PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-560
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 560
JULY 1999
perators, your 6K forklift will lift
as long as you want it to lift if you
treat it right. Here are some ways to do
just that:
Starter Switch Reminder
The STARTER-RUN CONTROL
switch is at knee level when you sit in
the cab. An accidental bump pushes
the switch to STARTER. If it’s left in
6K Variable Reach Forklift . . .
130G Grader . . .
A Step in the Right Direction
V
isit any engineering battalion and you’ll see road
graders with banged-up cab steps.
Those steps take a hit when the grader’s blade cuts
a V-ditch, when the blade is raised, or when it’s
turned for travel. That’s because the end of the blade
is under the cab. Operators can’t tell when it’s about
to snag the step and tear it off.
Unit mechanics can replace the old step with a
rubber step assembly that bends forward and back-
ward to keep from getting banged up or ripped off.
Eyeball Para 3-19 of TACOM’s EIR Digest TB
43-0001-39-8 (Mar 96) for info on how to install the
new step assembly.
If you don’t have a copy of the TB, see your
TACOM LAR or write to MSG Half-Mast.
against the tensioners when the boom
is extended or retracted. All that rub-
bing wears holes in the hoses.
Once enough fluid leaks out, there’s
not enough hydraulic pressure to oper-
ate the boom.
Have your mechanic stop the rub by
wrapping a piece of rubber tubing
around the threads of the boom hose
tensioners. Tie strap, NSN 5975-00-
570-9598, holds the tubing in place.
If it’s not already marked, get your
mechanic to stencil DO NOT LUBE
SHAFT on the frame above or below
the slide shaft.
Hose Rub
Hydraulic hoses under the forklift’s
boom get a raw deal. The hoses rub
that position, the battery runs down—
leaving you with a forklift that won’t
start.
Sounds simple, but make sure the
switch is in RUN before you hop from
the cab.
No Lube on Fork Shaft
A light coat of grease on the fork
slide shaft may seem like a good idea
for easing the forks back and forth.
Not so.
Grease attracts dirt and grit like a
magnet. That combo acts like sandpa-
per and scores the bearings inside the
fork tines.
So use dry cleaning solvent to re-
move the gunk, then grease no more.
Stencil warning
before
you
leave, make sure
my
control switch
is in
run!
gotcha!
i can
bounce
back
!
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Add tubing here
Leave switch in RUN position
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