Takeuchi Parts: What Wears First and What to Keep on Hand
On a compact excavator or track loader, the parts that take the beating wear first: the bucket teeth, the tracks and sprockets, the pins and bushings at every pivot, and the hydraulic hoses. Filters are the parts you replace most often. Check the wear parts on the daily walkaround and order them before they fail, because a part that fails on the job stops the machine. Keep filters, hoses, belts, teeth, and fluids on the shelf, so a worn one doesn’t cost you a day. We stock genuine Takeuchi parts for the compact excavators and track loaders we sell and rent, so have the model, serial number, and hour meter reading ready when you call.
Bucket teeth
Worn, dull teeth make the machine work a lot harder for the same trench, and that extra work wears the machine. Look at the teeth on the walkaround and replace them before they round off. Don’t dig with a tooth missing, because the bare adapter grinds away and the new tooth won’t seat right. Corner teeth go fastest, so move them to the center. Many teeth can be turned over. Flip one when its lower edge goes, and the set wears evenly.
Tracks and sprockets
The undercarriage is a significant part of what a track machine costs, and how you run and tension the tracks decides much of how long it lasts. Our guide to undercarriage wear and track tension covers the daily check and the yearly measurement that shows how much life is left.
Pins and bushings
Pins and bushings wear fast when the grease points get skipped. Grease every pivot point the manual lists, on the machine and on the attachment, at the interval it lists. Play at the bucket or the boom means they’re going, and worn pins and bushings put more stress on the machine and take control away from the operator.
Hydraulic hoses
Check the hoses on the walkaround for cracks, blisters, and any wet spot, and fix a leak while it’s small. We make hoses to order, so a worn one can be replaced before it lets go. If one does let go, shut the machine down, give the pressure time to bleed off, and never feel for the leak with your hand, because hydraulic oil under pressure goes through skin.
Filters
Change the oil filter with every oil change and the fuel filters at the interval in the manual. The air filter has no interval: change it when the machine’s indicator says so, and don’t pull it out to look at it, because that lets in more dirt than leaving it alone. Use genuine Takeuchi filters, because the machine was developed and tested on them. Drain the fuel filter’s water trap on the walkaround, and keep a spare set of fuel filters in the cab for the winter.
What to keep on hand
Keep filters, hoses, belts, cutting edges, bucket teeth, hydraulic fluid, oil, and a battery on the shelf. Those are the wear parts we tell customers to stock before the season, because a machine that waits on a part is a crew that waits with it.
Ordering
Read the serial number off the machine’s plate and give us the hour meter reading. Our guide to ordering parts covers what else to have ready and how to send the order.
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