3-76 OM 803 us – Edition 3.7 * * 803b340.fm
Operation
Specific safety instructions
• Driving in pins with a plastic hammer can cause them to splinter, which can cause
serious injury.
☞Always wear goggles, a hard hat, protective gloves, safety shoes and other suitable
protective clothing.
• Do not stand behind the bucket when removing pins.
☞Do not place your foot underneath the bucket.
• Pay special attention to your fingers when removing and reinserting pins.
• Never insert fingers in the bores of the pins as you align them.
Injury hazard during modification work!
Can cause serious injury or death.
• Avoid accidents and injury by following the information below:
• Stop the engine
• Raise the lock lever
• Remove the starting key
• Re-equip attachments only with suitable tools
• Do not align components with your fingers or your hands but use suita-
ble tools – crushing hazard!
• After you have re-equipped an attachment, or before starting work, ensure
that the attachment is safely locked in the stick and the joint rod.
Removing a bucket
• Lower the bucket to level ground with the flat side facing downward
• Stop the engine
• Raise the lock lever
• Remove the starting key
• Remove linch pins A
• First remove pin B, and then pin C. Carefully expel pins that are stuck with a hammer
and a brass punch
If pin C is stuck:
• Start the engine
• Slighty raise and lower the boom to take the load off the pin
• Stop the engine
• Raise the lock lever
• Remove the starting key
Place the bucket only with minimum pressure on the ground as you remove
the pins. The higher the pressure on the ground, the higher the resistance and
the more difficult it is to remove the pins.
Fig. 166: Removing a bucket
B
A
C
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