Birch was sending an IR compressor to auction and one of the ones we were keeping had a bent axle. What management decided to do was swap the axle of the good one we were selling with the bad axle on the unit we were keeping. My job was to put the good axle on the unit we were keeping. The only catch was it was all the way in the back of the yard with no axle on it...yay. I ended up rigging the compressor with a reach lift and some lifting straps with the proper weight rating. Once I got it in the air I installed the axles and tightened the bolts just enough to be able to tow it to the shop. Once I got there I too out the bolts, cleaned them up with a wire wheel, and lined up the axle with the witness marks of the previous axle. That means I'm assuming the axle before was flush, plumb, square and where it needed to be. I was going to take some measurements and see if it was true, but was told that it was good enough and I was splitting hairs. Bolts were torqued with a torque wrench to 240 ft lbs.
Another job that is somewhat unsavory is mast hoses on an industrial forklift. The key is to marking all of your hoses, pulleys, and tensioners. That way you know how to route the new hoses when you install them. What happens is you rip all that stuff off and when you go to put it back together you go uhhhhhhh how did this go again? It just saves you time and prevents a headache. Doosan also likes to put the head of the bolts for their hose tensioners so that you have to line it up and then feed the bolt through the back side where you can't see.
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