fieldserviceengineer
Bronze Member
Locate a "Big Rig repair shop" to buy Baldwin Filters. Truck parts stores also carry Baldwin.
If you are looking for trouble buy Wix. Wix will tell just because the filter screws onto your filter housing the filter will work. WRONG!! I paid to replace the Hyrdo-pump and two drive motors for a Cat 943 loader. Wix filters were used. The Wix filter specs may not same as the manufacturer. Baldwin will not recommend a filter if the specs are not meet. $12,800.00 later,
(plus labor) Wix filter people were no help with the repair. Buy cheap and you get what you paid!
Locate a Baldwin dealer. Get the Wix off your equipment!
In the matter of your filter preference of Baldwin over Wix on the Cat hydrostatic drive loader, why not use the Caterpillar filters. Do you save enough money with aftermarket products such as Wix or Baldwin to pay for the Caterpillar repairs to your drive pumps and motors by not buying Cat filters. Did Caterpillar say your failure was due solely to the Wix filter? How is it that Baldwin is better since it too is an aftermarket filter and not the OE manufacturer? I work for the largest filter company in the Western Hemisphere. OEM equipment companies like Caterpillar will always try to shift any causes of failures to aftermarket filters. Did CAT show you how it is that the Wix filters failed you? May I suggest to anybody, if you have issues about filters with OEM equipment, use the OEM filters as that takes away that excuse from them when they try to tell you the filter choice you made was a poor one. Did you submit your filters to Wix for warranty inspection? As a former Caterpillar dealer training instructon (previous life
) I used to teach classes on troubleshooting the drive system on those loaders. They use one filter. If Cat offers a high efficiency synthetic media filter, use it as that system does generate metallic wear particles. For years Baldwin resisted offering synthetic media products insisting they met OEM performance. Even the company I work for states they meet or exceed OEM filter performance. But the real world is that few companies making aftermarket filters do the necessary multipass testing to determine what the OEM filter performance is like. In the matter of CAT filters, when an aftermarket company wants CAT specs, the only way to get them is to buy Cat filters and test them to determine what their performance is. Then build their products to at least equal that performance. In many of our products we do that for heavy duty application. If you want the comfort of having CAT performance and support, you have to buy a CAT filter. That is especially true for small companies. You do not have the clout of a large company however, I have seen more than a few instances where even the large customers get low respect from Cat dealer parts and service sales people.
If you are looking for trouble buy Wix. Wix will tell just because the filter screws onto your filter housing the filter will work. WRONG!! I paid to replace the Hyrdo-pump and two drive motors for a Cat 943 loader. Wix filters were used. The Wix filter specs may not same as the manufacturer. Baldwin will not recommend a filter if the specs are not meet. $12,800.00 later,
(plus labor) Wix filter people were no help with the repair. Buy cheap and you get what you paid!
Locate a Baldwin dealer. Get the Wix off your equipment!
In the matter of your filter preference of Baldwin over Wix on the Cat hydrostatic drive loader, why not use the Caterpillar filters. Do you save enough money with aftermarket products such as Wix or Baldwin to pay for the Caterpillar repairs to your drive pumps and motors by not buying Cat filters. Did Caterpillar say your failure was due solely to the Wix filter? How is it that Baldwin is better since it too is an aftermarket filter and not the OE manufacturer? I work for the largest filter company in the Western Hemisphere. OEM equipment companies like Caterpillar will always try to shift any causes of failures to aftermarket filters. Did CAT show you how it is that the Wix filters failed you? May I suggest to anybody, if you have issues about filters with OEM equipment, use the OEM filters as that takes away that excuse from them when they try to tell you the filter choice you made was a poor one. Did you submit your filters to Wix for warranty inspection? As a former Caterpillar dealer training instructon (previous life
) I used to teach classes on troubleshooting the drive system on those loaders. They use one filter. If Cat offers a high efficiency synthetic media filter, use it as that system does generate metallic wear particles. For years Baldwin resisted offering synthetic media products insisting they met OEM performance. Even the company I work for states they meet or exceed OEM filter performance. But the real world is that few companies making aftermarket filters do the necessary multipass testing to determine what the OEM filter performance is like. In the matter of CAT filters, when an aftermarket company wants CAT specs, the only way to get them is to buy Cat filters and test them to determine what their performance is. Then build their products to at least equal that performance. In many of our products we do that for heavy duty application. If you want the comfort of having CAT performance and support, you have to buy a CAT filter. That is especially true for small companies. You do not have the clout of a large company however, I have seen more than a few instances where even the large customers get low respect from Cat dealer parts and service sales people.