900 hours.

[QUOTE=ETD66SS;171034]My machine is from 1971, there were no "electronic" copies? However, I will contact them with my serial number to see if there is anything they can send me.



My machine is the same age as yours Mr. Negative. I'm sure they scanned them in. Try a little positive thinking.

[QUOTE=old-iron-habit;171050][quote="ETD66SS"]My machine is from 1971, there were no "electronic" copies? However, I will contact them with my serial number to see if there is anything they can send me.



My machine is the same age as yours Mr. Negative. I'm sure they scanned them in. Try a little positive thinking.[/quote]

Sorry was not trying to be negative, I'm not sure there was technology to "scan" documents in 1971? If I remember correctly there was only analog "ditto" machines for copying. There was no computers, no printers etc (maybe government and military had them, but probably not a company like Pettibone). So I'm thinking they would have to have kept a paper copy of the manual on file to scan with today's technology to get an electronic copy, or they photographed all their originals on microfiche, and they made you a digital copy from that.

Can you tell me if your manual looks in similar quality to mine? http://imgur.com/a/B6IEz

Mine looks like a photocopy of an original manual, some of the pages have photocopied scribbling and paper clips on them, and the photographs are all solid black almost. I'm hoping the electronic copy they gave you is much more clear.

Yes, definitely an aftermarket print. It's just like a Jensales manual including the plastic binding - direct scan / photocopy of a manual but with poor resolution. With a modern scanner, it's very hard to tell particularly if the scanned manual was in tip-top shape.