I'll be in Oz this week and I'll have another session of overdue maintenance.
Could someone with an extradig equipped P8 please post a pic showing the steel pipes down the dipper? Mine have been flapping around for a while and it'd be nice to know what shape they are supposed to be before I make it worse!
The parts list shows it
straight with a 180° bend at the bottom (mine are banana shape and only ~90
° at the moment!).
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Also, has anyone replaced the extradig wear strips? The only info the manual has is "take it someone else".
I'm thinking if I fully extend the extradig and put it a full reach (as flat as the boom/dipper will go). Disconnect the hoses to the bucket and remove the ram pin, I can drive forward to expose and replace the lower wear-strips.
With the lower wear wear-strips fully withdrawn (adjusting bolts removed) I'll have plenty of clearance to reassemble the dipper-inner at this stage, but will I be able to slip the upper wear-strips into position?