So here I am removing the fill plug cap on this Cat 54 winch and found it with a buggered up mess on top of the CAT fitting.
I suspect someone lost the original cap on the cat fitting and cross threaded another fitting on it followed by another cross threaded fitting on top of that fitting.
What a mess.
I went down the local hardware store this morning and this fitting is neither 1-1/2 or 1-3/4. I wet to the hydraulic shop and ran into another stump.
Cat proprietary threads? As this is nothing more than the fill cap, my desire is to either replace that which is there or not desiring to spend a bunch of money on a fill cap, cut this mess in 1/2 above the hex that screws into the top of the winch and then weld another steel fitting on that. That final steel fitting welded would be a bit more common a thread pattern to avoid this in the future by the next owner. Not wanting to lose another day with good weather, I am headed out to fix what I can in order to get things moving around here. The fitting will be waiting for a part number and if the price is too high, a fabrication in the future.
Sorry 'bout your bad luck Cat.
Thank you in advance! Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Winch Serial number 19E220
Sales Model 54 AROANG (?) NO 6P979
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