Hours on a RTV 900

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milkman

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I was in Bardstown Ky. yesterday, saw an RTV with 6042 hrs. in the shop.
The company had the tires foam filled long ago to eliminate flats, they
run this machine 24hrs. all three shifts. They were replacing the
U-joints in the rear axles and the only other mechanical failure it has
had was a broken shifter fork. Must be one tough sucker.

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That's a LOT of hours. I was figuring the D902 engine would require an overhaul before 4000 hours but it sounds like there RTV is still going strong.</p>

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milkman, that is an unbelievable number of hours on that machine!</p>


I'm ashamed to tell ya that I just passed 50 hrs on my 2005 machine. I really need to get out more often, I know.</p>
 
fastmvr, </p>


What douse your RTV for...... </p>


Time for your first service !!! </p>


<span style="font-size: medium;"><font color="#ff0000"> <font face="JohnHancock">~~~~~~ Two Guns ~~~~~~</font></font></span></p>
 
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Hey fastmvr - your avatar looks like a LIberator. What's the connection? </p>
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You bet it is, doggman. My favorite uncle flew as a nose gunner out of England on board the "Rebel Gal" a few years back.</p>


Thanks for noticing!</p>


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TWO GUNS, I cut my own wood on the property here (10 acres, heavily wooded) and heat the place with a wood stove. The RTV sure makes it lots easier. And yes, if I hadn't jumped the gun and done the 50-hour service myself at around 35 hours, you'd be right. I reasoned that my very slow rate of usage maybe called for doing that service early. I have had absolutely NO problem with mine and the tips I pick up here are really valuable.</p>
 
Fastmvr,</p>


One thing about it, one cannot service a piece of equipment to early, and cannot over do it !!! Happy to hear your machine is trouble free. </p>


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Fastmvr, I found her picture on the web.. My girlfriend's dad, who just passed away at 89, was the bombardier on Dumbo which ditched in the Pacific after being hit and engine fires.No lives lost. At 24 he was the "old man" on the crew and held everybody's paychecks so they wouldn't lose their money gambling. The pilot was 18 and the co-pilot 20. We just found a VCR tape of home movies shot from the plane - amazing stuff. Thanks for honoring your uncle with the photo. </p>
 
The next visit out there, I want to talk to the mechanic again about the machine, I would like to know some of the tricks he uses to replace the u-joints and how expensive it is, how long it takes, etc. I hadn't seen him in several years so we were busy catching up as that is the guy I bought my BCS from. He told me that the day before, they sold a used 900 w/320 hrs. for $7500 that also had a cab, I would have definitely been all over that, day late again.</p>


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