Bobcat MT85 Undercarriage Rebuild, Owners MUST Watch

[@keithhurd2622]

Thumbs up for an informative video. Used your information when I went shopping for my unit. Keepup the great content.

[@nickenslandscapingexcavating]

Thanks Keith! Glad it helped

[@chazramirez4250]

They make an aftermarket pin now that is greasable from the end where the old bolt normally would be, It's welded and now has a grease fitting threaded in. They run about sixty dollars a piece.

[@nickenslandscapingexcavating]

No way???? That is great! Where can I get this?

[@chazmcknight6708]

eBay has them 60 each

[@siriustraveler7083]

Maintenance is gold

[@nickenslandscapingexcavating]

Yes it is 👍🏼

[@pepesdad1]

Informative video!!! Sorry for the ankle injury--not easy to get over quickly. With my broken ankle, I had to get surgery resulting in 12 titanium screws and a 6" plate to put my broken ankle back together. Prayers for a speedy recovery!

[@nickenslandscapingexcavating]

Thank you! Yikes, that sounds painful! I hope you made a full recovery

[@logansimpson5980]

Great video

[@nickenslandscapingexcavating]

Thanks man!

[@srguns8317]

Great video! Thank you! Got an old MT52 and getting ready to do bushings and seals. Is there a resource for the roller tolerances that you know of? Thx

[@nickenslandscapingexcavating]

Thank you! Thats awesome, hopefully yours are in better shape than mine were. I do not know the tolerance but I’m sure your bobcat dealer can provide that info. My dealer is super helpful

[@jrac863]

How hard would it be to retrofit the mt100 rollers on the mt85?

[@nickenslandscapingexcavating]

They make a conversation kit now but heard it was like $8,000

[@KenMrKLC]

What! No explanation on how you decided to smash up your ankle?

[@blessingslawn]

I think he broke it playing hockey

[@KenMrKLC]

@@blessingslawn that was my guess too but didn’t know for sure

[@nickenslandscapingexcavating]

I’ll cover that in the next video or two 👍🏼👍🏼

[@treadlightlyservicesllc.1930]

You're going to hate this but it's the truth, Bobcat now makes a upgraded greaseless design for this it's a little bit more money but you'll never have to use a grease gun on the undercarriage again

[@nickenslandscapingexcavating]

I know… apparently it came out right after this… I heard it was $8,000

[@chrisheatherly8187]

How much do you think you saved doing it yourself compared to a shop ?

[@nickenslandscapingexcavating]

Not much. My guys make to much money lol. We got it done in 6 hours with one guy most of the time. Had a hand for a couple things but mostly just 1 guy.

[@chrisheatherly8187]

@@nickenslandscapingexcavating you sound like me … haha

[@jrac863]

We own 3 of the mt85s in our rental business and have to rebuild the undercarriage on 2 of them. The engineers that designed this machine should be fired.Every time our machine comes back it has to be greased and most of the time the zerks are so beat up from stone that they have to be replaced.Its a piss poor excuse of a machine thats why we are getting ready to swap everything over to the ditch witch sk800.

[@nickenslandscapingexcavating]

Yeah it is literally the main driving factor that makes a lot of people switch brands. They know it because the MT100’s are all sealed. Someone told me you still grease the idlers on the ditch witch. It’s just the rollers that are greaseless on those

[@mrmarty1403]

It's definitely a pain in the ass. We can't get a Grease gun on the front idler so I'm sure it will be toast soon.