OOps, It's been in low flow

[AGGIE00]

I'm new to the buisness and at the spur of the moment found a machine and bought it. After running it for three weeks it seemed to do fine, but not great. Having never run one before I figured it was par for the course. Did some cleaning work on it this weekend by lifting the cab and dropping the belly pan. Lots of crap in there and it took a couple hours to get it shined up. Afterward I went through the whole machine and discovered that one of the two wires at the front plug that get jumped to have highflow was cut where I couldn't see it. The plug is a bit mangled from previous use and needs to be replaced. I went ahead and spliced the two wires together and holy crap what a difference. I went from content to excited by what this machine will do. Just had to share my ignorance.

 

[Robbie Hegwood]

You are lucky and through to have found it. I do a good many demo's with Cat machine's and atleast 50% of the time they forget the high flow plug. You were running 22gpm @3000psi instead of 33gpm @4100 psi. Was that the reason they sold it?

 

[AGGIE00]

Couldn't tell you, but from the look of the wires and plug it has been that way for some time. My production rate will increase dramatically. This is just a toy for me though. Every now and then we need it for surveying and it's fun to have around the shop. Looking forward to the next project to see what it will do.

 

[AGGIE00]

You are lucky and through to have found it. I do a good many demo's with Cat machine's and atleast 50% of the time they forget the high flow plug. You were running 22gpm @3000psi instead of 33gpm @4100 psi. Was that the reason they sold it?

The machine was a cat repo. What do you think would have been the right price for this setup with 1300 hours?