It had 16,000 frame hours 8,000 hrs on everything but the engine, think engine had around 10,000 hrs, someone filled it with sand at 6,000 hrs in North Omaha. I bought it brand new in 1983 with factory cab, engine enclosures, lights and logging sweeps. I got 32k for mine, granted not what it was worth. I'd appreciate any and all opinions and commments!! Probably try to get a little outside work as well. I'll be using it for clearing on my stump ranch-mostly small pine to take out and grading the land enough to get agricultural equipment working the soil. ![]() I haven't seem much talk on this site about the D6D.is it a decent machine? Any warts that a guy should watch out for? In the same lineup as this machine there is another D6D, 1979-I noticed it had fish plates welded to the sides of both track frames just ahead of the sprocket. Its got an angledozer, hydraulic tilts and a cute little parallelogram ripper that looks like it should have been on a grader. I've got an opportunity to pick up a 1981 D6D, 04X serial prefix. The early ones had small bearings in the crossshaft, the finals drive bearings go out around 8,000 hrs, the angle blade is for shaping, not worth a crap for trees or production dozing, probably why roller frames are cracked Tractor will do a ton of work and you can haul it on a two axle lowboy. No big job to re the seals, just an indication of what has been happening. If it has been run hot a lot, the seals under the trans pump and assorted other valve blocks near the torque will be leaking. Pull off the floor panels under your feet on the operators station after you get it hot and look around for leaks. Factory D6 ripper is pretty large so it sounds like this one is lighter, but still might be fine. These are just problems that all old tractors will run into, don't let it sway you much, I fixed every bit of this on my D6D, and it is a very dependable and economical tractor to run. Radiator core must be good for good cooling too. Also the fan and alternator pulleys may be shot (this is an old tractor) and this will slow down the fan for less cooling. Probably need new injectors too at the same time, look real hard at the fan drive.if bearings are loose, hub is probably shot. Listen for exhaust gaskets leaking, this means broken manifold bolts, best fix is to trade head to cat for a reman and a new manifold, probably a new turbo too. If the owner will let you, put it in the dirt for a couple hours and push for all it is worth, if the trans/torque gauge goes into the red there are issues here to deal with. And u can angle the blade to the left to 55 degrees for transport so the width of blade can go inside width of tracks.Parts for these are very easy to find and available from many aftermarket sources. The only thing that has broke for me was the right side door window when a tree jumped up and got it, had the window same day from dealer.And i know they are about 15 to 17 thousand less than cat. ![]() It just depends on what ur using it for and we do about what ur describing. ![]() Not an M but still the old two lever and two pedal system. But i have run D5 c's, H, AND 3 different M models all the way up to an D8. Or canada since i heard they just closed a plant up their. The D41's are made in brazil, the D5's are made in spain and deere i would have to say iowa or ill. And parts are good too, and dont say it cant have parts close by for it cause its made in japan cause its not. Again (in my opinion not wanting to start a war here.) Cause I know for a fact i can keep up with 10 straight trucks and 1 belly dump hauling all day and 2 roller tractors doing a job 200 feet wide and 600 feet long building pad.With fill at one about 9ft something and the other end was like a foot of fill. Cat has that D5C good little machine but the hydro-stat sucks on them. Gets into tight spaces and such, little lacking power i think. I have operated the 550 H i think it was for awhile, good little machine. But also with that the komatsu has a direct drive which (in my opinion) seems to have alot more power than a cat. We bought a brand new komatsu D41p last march, and the thing compared (in my opinion) to cats blows them away.
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