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Spent 9 hours chasing a gremlin on the load chart only to find a bent pin on a 15 year old harness
Last Tuesday I was running a 60 ton on a hospital job in Tacoma and the LMI kept throwing a fault code every time I boomed out past 40 degrees. I swapped the cable, cleaned the connectors, and even had the shop send a tech out who charged us $600 just to shrug at it. Turned out one of the pins in the main harness connector was bent just enough to lose contact when the boom flexed, took me 9 hours total to find a 2 minute fix. Anyone else keep a spare harness pigtail in the truck for stuff like this, or am I just unlucky with old iron?
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maxmurphy16h ago
Been there with a 20 year old Link-Belt, and what saved me was wiggling every pin in the connector while a buddy watched the LMI display, the one that flickers is your problem. A spare pigtail lives in my toolbox now, since old harness pins get weak and a $40 part beats another $600 tech visit.
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