Design fails
- Thread starter Bald Rick
- Start date
Lincs Lass
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- Location
- north lincs
Designers at JCB obviously didn't think through consequences of putting filler cap on their skid steer in such a stupid position then allowing them loose on dairy farms. Grrr
Is your pressure washer broken .
Nope all 3 are working but no time for pratting about. There was nothing wrong with the filler up by top of arm on the older models. Tinkering because they can with little thought to practicalities
clbarclay
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- Location
- Worcestershire
I'm sure someone patted themselves on the back for that cost reduction.
deleted user 837354
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What are these washers of pressure you speak of?
GeorgeK
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- Location
- Leicestershire
What about leaving the cap off so any muck drops in the tank, leaving the opening clear. You've paid for fuel filters, may as well use them
dieselboost
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Or get said old fuel filter, decore it and pop it over the filler cap!
deleted user 837354
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I don't see an issue; it is clearly a protective passivating layer of cow muck that prevents any and all deterioration of the paintwork by UV light.
Put a bit of pipe over the cap so it protects the cap & keeps it clean. I thought of that in less time than it took for you to write the opening post
Genius .... now what keeps the pipe clean?
Nothing. Attach a cap and bit of string/wire higher up where there's less sh*te so you can pull it off to expose a much cleaner filler cap.
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
I'm surprised any dairyman was fool enough to buy a machine with such an obvious fault....
Seems over complicated. Tbh, I just fetch out my knife and scrape away.
Just seemed to me an inordinately stupid place for the filler
Basic daily maintenance would include cleaning down a machine to inspect it for both maintenance and safety. Unless that is less important the earning a pound!
Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset
Mines got a guard that covers the filler cap resulting in a perfectly clean cap
- Location
- South wales
Just put the cap on the shelf before you loose it anyway and stuff some net or balled up cord in the hole pull it out when needing to fill hey presto shite comes off with it leaving a clean filler neck with absolutely no fuel contamination ??
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
Is it just me or has @Bald Rick just raised a valid basic design fault on a frontline machine putting it on this forum to both show his frustration and hopefully to be seen by the manufacturers that we all know lurk on here, only to be greeted by a barrage of unhelpfulness. When I seen the title of this thread I thought it was going to be a good thread for us to highlight design flaws of equipment to the powers that be, unfortunately doesn't seem to be heading that way.
deleted user 837354
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JCB sell so much stuff they won't give a fudge.
Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset
@Bald Rick needs to get the cover from the machine’s former owner.
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