Needing a hydraulic filter

[D2Cat]

They call it an element. No place to be found except a Cat dealer, $83. It goes in the #44 hydraulic control. It's a tank with the valve and pump. I took this thing apart because the levers were not moving the spool valve properly. The tank holds 3 1/2 gallons of 10 wt oil. It's 73 years old!

 

[BAP]

Do you have a part number for it that you can Google and see if it pops up? If you can get the part number from Cat you might be able to cross it using a number cross chart from Wix or another filter company.

 

[mikester]

CAT might be expensive but they seem to stock parts forever!

 

[GreensvilleJay]

# is 7F7238 , only Cat has it ,according to a 6 year old post on another forum, (old cat guys....)

I'd buy the element if you gave me the neat ride that 's 2 years OLDER than me......
Sometimes you have to 'pay the piper'..'bite the bullet', 'pry open the wallet'....

 

[Tughill Tom]

$83 bucks for that filter isn't out of reason, I've paid double that for some on my Snowcats.

 

[fried1765]

They call it an element. No place to be found except a Cat dealer, $83. It goes in the #44 hydraulic control. It's a tank with the valve and pump. I took this thing apart because the levers were not moving the spool valve properly. The tank holds 3 1/2 gallons of 10 wt oil. It's 73 years old!

GO FOR IT!
At 73 it is MUCH younger than you are.
You should consider yourself lucky that you can even find that filter.

 

[D2Cat]

Got it all back together and works good. The spring loaded mechanism that holds the filter in place had me fooled for a while. The picture I took when I was messing with in on the truck bed shows it wrong. The round pin goes on top of the washer which sets on the spring.

That cover weighs about 35 pounds, so I put a couple studs on each upper side and was able to use a cable come-a-long do do all the work.