Hey your buddy needs a freelift cylinder rebuild kit his secondary cylinders are lifting out of sequence because there is too much drag on the gland seals which is why the rod has seal material smearing onto it. The seals in the gland at the end of the cylinder tube get rust between the seal and gland which rust-jacks the seals against the rod I worked on these exact lifts in the field for four years for a Toyota dealer in the Pittsburgh PA and still service the same area. If you have any questions just reach out been watching your videos for years
As a forklift mechanic I approve this video lol ... Toyota’s are pretty good machines. I work on almost all brands and I actually repair these the least if that tells you anything. Just make sure you stay on top of your greasing and she’ll last a while
Not a mechanic, but I owned a fleet of Toyota lifts. Bought them new, never a serious problem of any kind. Kept them properly maintained and were still going strong when we sold the business.
@@Watchyn_Yarwood yeah Toyota has the same quality in their forklifts as they do their cars and trucks. If I ever needed to own one I’d buy a Toyota hands down lol
As a forklift mechanic for 20 years, and same as you, work on all brands I have to say I have a good amount of respect for them - the trucks I look after in the field with the highest hours on them are nearly exclusively Toyota's
Hey Rich! Great video. You touched on a lot of points most people overlook. I'd like to add a few footnotes: I worked on all kinds of forklifts for many years and Toyotas were the best in every measurable way: reliable, easy to work on and get parts for, cheap to run, hold value extremely well, never once did I ever shake my head at how they were designed or dealing with parts availability, which says a lot. As you said annual lift inspections aren't required for agriculture, so any agricultural use will hurt resale value (sorry Kevin!) If you want attachments, make SURE they're accounted for on the capacity plate - as the weight and the increased distance it puts the load from the axle centre (load centre) will reduce your lift capacity (sometimes drastically!) If you're adding something, better figure this out if you don't want to tip over. 3-stage masts are the most desirable - if you don't plan on ever lifting too high, a two-stage might be a deal. Quad masts are expensive to fix, so steer clear unless you need to lift that high. Beware - I've seen some people cut masts off one truck and put them on another to resell - if the welds on the axle pivot don't look factory or there's fresh paint there, it may be a cut-and-shut. Cascade makes a nice kit for checking forks - comes in a box with the gauge and a set of instructions. Check it out. Most chain manufacturers make a gauge of their own but they're all the same - use it properly! Also check the section that sits on the chainwheel as that's where the most wear happens. Stretch is important but also turned pins! All the swage marks on the pins need to line up with each other - if one is turned it has broken loose from the leaf and is in danger of walking out (this usually happens due to rusting or overloading and is a fail). You mentioned the swing lock cylinder - good eye! There's a plastic plug on it you can pry off and check if an indicator pin has moved, indicating the charge inside has gone out. They are normally closed, electrically unlocked so if it's articulating when the truck is on, and you've checked the pin, you're fine! If there's an electrical problem it usually shows up on the dash. They're not bad to figure out - get the manual set from the dealer, they're extremely well written. I'm sure there's a ton more to mention - but Kevin has the most desirable model of the most desirable mfr - Toyota. From a completely unbiased opinion (I no longer work in the industry), it'll be a great ownership experience! Bonus tip: Lift the forks up and lean the mast back, place hardwood blocks under the mast heels and tilt forward - it'll lift the body up several inches so you can block behind the front wheels for servicing underneath or changing tires. Faster and easier than jacking it up!
Excellent summarization, you covered everything needed.I worked on forklifts for 17yrs after 5yrs on h/d trucks. Worked for a Cat forklift dealer 13yrs and a Yale dealer 4yrs. I agree about Toyotas, they get A's in all aspects, fit & finish, reliability, serviceability, quality materials, logical engineering. Yale is a strong second place.
Swing lock is easy to test. With the truck on jack it up from the year and put a pry bar under one of the tires and articulate one of the wheels up. Turn the truck off and lower it down and you'll notice it's not completely level. Turn the truck on and it should automatically articulate down back to level. That's how you test and make sure that system works.
Test the stability system just jack up one of the steering tire (not extremely high like 2-3“) with the key on. Then turn off the key and lower the jack and the tire should be up in the air until you turn back on the key and the forklift will suddenly go back down. Parking brake is required for this.
For me the process was: Does it work: No Age: 60+ years Big wheel: yes In good condition/well maintained: Hell no Price: $500 Parts readily available: not really So I bought it. After replacing all the hydraulic lines, making the brakes work, and redoing some of the wiring, it's been great. The only major repairs it's needed in 4 years are an oil pump after that exploded, and a hydraulic pump after it blew the shaft seal and dumped all the hydraulic fluid into the engine. I also had to replace the water pump recently. Well worth it. It just sucks that it's so old that it doesn't have power steering, so it is really hard to drive, even on dirt. But it's dead simple and easy to fix anything, which is what I wanted.
Damn that "Hell no" made me laugh for 2 minutes, my 2 cracked ribs do not thank you ! Just out of curiosity, how much did the repairs amount to ? Have you been able to rebuild anything yourself or had to buy new parts ?
@@crezychameau The oil pump plus the engine bearings it took out was around $200. It was about $250 to get the hydraulic pump rebuilt, and the water pump was $80. Everything in the thing was designed to be easily serviceable so yes I can do pretty much everything myself.
I have been working with TMHU for years. I currently manage a Toyota parts department. That is the a great lift and TOYOTA has the highest resale value. You can verify that per Ritchie bros auctions.
My absolute favorite forklift was a (probably) 20 year old Linde with the hydrostatic transmission. Had a forward pedal and a reverse pedal (no shifting). 3 tier boom, side shift. It only had a parking brake, the motion system was the braking system so no regular brake pedal, just take you foot off the direction pedal and it begins to stop. I hated it at first. But once I got used to it it was my favorite.
The production forklifts at my work are Lindes, I don't like how they don't creep forwards when you let off the brake and immediately slow down when you left off the gas. The maintenance lifts that I drive are old Doosans, they're decent. I don't drive lift all day every day so that might make a difference.
I put 8500 hours on a similar sized cat machine, it has a lot more slop in the control linkages than yours. Side shift is a mandatory feature far as I'm concerned, great choice.
One thing I miss the most about the last company I worked for was both forklifts had side shift. My current work doesn't and it's bitten me in the ass so many times. Having to do a million point turn with something heavy way up high on the forks sucks, being able to side shift it over would be so much nicer.
We have a forklift at work and it has the solid tires on it. We were getting stuck in the snow everywhere in the garden so we got a set of chains. Night and day difference!
If you're going to be using a forklift for anything where safety inspections are happening, for like a personal business where the forklift gets moved around to job sites, don't drill holes in your forks. Use an adapter and swing it onto the fork mast that has a tow eye. or make an adapter that can be chained to the forks. You definitely don't want to have to replace forks unless you absolutely have to.
As a forklift tech for Raymond who's owned by toyota. Toyota makes a good lift truck. Good call on your chains. Free lift chains get used 2x as much as main lift chains. Proper lubrication will give them a long life. You got A good truck
Great info. Just want to add something to keep in mind. If you want a lift that will raise a 6000 pound load, you will need a 8000 pound lift capacity fork lift. If you have a lift that says it can raise 6000 pounds, you have to subtract the carriage and fork weight from the lift capacity.
been a forklift tech in your area for over 30yrs. Toyota forklifts are the best up tp 10,000lb capacity.The Cadillac. they go the most hrs for the least amount of repair. That forklift there is valued at around 15k. and yes u can drill a hole in the fork. the manufacture has specs on how to do so on there website.
These Toyota forklifts are the best LPG and diesel forklifts out there in my opinion, these are truly magnificent and robust machines. They run smoothly, can take a beating, and are surprisingly comfortable considering their utilitarian mission. We got like 12 of them at my job and they just keep on running and running. I love running them. Great video.
We only have Toyota forklifts in our fleet. We still have 6FGCU25 models that still run like champs with close to 30,000 hours. They run 24/5 nonstop. Routine maintenance makes these lifts last a lifetime damn near.
Still got my forklift license... chicks dig it. Love the machinery vids and love this channel. First video I ever seen was the Deutz tractor (air cooled diesel episode and why you shouldn’t be feared of them ) and I have been hooked ever since. Keep these up and your buddy buying equipment along with the other channel cause this shit is great. Thanks from Missoura
Always nice seeing a truck we built years ago in good shape. Also the transmissions should be checked with the engine off, fill it, put the dipstick in and run for a minute and check it again. Repeat that until the dipstick reads full. Inside of the mast needs greased every once in a while too. Side rollers and bearing aren’t fun to change. The new trucks are nice too. I’d recommend coming to tour the plant when the borders open up. Plant 1 is huge and the rotunda is nice as well. Great place to work at honestly.
I've often thought it would be interesting to see a total engine RPM counter along with the hours. Give you an idea of if it's spent loads of time idling (which can be worse than being used for some engines), if it's been thrashed or whatever.
@@Jaxon-iu6vb Total fuel used would also be a good measure, you're right. That is coming with the more modern vehicles with telematics, who knows whether that sort of information will be available to second users or be used to swing the price at all.
Hyster is a great name. I'm glad to hear their electric forklifts have served y'all well. They have an awesome line of LPG forklifts too, the H60FT that's bulletproof. I used to use their electric walkie pallet jacks when I worked in grocery retail, they never needed anything but water. Extremely reliable.
Pro safety tip from a forklift mechanic when working on a Toyota with the SAS system and its important. DO NOT start the engine if you've got the machine jacked over at a sideways angle, if you do the SAS ram on the steer axle will kick in to try level the truck up potentially throwing the machine off the jack/blocks. On the electrics its even worse as they will do the same thing but as soon as you turn the ignition on. Trust me - I've been there 😂
The ones at my company are yales, God damn do those things get beat on. My friend drives one, burnouts all day, slamming from forwards to reverse, startup cold with the pedal held to the floor, clutch dumps, etc lol
Got Hyster EX70s, EX80s and EX120s, all electric, with fingertip switches and power fork spreaders, basically completely tricked out trucks. They run damn near 24/7/365 at our plant and have been just drop dead reliable. Some trucks have over 25000 working hours on em and they just keep on going.
Split rings scare the crap out of me even with a tire cage... but a flying ring killed my uncle in '68 and he was across the shop working on something else.
The company that I worked for before I retired has 2 Toyota 5000 lb forklifts. They are a metal spinning shop, so all the raw material they use comes in sheet form. All sizes from 24" wide to 96" wide and up to 144" long. The tooling for the lathes is up to 96" in diameter. The finished products are up to 96" in diameter. They use 1 forklift for receiving and material handling, moving material to shears, punch presses and lathes, the other for moving tooling and shipping. We always had the machines serviced regularly. These 2 forklifts are still going strong after 20 years of use. There is still lots of life left in them. They are a dependable machine capable of doing everything they were designed for and a whole lot that they never dreamed of when designing them.
could always get a extra fork to drill into if your worried about effecting the strength of the fork. it is like a 1 minute job. i use to do it all the time when i worked in a warehouse and our main forklift broke and i would have to use the good old hyster with the monotrol. i missed that hyster it was a good machine even tho it was unsafe. the forks were the park brake for it after i put them on lol.
Watch the wiring to the alternator going overtop of the valve cover. We have multiple Toyota 8FDU25’s that I work on, all above 20,000 hours. Very easy to work on besides wiring, it can get to be a mess very quickly.
I work on Hyster forklifts every day. We have them ranging in years from 1989 all the way up until 2018 and they are good quality. We have a handful of Toyotas as well and they are a good little machine also
I used to run Hyster H100XL they were late 80s early 90 machines had Perkins power. The lifts of lumber we used to pick with them. I had quite a few years of forklift experience before I started at the building supply. I would push the 100XLs to the max I knew how to work a forklift. The other guys would say you can't lift that oh ya watch me their eye balls wide open.
I worked in a factory for a little while as a welding contractor and there wasn’t a single forklift in that place with working brakes of any kind. You slam on them to stop and almost nothing would happen. The higher ups wondered why everything got ran into there
I use an old Yale propane on a farm. Has over 8500 hours, and no brakes. Stopping by slamming into things, or putting it in neutral and slowly using the parking brake
I scored a 1986 Yale 5000# capacity forklift from work for $750 it was made in Japan with a Mazda engine, it even has side shift and hydraulic fork spacers.
Toyota's are pretty damn good forklifts. As a forklift mechanic I've seem them take a pretty good beating. Have several 7fdf15's at an apple farm that have had a horrendous, relentless life now at 25k hrs still on original engines and transmissions. Also got an electric fbm20 in London on 30k hrs. They have their faults, and some silly design on some models but they are good for the long haul.
Good advice for these forklifts is that the wire harness to the dynamo is rubbing in the protection harness so be advised to upgrade the wires to thicker ones! @debossgarage
so for play in the levers, Linde H30 2005 about 15000h no play at all, clark smal one 1993 about inch and half, 20 000h, other litle older linde, side shift lever feel of forklift at about 30 000h, but it has factori water pump on deutz air cold engine. and brand new bent forks in first week of use.
We've got 2 old Komatsu forklifts on our sawmill, they're pieces of junk because there so old and abused but they don't quit. They've got the Nissan H40 lpg engine in them, and they give me issues with the ignition on the regular but otherwise run pretty well.
One thing that caugt my mind... I got to live in a pretty crazy area of Sweden, because into a radius of 70 miles i can find the company that makes those hydraulik cylinders for Toyota (Wipro), Engcon tiltrotators, Nord Lock, Minitube (they are making all the papertubes for coins), Trangia (camping stoves and more).
Kevin is class, always adds bit of farmer flare to the videos . LOve the forklift, good all round machine that one, so handy almost everyone should own one :-) and with home delivery becoming the norm great excuse if wife complains lol .
the fork wear thing is a rule of thumb, i have had a few inspectors caught out with this as they don't really have the full specs as they should! as a forklift attachment engineer, it is depending on the spec of the forks, if you have a forklift with a fork positioner as an example, you can get low profile forks for low profile pallets and for picking packs of bricks up, this is due to the forks been classed as tines and not forks but they are forks as strange as it sounds (you can see the difference as a tine will have a line of bolts down its face in most cases, forks are a one piece construction where Kaup tines are 2 and welded by robots ) in regards to holes in forks cant drill into them but if they are tines you can also with tines you can legally weld heel plates on the bottom of the tines to get more life out of them but this is only with KAUP forks, you can also get holes in these tines for add ons such as clamps... in my opinion toyota trucks are ok but a little clunky, harder to get auxiliaries fitted as its a whole new valve where on other trucks its valve sandwich which just needs bolted on the end or even turned on and the mast revving :)
Forklift parking brakes.. unless one and only one guy ever drives the forklift, pretty much get forgotten engaged a bunch of times and then they don't do much until they're inspected and re-adjusted. Forkilfts very easily overcome the parking brake. Torquey little buggers. Drove a certain late 90's vintage Nissan propane forklift of similar size to your Totoya for many years, they're impressively dependable machines.
From the leading fork manufacturer in the world. Holes - Holes may be drilled, not burned, with a diameter of up to 25% of blade width and a maximum of 1 in. (25 mm) diameter. The hole is centered and can be positioned between 3 in. (75 mm) to 12 in. (300 mm) from the fork tip. The top and bottom edges of the holes should be chamfered to remove sharp edges.
Really interesting that the left hand (not the parking brake) pedal is a brake, all the ones I've driven that's either a clutch or the inching pedal. Does it have two brake pedals? Was having a chat to my old boss recently about lifting equipment inspections in the UK. Tractors linkages never seem to get inspected, telehandlers and forklifts do, front end loaders seem like a bit of a grey area that just gets overlooked. Last time I had anything to do with it, if they were just lifting things the inspections were every year, if you'd ever put a man cage on then it was 6 months.
@@tomcardale5596 an inching pedal is a brake, also known as a inching brake and also serves the purpose of a clutch. To those not up to par with forklift lingo its a brake, used very similarly to the brake in a car with an automatic transmission.
@@jaydunbar7538 Thank you for that explanation, really handy! The only relevant vehicles I've had experience on are completely manual forklifts, tractors with CVTs (in both of which it's a clutch); or telehandlers with torque converters that have a go pedal and a really wide stop pedal. The latter you end up doing left foot braking when you're trying to raise the boom quick enough to not slam it in to the side of a trailer :D
While driving unloaded turn hard and while in the turn shut off the forklift then when you turn it back on to ignition it will level out thats how I know my lifts SAS is works
Make sure you flush that trans if there is no record of it. I rebuilt 2 of them last week. If you ever have to pull the trans pull it from the top, leave engine in truck. No need to remove the hood either.
Those Toyota 8FD30 are excellent forklifts, the SAS system is very good.. makes it very hard to tip one over sideways unless on some really uneven ground 2000 hours is like new for one of those, the only weak point is the transmission, which especially if used on ramps, tends to crap out at 8-10k hours.. the rest of the truck, if looked after will do 15-20k hours without too many issues
The SAS works really great when going around the corner real fast instead of the tires getting up on one wheel it will skip across the ground it don’t really do good whenever you’re picking up skids that weighs too much though really easy to drive on two wheels though
Where i work there are 5 Toyotas, 1 Nissan, 1 Clark, and 1 Komatsu. And in my opinion the Toyota is the best that I've run, there are 3 of them that are over 10,000 hours and 1 that is over 12,000 hours and they haven't been overhauled just maintained. The Nissan and Clark are comfortable machines, I'd say more so then the Toyota, but the toyota has the best visibility and control functionality.
my forklift is at the 5k hours. we are about to get a new one for my department in a few weeks thank goodness. factory's always put loads of hours on one and most beat the hell out of it if the company is production based like mine.
It has Toyota's SAS stability cylinder on the rear axle, make of roading a adventure....it's a feature for the concrete work, One day you will be trying to get into your shed and wonder why you got stuck on a hump 🤣
The SAS system is more than that, it's a anti roll over system, an anti tip forward system and there are many components that are heavily integrated into it. The system is complicated but extremely reliable.
I’ve driven 5 different branded forklifts for work and Toyota was BY FAR, the superior fork truck. My previous employer had 2 TCM’s, a cat, hyster, Yale, and Clark, none of them could hold a candle to the power, comfort, and ease of use of the Yota. (They were all equally rated too btw.) I could easily lift more than its rated capacity without worrying, not that I did that often. When I had to use the third stage on the Yota I didn’t ever worry about tipping or anything like that, the leveling feature was so nice especially when stacking bins or shuttling bins of Machining coolant down the road to the other plant. 😬😬 P.S. the Yota did the best burnies.
Ive used a couple different forklifts. Definitely got to get one to suit your environment. You can get 4wd version as well What about a telehandler for the next buy
Cant go wrong with a Toyota forklift. I used to work where they had a small fleet of them. No regular drivers, solid rubber tires, rough roads and they were still capable of 25kmh. Also a very sandy environment. The average hours over 8 units in 15 years was nearly 114000. They were regularly serviced but very rarely needed major work. They were replaced with Clarks and these were fragile in comparison with parts wearing out that were never replaced on the Toyotas. They were also driver logged so any damage could be directly attributed so that encouraged a bit more care. If you can keep them dry they last leave them in the weather and it really shows in the mast.
-The weight and height you can lift is massively more on a fork-truck. -If you use the machines a lot cost of operation also starts to become a noticeable benefit... a fork will end up costing less per hour (and far less per kilo moved) to run, while being easier on your body to do for hours at a time (and often quieter too, a big deal if noise is an issue where/when you work). -If your going for a larger 4x4 fork or telescopic handler, it'll tear the ground up a lot less than a skid steer. -Depending on engine/fuel choice forks can be a lot safer to run indoors, meanwhile skid steers for underground use are uncommon and expensive to acquire by comparison. -Having both means your less likely to get stuck in a situation you can't manage, especially if something breaks during time sensitive operations like planting/harvest where stress is high and often outside hands are brought in who might have used one kind of machine but not the other. You can even use one machine to fix the other during the off season, unless your the sort who pretends they are going to unload several hundred kilos of engine from a truck and fit it in the engine bay by hand (or your luck enough to have an overhead rail system).
The 1DZ is a tank of a little diesel. just run good quality fuel and she'll run forever. I've got a unit I regularly service and its getting close to 15,000 hours. Runs like a top.
Mitsubishi isn’t too bad, I ran one of those for years, in a Electrical Supply House. I also ran a Toyota kinda like that one and I don’t know how many Hysters I drove and ran. Yeah we had a hole in one of the forks on our Mitsubishi, for a ball and other things, far as I know it never weakened the fork on it. Yeah I believe our Toyota tow motor/forklift had the little diesel in it too!
My work is one of those places that actually use forklifts. 2000 hours on that one, that's like brand new! We run somewhere north of 150 Toyotas, mostly 8fgcu25's. It's not uncommon for us to have 18,000 plus hours on lifts that we still use daily. One of our higher hour units has over 35000 hours. It's honestly amazing these things handle hours as well as they do. You forgot to mention looking at the mast mounting bolts. Replacing the bolts is not that big of a deal, but if your mast is not secure, there's a real possibility that other pieces are getting bent, and that gets expensive. IMO cylinders are about next on the list of expensive repairs, a leaking cylinder is an expensive fix. 2 biggest care habits to get into - make friends with your blow gun and use air pressure to clean out everything under the hood frequently, dirt is your enemy. Second, don't get into the habit of laying things next to the seat, tape guns, clip boards, etc - what I see way too often is when the hood is tipped, something that was laying next to the seat falls into the engine compartment, if it's running that means you'll be buying a new fan blade at best, and radiator all too frequently. If you want to save tons on tires, buy your tires from a tire store, not a forklift dealer. To lower your tire costs by 30%, take the tires off yourself and bring them to your vendor to have solids pressed off and onto the rims. What happens of you call the forklift repairman for tires, is you end up paying them $130-$150 an hour to drive back and forth to their shop to press off and on tires, eliminate paying for drive / seat time. Toyotas have been durable machines for us, and we rack up the hours quickly.
About 3 years ago we sent our old electric hysters to the auction, not working of course. Because even if you could find the parts they were expensive and long time to get. As for the hole, it isn't allowd. We had holes but had to get all those forks swapped out to get our COR Certification.
Used to work on forklifts. Replaced a regulator once on a vintage lift. No steering wheel, all levers and the back wheels were just castors essentially. Steered like a skid steer. And if you didn’t hold the gear Selector lever in place it would move starting it up.sketchy. Looked like bicycle chains on the mast
Toyota is a good forklift seen them rusted to hell used in fish processing plants we used to have here. They still run like a champ, hydraulic fittings rotten but they are still holding. Out on the West Coast salt water and salt air takes its toll on forklifts. Hyster is a good brand I know the older stuff was really good.
Can't remember where but some inspector told me if the knee of the fork is worn down bij 10% the load capacity decreases bij 20%. 20% worn down, 40% less capacity (legally) of course you can lift more but it's not really recommended. Not totally sure about this so correct me if I'm wrong. And its a law in Europe btw, not Canada. We have 2 old Nissan's 1.5 and a 4 ton, 14.000 and 500 hours.
@@daveclark4028 and that's how it should be. Around here they only look at the hydraulics, if the forks don't lower with a load after a set amount of time they pass. F stupid but cheaper and while working at a farm, common sense is a valuable thing.
When my work got a new Toyota fork, probably about 2011, the rep told us that 1hr operation is roughly equivalent to 100km for a road vehicle. I guess it kind of makes sense. So, 2,000hrs roughly equals 200,000km... maybe.
If your thinking about the engine wear only, and comparing to highway use vehicle, it works.... but for other running gear its not remotely close, with the forklift dry steering and stop/starting with heavy loads dozens of times an hour, placing massively higher demands on transmission, brakes and linkages than if it was rolling down a road at a fairly constant speed.
I used to drive a Toyota that was similar sized, had a straight 6 cylinder diesel, sounded lovely. Was a bitch to start when cold though. 🤜🤛🤜🤛👍🇬🇧🇨🇦🇬🇧🇨🇦
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Hey your buddy needs a freelift cylinder rebuild kit his secondary cylinders are lifting out of sequence because there is too much drag on the gland seals which is why the rod has seal material smearing onto it. The seals in the gland at the end of the cylinder tube get rust between the seal and gland which rust-jacks the seals against the rod I worked on these exact lifts in the field for four years for a Toyota dealer in the Pittsburgh PA and still service the same area. If you have any questions just reach out been watching your videos for years
Those chain need some grease ive never seen them that dry.
Toyora tech here. That vintage of toyota you check trans fluid with engine off.
Damn 2011 is considered "vintage" 🤣🤣 what year do we live in again?
Vintage? It’s the same transmission they put in the new lifts too. The transmission only changes if you get a higher capacity truck. Toyota tech too!
@@NittoNba44 Nah, about 25-30 years is when us forklift engineers consider them vintage
@@NittoNba44 He didn't say it was "vintage". He said "THAT vintage of Toyota", in others words, "those years of Toyota". Look up the definition guys.
@@NittoNba44 He means that model. 8 series Toyota transmission are checked with the engine off
As a forklift mechanic I approve this video lol ... Toyota’s are pretty good machines. I work on almost all brands and I actually repair these the least if that tells you anything. Just make sure you stay on top of your greasing and she’ll last a while
Not a mechanic, but I owned a fleet of Toyota lifts. Bought them new, never a serious problem of any kind. Kept them properly maintained and were still going strong when we sold the business.
p.s. Not diesel, LP.
@@Watchyn_Yarwood yeah Toyota has the same quality in their forklifts as they do their cars and trucks. If I ever needed to own one I’d buy a Toyota hands down lol
As a forklift mechanic for 20 years, and same as you, work on all brands I have to say I have a good amount of respect for them - the trucks I look after in the field with the highest hours on them are nearly exclusively Toyota's
We just bought an LP Toyota to handle fuel drums - how often would you say to lube if we are only running it 1-10 hours a month?
Hey Rich! Great video. You touched on a lot of points most people overlook. I'd like to add a few footnotes:
I worked on all kinds of forklifts for many years and Toyotas were the best in every measurable way: reliable, easy to work on and get parts for, cheap to run, hold value extremely well, never once did I ever shake my head at how they were designed or dealing with parts availability, which says a lot.
As you said annual lift inspections aren't required for agriculture, so any agricultural use will hurt resale value (sorry Kevin!)
If you want attachments, make SURE they're accounted for on the capacity plate - as the weight and the increased distance it puts the load from the axle centre (load centre) will reduce your lift capacity (sometimes drastically!) If you're adding something, better figure this out if you don't want to tip over.
3-stage masts are the most desirable - if you don't plan on ever lifting too high, a two-stage might be a deal. Quad masts are expensive to fix, so steer clear unless you need to lift that high. Beware - I've seen some people cut masts off one truck and put them on another to resell - if the welds on the axle pivot don't look factory or there's fresh paint there, it may be a cut-and-shut.
Cascade makes a nice kit for checking forks - comes in a box with the gauge and a set of instructions. Check it out. Most chain manufacturers make a gauge of their own but they're all the same - use it properly! Also check the section that sits on the chainwheel as that's where the most wear happens. Stretch is important but also turned pins! All the swage marks on the pins need to line up with each other - if one is turned it has broken loose from the leaf and is in danger of walking out (this usually happens due to rusting or overloading and is a fail).
You mentioned the swing lock cylinder - good eye! There's a plastic plug on it you can pry off and check if an indicator pin has moved, indicating the charge inside has gone out. They are normally closed, electrically unlocked so if it's articulating when the truck is on, and you've checked the pin, you're fine! If there's an electrical problem it usually shows up on the dash. They're not bad to figure out - get the manual set from the dealer, they're extremely well written.
I'm sure there's a ton more to mention - but Kevin has the most desirable model of the most desirable mfr - Toyota. From a completely unbiased opinion (I no longer work in the industry), it'll be a great ownership experience!
Bonus tip: Lift the forks up and lean the mast back, place hardwood blocks under the mast heels and tilt forward - it'll lift the body up several inches so you can block behind the front wheels for servicing underneath or changing tires. Faster and easier than jacking it up!
Excellent summarization, you covered everything needed.I worked on forklifts for 17yrs after 5yrs on h/d trucks. Worked for a Cat forklift dealer 13yrs and a Yale dealer 4yrs. I agree about Toyotas, they get A's in all aspects, fit & finish, reliability, serviceability, quality materials, logical engineering.
Yale is a strong second place.
Swing lock is easy to test. With the truck on jack it up from the year and put a pry bar under one of the tires and articulate one of the wheels up. Turn the truck off and lower it down and you'll notice it's not completely level. Turn the truck on and it should automatically articulate down back to level. That's how you test and make sure that system works.
Test the stability system just jack up one of the steering tire (not extremely high like 2-3“) with the key on. Then turn off the key and lower the jack and the tire should be up in the air until you turn back on the key and the forklift will suddenly go back down. Parking brake is required for this.
I love those Toyota forklifts .
I drove one for 7 years in a indoor - outdoor environment very tough and reliable .
It was a propane gas model.
For me the process was:
Does it work: No
Age: 60+ years
Big wheel: yes
In good condition/well maintained: Hell no
Price: $500
Parts readily available: not really
So I bought it. After replacing all the hydraulic lines, making the brakes work, and redoing some of the wiring, it's been great. The only major repairs it's needed in 4 years are an oil pump after that exploded, and a hydraulic pump after it blew the shaft seal and dumped all the hydraulic fluid into the engine. I also had to replace the water pump recently. Well worth it. It just sucks that it's so old that it doesn't have power steering, so it is really hard to drive, even on dirt. But it's dead simple and easy to fix anything, which is what I wanted.
Damn that "Hell no" made me laugh for 2 minutes, my 2 cracked ribs do not thank you !
Just out of curiosity, how much did the repairs amount to ? Have you been able to rebuild anything yourself or had to buy new parts ?
@@crezychameau The oil pump plus the engine bearings it took out was around $200. It was about $250 to get the hydraulic pump rebuilt, and the water pump was $80. Everything in the thing was designed to be easily serviceable so yes I can do pretty much everything myself.
@@Choochinc Wow that's really nice, not too expensive and super cool to be able to do this yourself !
Everything nowadays isn't built like it used to.
I have basically the same thing with Japanese stickers. The stering box recently went out so I'm waiting on the new one rebuilt in Taiwan.
PEI you can have a hole in your fork for say moving trailers but you can't torch the hole it has to be a cold cut hole like waterjet or something
I have been working with TMHU for years. I currently manage a Toyota parts department. That is the a great lift and TOYOTA has the highest resale value. You can verify that per Ritchie bros auctions.
Gaday ...TMHA down under
My absolute favorite forklift was a (probably) 20 year old Linde with the hydrostatic transmission. Had a forward pedal and a reverse pedal (no shifting). 3 tier boom, side shift. It only had a parking brake, the motion system was the braking system so no regular brake pedal, just take you foot off the direction pedal and it begins to stop. I hated it at first. But once I got used to it it was my favorite.
The production forklifts at my work are Lindes, I don't like how they don't creep forwards when you let off the brake and immediately slow down when you left off the gas. The maintenance lifts that I drive are old Doosans, they're decent. I don't drive lift all day every day so that might make a difference.
I put 8500 hours on a similar sized cat machine, it has a lot more slop in the control linkages than yours. Side shift is a mandatory feature far as I'm concerned, great choice.
One thing I miss the most about the last company I worked for was both forklifts had side shift. My current work doesn't and it's bitten me in the ass so many times. Having to do a million point turn with something heavy way up high on the forks sucks, being able to side shift it over would be so much nicer.
We have a forklift at work and it has the solid tires on it. We were getting stuck in the snow everywhere in the garden so we got a set of chains. Night and day difference!
If you're going to be using a forklift for anything where safety inspections are happening, for like a personal business where the forklift gets moved around to job sites, don't drill holes in your forks. Use an adapter and swing it onto the fork mast that has a tow eye. or make an adapter that can be chained to the forks. You definitely don't want to have to replace forks unless you absolutely have to.
As a forklift tech for Raymond who's owned by toyota. Toyota makes a good lift truck. Good call on your chains. Free lift chains get used 2x as much as main lift chains. Proper lubrication will give them a long life. You got A good truck
Great info. Just want to add something to keep in mind. If you want a lift that will raise a 6000 pound load, you will need a 8000 pound lift capacity fork lift. If you have a lift that says it can raise 6000 pounds, you have to subtract the carriage and fork weight from the lift capacity.
been a forklift tech in your area for over 30yrs. Toyota forklifts are the best up tp 10,000lb capacity.The Cadillac. they go the most hrs for the least amount of repair. That forklift there is valued at around 15k. and yes u can drill a hole in the fork. the manufacture has specs on how to do so on there website.
These Toyota forklifts are the best LPG and diesel forklifts out there in my opinion, these are truly magnificent and robust machines. They run smoothly, can take a beating, and are surprisingly comfortable considering their utilitarian mission. We got like 12 of them at my job and they just keep on running and running. I love running them. Great video.
At my work the forklifts get run 18 to 20 hrs a day 365
The normally about 6500 hrs a year
Airports never stop, even with covid there is still work
We only have Toyota forklifts in our fleet. We still have 6FGCU25 models that still run like champs with close to 30,000 hours. They run 24/5 nonstop. Routine maintenance makes these lifts last a lifetime damn near.
I don't need a forklift.....now I want one
You can tow with them
You buy the forklift I'll use it. Lol
Still got my forklift license... chicks dig it. Love the machinery vids and love this channel. First video I ever seen was the Deutz tractor (air cooled diesel episode and why you shouldn’t be feared of them ) and I have been hooked ever since. Keep these up and your buddy buying equipment along with the other channel cause this shit is great. Thanks from Missoura
Never got a license, drove them 5 days a week for years in a factory.
Always nice seeing a truck we built years ago in good shape. Also the transmissions should be checked with the engine off, fill it, put the dipstick in and run for a minute and check it again. Repeat that until the dipstick reads full. Inside of the mast needs greased every once in a while too. Side rollers and bearing aren’t fun to change. The new trucks are nice too. I’d recommend coming to tour the plant when the borders open up. Plant 1 is huge and the rotunda is nice as well. Great place to work at honestly.
We have several of the 4k lift trucks at work. Most are upwards of 5,000 hours. Those things are tanks!
5 years or older?
My workplace has a Nissan forklift that just hit 35 years old this year! Still going strong!
Can’t beat an old Nissan lift
My friend got an old cat forklift that’s in the 40 year old range
I've often thought it would be interesting to see a total engine RPM counter along with the hours.
Give you an idea of if it's spent loads of time idling (which can be worse than being used for some engines), if it's been thrashed or whatever.
I’ve also thought that total engine revolutions or total fuel use would be a better way to judge a vehicle that hours or kilometres.
@@Jaxon-iu6vb Total fuel used would also be a good measure, you're right.
That is coming with the more modern vehicles with telematics, who knows whether that sort of information will be available to second users or be used to swing the price at all.
After being a forklift operator for 10 years, Toyota has been my favorite manufacturer
Our warehouses all have Hyster and Toyota for the inside. But the Hysters are a huge to carry containers. They’re the size of his combine lol
Any relation to Hennessey Performance?
This made me realize how bad of shape some of the lifts i have ran where in but they also got ran all day every day of the year
My neighbour has had a Toyota forklift with years, theyre indestructible. His has the old 3.0d engine in it.
We have 3 hyster electric forklifts we just use em inside tho and have held up great for us. Also Yale and Hyster are the same basically.
Hyster is a great name. I'm glad to hear their electric forklifts have served y'all well. They have an awesome line of LPG forklifts too, the H60FT that's bulletproof. I used to use their electric walkie pallet jacks when I worked in grocery retail, they never needed anything but water. Extremely reliable.
Pro safety tip from a forklift mechanic when working on a Toyota with the SAS system and its important.
DO NOT start the engine if you've got the machine jacked over at a sideways angle, if you do the SAS ram on the steer axle will kick in to try level the truck up potentially throwing the machine off the jack/blocks.
On the electrics its even worse as they will do the same thing but as soon as you turn the ignition on.
Trust me - I've been there 😂
The ones at my company are yales, God damn do those things get beat on. My friend drives one, burnouts all day, slamming from forwards to reverse, startup cold with the pedal held to the floor, clutch dumps, etc lol
I drive one of these every day I love ek
10:56 "Billy, get your god-damn foot off that!" "It's cool man-BOOOOM!!!"
Have these in aluminium foundry i work at and they run 24/7 only break they get is thru winter when the maintnence is going on and foundry Is shut 🙂
Got Hyster EX70s, EX80s and EX120s, all electric, with fingertip switches and power fork spreaders, basically completely tricked out trucks. They run damn near 24/7/365 at our plant and have been just drop dead reliable. Some trucks have over 25000 working hours on em and they just keep on going.
We have many of these toyota forklift at work, various capacities 2-5 tons, lpg engine. Parking brake gets used quite a lot.
Split rings scare the crap out of me even with a tire cage... but a flying ring killed my uncle in '68 and he was across the shop working on something else.
A fellers sure got a nice hat on there, Rich!
Hooked my peepers on it. Mmhmm. Okay.
The company that I worked for before I retired has 2 Toyota 5000 lb forklifts. They are a metal spinning shop, so all the raw material they use comes in sheet form. All sizes from 24" wide to 96" wide and up to 144" long. The tooling for the lathes is up to 96" in diameter. The finished products are up to 96" in diameter. They use 1 forklift for receiving and material handling, moving material to shears, punch presses and lathes, the other for moving tooling and shipping. We always had the machines serviced regularly.
These 2 forklifts are still going strong after 20 years of use. There is still lots of life left in them. They are a dependable machine capable of doing everything they were designed for and a whole lot that they never dreamed of when designing them.
could always get a extra fork to drill into if your worried about effecting the strength of the fork. it is like a 1 minute job. i use to do it all the time when i worked in a warehouse and our main forklift broke and i would have to use the good old hyster with the monotrol. i missed that hyster it was a good machine even tho it was unsafe. the forks were the park brake for it after i put them on lol.
As a forklift technician for Caterpillar Forklift repair company this is good information
Watch the wiring to the alternator going overtop of the valve cover. We have multiple Toyota 8FDU25’s that I work on, all above 20,000 hours. Very easy to work on besides wiring, it can get to be a mess very quickly.
I work on Hyster forklifts every day. We have them ranging in years from 1989 all the way up until 2018 and they are good quality. We have a handful of Toyotas as well and they are a good little machine also
I used to run Hyster H100XL they were late 80s early 90 machines had Perkins power. The lifts of lumber we used to pick with them. I had quite a few years of forklift experience before I started at the building supply. I would push the 100XLs to the max I knew how to work a forklift. The other guys would say you can't lift that oh ya watch me their eye balls wide open.
I worked in a factory for a little while as a welding contractor and there wasn’t a single forklift in that place with working brakes of any kind. You slam on them to stop and almost nothing would happen. The higher ups wondered why everything got ran into there
I use an old Yale propane on a farm. Has over 8500 hours, and no brakes. Stopping by slamming into things, or putting it in neutral and slowly using the parking brake
Just about every old loader I've ran is the same way lol
Got the same at my job and man we beat the piss out of it and it never skips a beat
I scored a 1986 Yale 5000# capacity forklift from work for $750 it was made in Japan with a Mazda engine, it even has side shift and hydraulic fork spacers.
We call those grey market trucks.
Good machines! I'm a toyota lift mechanic.
Fork positioner install would make a fun video!!
Toyota's are pretty damn good forklifts. As a forklift mechanic I've seem them take a pretty good beating.
Have several 7fdf15's at an apple farm that have had a horrendous, relentless life now at 25k hrs still on original engines and transmissions.
Also got an electric fbm20 in London on 30k hrs.
They have their faults, and some silly design on some models but they are good for the long haul.
What are your thoughts on hangcha forklifts?
Kevin's back!
Good advice for these forklifts is that the wire harness to the dynamo is rubbing in the protection harness so be advised to upgrade the wires to thicker ones! @debossgarage
so for play in the levers, Linde H30 2005 about 15000h no play at all, clark smal one 1993 about inch and half, 20 000h, other litle older linde, side shift lever feel of forklift at about 30 000h, but it has factori water pump on deutz air cold engine. and brand new bent forks in first week of use.
We've got 2 old Komatsu forklifts on our sawmill, they're pieces of junk because there so old and abused but they don't quit.
They've got the Nissan H40 lpg engine in them, and they give me issues with the ignition on the regular but otherwise run pretty well.
Enjoy your farm friend! Great guy on camera get him on more plz
One thing that caugt my mind... I got to live in a pretty crazy area of Sweden, because into a radius of 70 miles i can find the company that makes those hydraulik cylinders for Toyota (Wipro), Engcon tiltrotators, Nord Lock, Minitube (they are making all the papertubes for coins), Trangia (camping stoves and more).
Kevin is class, always adds bit of farmer flare to the videos .
LOve the forklift, good all round machine that one, so handy almost everyone should own one :-) and with home delivery becoming the norm great excuse if wife complains lol .
the fork wear thing is a rule of thumb, i have had a few inspectors caught out with this as they don't really have the full specs as they should! as a forklift attachment engineer, it is depending on the spec of the forks, if you have a forklift with a fork positioner as an example, you can get low profile forks for low profile pallets and for picking packs of bricks up, this is due to the forks been classed as tines and not forks but they are forks as strange as it sounds (you can see the difference as a tine will have a line of bolts down its face in most cases, forks are a one piece construction where Kaup tines are 2 and welded by robots ) in regards to holes in forks cant drill into them but if they are tines you can also with tines you can legally weld heel plates on the bottom of the tines to get more life out of them but this is only with KAUP forks, you can also get holes in these tines for add ons such as clamps... in my opinion toyota trucks are ok but a little clunky, harder to get auxiliaries fitted as its a whole new valve where on other trucks its valve sandwich which just needs bolted on the end or even turned on and the mast revving :)
Forklift parking brakes.. unless one and only one guy ever drives the forklift, pretty much get forgotten engaged a bunch of times and then they don't do much until they're inspected and re-adjusted. Forkilfts very easily overcome the parking brake. Torquey little buggers.
Drove a certain late 90's vintage Nissan propane forklift of similar size to your Totoya for many years, they're impressively dependable machines.
From the leading fork manufacturer in the world.
Holes - Holes may be drilled, not burned, with a diameter of up to 25% of blade width and a maximum of 1 in. (25 mm) diameter. The hole is centered and can be positioned between 3 in. (75 mm) to 12 in. (300 mm) from the fork
tip. The top and bottom edges of the holes should be chamfered to remove sharp edges.
Really interesting that the left hand (not the parking brake) pedal is a brake, all the ones I've driven that's either a clutch or the inching pedal. Does it have two brake pedals?
Was having a chat to my old boss recently about lifting equipment inspections in the UK. Tractors linkages never seem to get inspected, telehandlers and forklifts do, front end loaders seem like a bit of a grey area that just gets overlooked. Last time I had anything to do with it, if they were just lifting things the inspections were every year, if you'd ever put a man cage on then it was 6 months.
The left pedal is an inching pedal.
@@daveclark4028 well that's what I was wondering but not what Rich said!
@@tomcardale5596 an inching pedal is a brake, also known as a inching brake and also serves the purpose of a clutch. To those not up to par with forklift lingo its a brake, used very similarly to the brake in a car with an automatic transmission.
@@jaydunbar7538 Thank you for that explanation, really handy!
The only relevant vehicles I've had experience on are completely manual forklifts, tractors with CVTs (in both of which it's a clutch); or telehandlers with torque converters that have a go pedal and a really wide stop pedal. The latter you end up doing left foot braking when you're trying to raise the boom quick enough to not slam it in to the side of a trailer :D
While driving unloaded turn hard and while in the turn shut off the forklift then when you turn it back on to ignition it will level out thats how I know my lifts SAS is works
Make sure you flush that trans if there is no record of it. I rebuilt 2 of them last week. If you ever have to pull the trans pull it from the top, leave engine in truck. No need to remove the hood either.
Those Toyota 8FD30 are excellent forklifts, the SAS system is very good.. makes it very hard to tip one over sideways unless on some really uneven ground
2000 hours is like new for one of those, the only weak point is the transmission, which especially if used on ramps, tends to crap out at 8-10k hours.. the rest of the truck, if looked after will do 15-20k hours without too many issues
The SAS works really great when going around the corner real fast instead of the tires getting up on one wheel it will skip across the ground it don’t really do good whenever you’re picking up skids that weighs too much though really easy to drive on two wheels though
Also check the bearings in the mast.
Simple way to test the SAS swing lock cylinder is to jack up the rear end via counter weight and the rear axle should not pivot with key off
Hyster-yale seems to work well. Nissan has some cool older models, Mitsubishi-cats tend to stall a lot, but are fairly nice to run.
Where i work there are 5 Toyotas, 1 Nissan, 1 Clark, and 1 Komatsu. And in my opinion the Toyota is the best that I've run, there are 3 of them that are over 10,000 hours and 1 that is over 12,000 hours and they haven't been overhauled just maintained. The Nissan and Clark are comfortable machines, I'd say more so then the Toyota, but the toyota has the best visibility and control functionality.
my forklift is at the 5k hours. we are about to get a new one for my department in a few weeks thank goodness. factory's always put loads of hours on one and most beat the hell out of it if the company is production based like mine.
Replace your side shift hoses ,face shot of hydraulic oil yesterday, he had on glasses lucky
It has Toyota's SAS stability cylinder on the rear axle, make of roading a adventure....it's a feature for the concrete work,
One day you will be trying to get into your shed and wonder why you got stuck on a hump 🤣
The SAS system is more than that, it's a anti roll over system, an anti tip forward system and there are many components that are heavily integrated into it.
The system is complicated but extremely reliable.
These are all U-Haul runs love them.. remember the day it came off the truck
I’ve driven 5 different branded forklifts for work and Toyota was BY FAR, the superior fork truck.
My previous employer had 2 TCM’s, a cat, hyster, Yale, and Clark, none of them could hold a candle to the power, comfort, and ease of use of the Yota. (They were all equally rated too btw.)
I could easily lift more than its rated capacity without worrying, not that I did that often. When I had to use the third stage on the Yota I didn’t ever worry about tipping or anything like that, the leveling feature was so nice especially when stacking bins or shuttling bins of Machining coolant down the road to the other plant. 😬😬
P.S. the Yota did the best burnies.
The Toyotas are nice machines.
Ive used a couple different forklifts. Definitely got to get one to suit your environment. You can get 4wd version as well
What about a telehandler for the next buy
Cant go wrong with a Toyota forklift. I used to work where they had a small fleet of them. No regular drivers, solid rubber tires, rough roads and they were still capable of 25kmh. Also a very sandy environment. The average hours over 8 units in 15 years was nearly 114000. They were regularly serviced but very rarely needed major work. They were replaced with Clarks and these were fragile in comparison with parts wearing out that were never replaced on the Toyotas. They were also driver logged so any damage could be directly attributed so that encouraged a bit more care. If you can keep them dry they last leave them in the weather and it really shows in the mast.
Huh fork lift on a farm, sorta a new one for me. What would be the benefit of a fork lift over a skid steer and a good set of forks?
Lifting capacity. Safety if you get on and off a lot, especially with the load up in the air
-The weight and height you can lift is massively more on a fork-truck.
-If you use the machines a lot cost of operation also starts to become a noticeable benefit... a fork will end up costing less per hour (and far less per kilo moved) to run, while being easier on your body to do for hours at a time (and often quieter too, a big deal if noise is an issue where/when you work).
-If your going for a larger 4x4 fork or telescopic handler, it'll tear the ground up a lot less than a skid steer.
-Depending on engine/fuel choice forks can be a lot safer to run indoors, meanwhile skid steers for underground use are uncommon and expensive to acquire by comparison.
-Having both means your less likely to get stuck in a situation you can't manage, especially if something breaks during time sensitive operations like planting/harvest where stress is high and often outside hands are brought in who might have used one kind of machine but not the other. You can even use one machine to fix the other during the off season, unless your the sort who pretends they are going to unload several hundred kilos of engine from a truck and fit it in the engine bay by hand (or your luck enough to have an overhead rail system).
All kinds of farms have forklifts... for years
That engine out of a fork lift like that. Were it's a little 4 cylinder diesel would be a good fit for a Chevy or geo tracker.
The 1DZ is a tank of a little diesel. just run good quality fuel and she'll run forever. I've got a unit I regularly service and its getting close to 15,000 hours. Runs like a top.
Mitsubishi isn’t too bad, I ran one of those for years, in a Electrical Supply House. I also ran a Toyota kinda like that one and I don’t know how many Hysters I drove and ran. Yeah we had a hole in one of the forks on our Mitsubishi, for a ball and other things, far as I know it never weakened the fork on it. Yeah I believe our Toyota tow motor/forklift had the little diesel in it too!
My work is one of those places that actually use forklifts. 2000 hours on that one, that's like brand new! We run somewhere north of 150 Toyotas, mostly 8fgcu25's. It's not uncommon for us to have 18,000 plus hours on lifts that we still use daily. One of our higher hour units has over 35000 hours. It's honestly amazing these things handle hours as well as they do. You forgot to mention looking at the mast mounting bolts. Replacing the bolts is not that big of a deal, but if your mast is not secure, there's a real possibility that other pieces are getting bent, and that gets expensive. IMO cylinders are about next on the list of expensive repairs, a leaking cylinder is an expensive fix. 2 biggest care habits to get into - make friends with your blow gun and use air pressure to clean out everything under the hood frequently, dirt is your enemy. Second, don't get into the habit of laying things next to the seat, tape guns, clip boards, etc - what I see way too often is when the hood is tipped, something that was laying next to the seat falls into the engine compartment, if it's running that means you'll be buying a new fan blade at best, and radiator all too frequently. If you want to save tons on tires, buy your tires from a tire store, not a forklift dealer. To lower your tire costs by 30%, take the tires off yourself and bring them to your vendor to have solids pressed off and onto the rims. What happens of you call the forklift repairman for tires, is you end up paying them $130-$150 an hour to drive back and forth to their shop to press off and on tires, eliminate paying for drive / seat time. Toyotas have been durable machines for us, and we rack up the hours quickly.
Working as an FLT engineer for this great company no other FLT come close ...
You need a Linde they have great used Trucks!
Don't forget to check your fuel lines, tank, or cylinder!
You can actually make it run on 3 wheels using the SAS feature 😁
About 3 years ago we sent our old electric hysters to the auction, not working of course. Because even if you could find the parts they were expensive and long time to get. As for the hole, it isn't allowd. We had holes but had to get all those forks swapped out to get our COR Certification.
Always look forward to your videos. Checking in from Elberta, Alabama, 🇺🇸.
Used to work on forklifts. Replaced a regulator once on a vintage lift. No steering wheel, all levers and the back wheels were just castors essentially. Steered like a skid steer. And if you didn’t hold the gear Selector lever in place it would move starting it up.sketchy. Looked like bicycle chains on the mast
The heel of the fork is offically allowed to wear 10 %.
i wonder if that engine or a similar toyota diesel one would fit in a tacoma
Not enough power, the 1DZ's are a specific industrial engine and are only good for about 2500rpm. Only about 50hp and 150-160 ftib torque.
thanks, you prolly guessed i heard toyota diesel and thought backyard tacoma to hilux conversion
Toyota is a good forklift seen them rusted to hell used in fish processing plants we used to have here. They still run like a champ, hydraulic fittings rotten but they are still holding. Out on the West Coast salt water and salt air takes its toll on forklifts. Hyster is a good brand I know the older stuff was really good.
Never knew what that button on the tilt lever did!
Make sure your lower hooks are tight on the carriage every so often. 24mm
Awesome guys. And I’m tryin for build one in eight scale!!
And we need terrorgater (sp?) vids 😆
Coming soon!
Can't remember where but some inspector told me if the knee of the fork is worn down bij 10% the load capacity decreases bij 20%. 20% worn down, 40% less capacity (legally) of course you can lift more but it's not really recommended. Not totally sure about this so correct me if I'm wrong. And its a law in Europe btw, not Canada. We have 2 old Nissan's 1.5 and a 4 ton, 14.000 and 500 hours.
Forks are to be scrapped at 10% heel wear. So a drop in lifting capacity is irrelevant.
@@daveclark4028 and that's how it should be. Around here they only look at the hydraulics, if the forks don't lower with a load after a set amount of time they pass. F stupid but cheaper and while working at a farm, common sense is a valuable thing.
When my work got a new Toyota fork, probably about 2011, the rep told us that 1hr operation is roughly equivalent to 100km for a road vehicle. I guess it kind of makes sense. So, 2,000hrs roughly equals 200,000km... maybe.
If your thinking about the engine wear only, and comparing to highway use vehicle, it works.... but for other running gear its not remotely close, with the forklift dry steering and stop/starting with heavy loads dozens of times an hour, placing massively higher demands on transmission, brakes and linkages than if it was rolling down a road at a fairly constant speed.
Toyota makes a solid forklift personally
Check for blowby on a diesel motor also
The clip got cut off, but we made a video on "What to look for when buying a used Diesel" and all of that applies
I used to drive a Toyota that was similar sized, had a straight 6 cylinder diesel, sounded lovely. Was a bitch to start when cold though. 🤜🤛🤜🤛👍🇬🇧🇨🇦🇬🇧🇨🇦