New Member with D8F Cat

Hi new member with D8-F... great looking machine...a new cat paint job won't do it justice in my opinion...looks good as is....what is your asking price and where are you located? Welcome aboard to the club.

HI,
I'm located in Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada. While I have $ 16,500 "invested" in this machine, I will accept more. LOL. Seriously, any reasonable will be considered. I just ordered a set of Repair manuals and a parts manual from Ebay and expect to have them in a few days.
Here is a link of us moving the Cat from my friend's "back forty" to a construction yard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atGxeNm-OP0&feature=share&list=UU5SZJlC-FhGm3rK30nP_UbA

Enjoy,

Cap

The tracks are on backwards......I'm OCD about that.

Hello Cap,
There is NO such thing as cable drive. It has a hydraulic dozer blade and was not converted over from cable. The unit on the back of the tractor is a Double Drum Cable Control Unit, (DDCCU) used for pulling a scraper or a pull ripper. On tractors not equipped with a hydraulic dozer blade, then the unit was also used to raise and lower the dozer blade but not in your case. That is NOT a winch. catskinner

Sorry, not on for a few days but thanks catskinner for setting that straight.
Must admit I'm a little embarrassed about how much I don't know about this machine but considering my intended usage, it looked like a good fit at the time. My D8 repair and parts manuals arrived but no mention of the cable control devices (not winches). I engaged the operating lever recently and while the diesel groaned a little, the drums remained cemented. A closer look indicated that the shoe like, brake drum like device was frozen stiff. As my manuals don't cover this device, can you tell me what make these are or what steps I can make to make them operational?

Cap

CCU's are covered in separate manuals. Get the s/n off the unit, most likely a #29 model 56Cxxxx s/n or a #127 model (almost the same) with s/n 31Exxxx

Thanks Magnet, got some time now so will have a fresh look.

Hi,

I'm back with some Pictures and numbers as they don't seem to match those provided by Magnet. Have a look at my Uploaded Pics and note the number 9D3573.
I guess the Photos got loaded back on my opening page.

Regards

Cap

That's a # 25 cable control which runs off the trans, a #29 is live and runs off the engine via a drive shaft under the deck