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Product: EXCAVATOR
Model: 325B L EXCAVATOR 6DN00735
Configuration: 325B & 325B LN Excavators 6DN00001-UP (MACHINE) POWERED BY 3116 Engine

Service Magazine
1999/07/12
Media Number -SEPD0480-00Publication Date -12/07/1999Date Updated -12/07/1999

SEPD04800036

Hydraulic Cylinder Seal Kit Information Is Now On

Line {0376,7555,7562}
SMCS - 0376-BD; 0376-BK; 0376; 7555-BD; 7555-BK; 7555; 7562-BD; 7562-BK;
7562

All Caterpillar Machines Equipped With Hydraulic Cylinders

Reference: Cat Information Release Memo IRM 98-2, Media No. PELM0832, "Cat
Hydraulic Cylinder Seal Kit Usage and Kit Consist Now Available Through
Caterpillar's Technical Marketing Information (TMI) system," October 1998.

Hydraulic cylinder seal kit information for most Caterpillar products is available to
dealers on line. The information is available via a new TMI KITS Program in the
Technical Marketing Information Application. TMI is a part of AIMS system on the
Cat Network.

TMI KITS Program will show all seal kits available for the different engineering
design change levels of Caterpillar hydraulic cylinder group part numbers. This
includes standard cylinders as well as 0.76 mm (.030 in) and 1.52 mm (.060 in)
oversize bores. In addition, TMI KITS Program will show the current consist of
Caterpillar hydraulic cylinder seal kits. TMI KITS information is updated monthly in
order to provide more accurate information.

Caterpillar dealer personnel should contact their Dealers' Information Systems (IS)
(ACF2) coordinator for access to Cat Network, AIMS, and TMI KITS Program.

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The Reference listed above also includes additional data on how to use TMI KITS in
order to determine seal and gasket kits available for Cat engines and bearing and seal
kits available for Cat power train components. See IRM Eng 98-3, Media No.
PELE0634 for more details.

How To Access Information

To select the correct Cat hydraulic cylinder seal kit in order to reseal a particular
cylinder group, the cylinder group part number AND engineering design change level
(C/L) of the group must be known. Group part number and C/L can be found on the
outside of the cylinder group, either on a tag welded to the cylinder group, or etched
onto the outside of the cylinder group tube. The etched number will be either laterally
along the cylinder tube or around the outside of the cylinder tube by the rod (open) end
of the tube.

Change Levels (C/L) Are Important For Ordering

Correct Seal Kits
If Cat makes INTERNAL changes to our hydraulic cylinder groups, the group part
numbers may not change. But, the engineering design change levels of the hydraulic
cylinder group part number will change. The initial design of a cylinder group part
number is considered C/L 00. Each consist change causes the C/L to be increased, that
is 00 to 01, 01 to 02, etc.

Different Cat seal kits may be needed to reseal different engineering design change
levels of the same Cat cylinder group part number.

For example, the heads of many Cat hydraulic cylinder groups were redesigned and a
head wear ring was added to the cylinder group design. These changes in group design
did not cause the cylinder group part number to change. Only the engineering change
level of the hydraulic cylinder changed.

There was the need to create new seat kits for the changes to the cylinder groups in
order to add the head wear ring for service. Caterpillar still services the earlier changes
to the cylinder groups by maintaining the seal kits for the specific C/L that is indicated
on the earlier cylinder groups.

Many dealers and customers continue to order the wrong Cat hydraulic cylinder seal kit
to reseal their cylinder group. This is because they did not know the engineering design
change level of their cylinder group when they started to order the seal kit that they
needed.

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