You say it's a half moon shaped casting.......are you looking at the final drive case that sticks down lower than the steering clutch housing on each side?
There will be gear oil in it if its the final drive. Probably not a bad idea to at least drain a sample of the final drive lube into a clean cup looking for debris and water etc. If it's clean, or just a little water, I usually just screw the plug back in and top it up with new lube. If its dirty, drain completely, perhaps rinse through with diesel or kerosene and then refill.
The steering clutch release bearing oil cups or later grease fittings should be at the floor boards just in front of the seat
When you adjust the steering clutch to improve the disengagement what did you do? Did the free travel in the lever decrease from the normal ~3" at the bottom of the black grip? When it needed readjusting, was it still the same measurement? How do the brakes work?
Wasn't there a thread back in the spring about a D4 Traxcavator that had bad pinion bearings or bad final drive bearings that had the same symptoms or was that one going dead on one side? Just thinking out loud......
You say it's a half moon shaped casting.......are you looking at the final drive case that sticks down lower than the steering clutch housing on each side?
There will be gear oil in it if its the final drive. Probably not a bad idea to at least drain a sample of the final drive lube into a clean cup looking for debris and water etc. If it's clean, or just a little water, I usually just screw the plug back in and top it up with new lube. If its dirty, drain completely, perhaps rinse through with diesel or kerosene and then refill.
The steering clutch release bearing oil cups or later grease fittings should be at the floor boards just in front of the seat
When you adjust the steering clutch to improve the disengagement what did you do? Did the free travel in the lever decrease from the normal ~3" at the bottom of the black grip? When it needed readjusting, was it still the same measurement? How do the brakes work?
Wasn't there a thread back in the spring about a D4 Traxcavator that had bad pinion bearings or bad final drive bearings that had the same symptoms or was that one going dead on one side? Just thinking out loud......
on the operator station there are three oil locations. the first is on the left next to the steering brake and takes transmission oil every ten hours. the next two are just under the front lip of the seat platform on a seat tank model. they are about ten inches apart and about three inches tall with a small spring loaded cap facing forward. these take engine oil and should be given a couple of strokes from an oil can every ten hours. make sure the plugs are removed from the bottom of the steering clutch housing so the excess oil doesn't fill the cavity over the years.
I found the oil stations, but the two under the seat lip are grease fittings not oil cups, I will give them a good shot of grease after the kerosene clean. Thanks for your reply.
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