Stam have u dealt with ryder b4?
lol seriously ed? sorry to offend you and your dog with my extremely poor english but when I work on crowns there usually is a lot of double negatives.
if repairing spelling and grammar is your forte I'm sure there are other forums where people are asking for help with this or check out the euro brand forklift forums, you'll be busy!
good luck with ryder there joh.
a tech came today and looked at the problem. there was no chain break just that the two cylinders were not coming down at the same time so one side had more cable slack hence triggering the sensors. when the tech open some covers up he found out that the unit was never lubricated. so he sprayed half a can of chain and cable lube every where. he also lubed the nipples. but the turret will be taken back to change some bearings.
i have added several pics
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well joh_l if you want us to see that image you'll need to doctor up that website url a bit so it will appear here... add some spaces in the http and www part... that usually works ;o)
I found ths used turret in the states sell for $26000usd i got an authorized crown dealer in canada to import it and to do any work neccessery. A month later of "recertification" the final bill was $59000.the image of the broken and missing belt thats in the shaft.http://instagram.com/p/oa_sgUIybs/
I agree with Swoop that; "i guess we need clarification",
but heck, it's on the internets, so I am just jump to conclusions anyway (?isn't that what we are supposed to do on the internets)?...
it is true in my experience that Crown TSP operators can break all kinds of stuff, and unless there was someone [with deep pockets, like Crown Inc.] standing behind it, and offering a definition of what "re-certified" means, then "re-certified" could well mean that the sales-person looked twice at the machine, 1 time to certify it was a Crown, and then looked a second time [re-certify] to be sure it was a TSP.
AND heck, even if it was the best Crown Tech on the planet doing the inspection, no one can know the future enough to be sure to catch every single possible 'future failure' (and that is one of the reasons the word and concept of "warranty" was invented, wasn't it? _NEW_ fork truck dealerships would be looking for a new 'revenue stream' if they didn't have warranty).
and Stam,
[?can I pick on your English language skills for a second? {says the guy who claims bi-lingual education taught him to be functionally illiterate in 2 languages} before I have my morning coffee, I need a "double negative alert" for;]
"I don't think main lift chains breaking on a tsp are uncommon". You are correct the lift chains breaking are not often enough to be called 'common', but surely are not called "rarely ever" by the Crown TSP techs either.
well stam, the topic header says 3/4 chain break but in his thread entry he says 'the belt broke'....
i guess we need clarification ;o)
I don't think main lift chains breaking on a tsp are uncommon. i heard that they do that as well as break mast to tractor mount bolts.
can you be more specific on which belt you speak of?
and also just fyi...
when dealing with 'recertified' machines you are 'trusting' that the dealer went through the machine thoroughly and did replace all worn parts. Sometimes they may not replace every single part on the truck if it appears to be satisfactory according to wear standards. It could have been within the spec's they use and at the time it was ok. But being you've only had it a month and this part broke i'd be willing to say it may of had a problem that was not visible at the time of inspection or they just simply overlooked it.