JCB 525-58

[Massey_3115]

Is there anything to look out for on these teleporters apart from normal wear and tear?

 

[Nearly]

Cracking around the back of the boom pivots and under / over the boom.
Sensors for 4 wheel steer being out of action.

Main cause of death was fire from main loom insulation wearing and shorting on chassis.

@ACEngineering

 

[bobk]

4 oil leaks is good .

 

[John 1594]

Cracking around the back of the boom pivots and under / over the boom.
Sensors for 4 wheel steer being out of action.

Main cause of death was fire from main loom insulation wearing and shorting on chassis.

@ACEngineering

electric 4 wheel steer can be converted to a manual selection valve for less than 30 quid providing you dont need the crab steer feature, very often its not the sensors but the brain that is at fault. The manual selection valve used on machine such as the 526S was a far better idea, how they all should have been IMO

 

[DeeGee]

Got two of them and both have been good reliable machines. Both were bought second hand at about ten years old and they are now double that age.
No real problems with either other than wearing parts; but they are both well looked after.

 

[Massey_3115]

Thanks very much for the replies