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Product: EXCAVATOR
Model: 374F EXCAVATOR XWL
Configuration: 374F L Excavator XWL00001-UP (MACHINE) POWERED BY C15 Engine

Systems Operation
374F Excavator Hydraulic System
Media Number -KENR9614-07 Publication Date -01/11/2019 Date Updated -01/11/2019

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Travel Parking Brake

SMCS - 4267

The travel parking brake is built into the travel motor. When the oil delivery from the pump flows to
the travel motor, the parking brake releases and the travel motor starts rotating. When no oil delivery
flows to the travel motor, the rotation of the travel motor stops and the travel parking brake engages.
For more information concerning the operation of the travel motor, refer to Systems Operation,
"Travel Motor ".

Illustration 1 g03390014
Parking brake (parking brake engaged)
(1) Port (supply oil or return oil)
(2) Port (supply oil or return oil)
(3) Housing
(4) Barrel
(5) Friction disks
(6) Separator plates
(7) Brake piston
(8) Brake spring
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(9) Piston chamber

(10) Passage
(11) Passage
(12) Orifice
(13) Passage
(14) Orifice
(15) Counterbalance valve
(16) Valve
(17) Spring
(18) Passage

In the parking brake section of the travel motor, separator plates (6) are splined to housing (3).
Friction disks (5) are splined to barrel (4). Brake springs (8) force brake piston (7) to the left. Brake
piston (7) presses separator plates (6) and friction disks (5) together. Pressing the plates and discs
together locks barrel (4) to housing (3). The motor shaft is splined to barrel (4). Because the plates
and disks lock the barrel to the housing, the motor shaft is locked to the housing. The parking brake
prevents rotation of the motor shaft.

When no pump oil is supplied to the travel motor, brake piston (7) is pushed to the left by the force of
brake springs (8). The oil in piston chamber (9) flows through passage (10), passage (11) to orifice
(12). The oil flows through orifice (12) and passage (13) into valve (16). The oil then flows through
valve (16) and orifice (14) to the drain line. Brake piston (7) moves to the left. Friction disks (5) and
separator plates (6) are held together by brake springs (8). The rotation of the travel motor stops.

Orifice (12) and orifice (14) restrict return oil flow from piston chamber (9) to the return line. The
restriction of the oil flow delays the application of the parking brake. The parking brake is delayed in
order to give the machine time to stop. Severe wear and/or damage to the machine could result if the
machine stayed in motion when the parking brake is engaged.

Prior to the operation of the travel motor, oil flows through port (2) and into counterbalance valve
(15). The oil then flows through passage (18) to valve (16). Valve (16) shifts against the force of
spring (17). Oil flows to passage (13) and to orifice (12). The oil then flows through passage (11) and
passage (10) to piston chamber (9). Brake piston (7) moves to the right against the force of brake
springs (8). The spring load which compresses friction disks (5) and separator plates (6) together is
released.

Oil flows from port (2) into counterbalance valve (15) to barrel (4). Since the parking brake is
disengaged, barrel (4) and the motor shaft now rotate. Return oil from barrel (4) flows through
counterbalance valve (15) to port (1) and to the return system.

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