Manufacturers estimate that 50% of machine costs stem from undercarriage upkeep and repairs. There are many moving parts that need to be maintained in a piece of tracked heavy equipment to avoid additional costs and extend its lifespan. The great news is, undercarriage maintenance doesn’t vary much with different machine...

THE SOLUTION: The Tools You Didn’t Know Existed See our previous blog post: Debunking Off-Highway Diagnostics - Part 1 The days of waiting days for OEM repairs just to be left with a fat bill are over. Now there are a number of aftermarket diagnostic & repair tools to get...

Why Is it So Hard to Find Heavy Equipment Repair Information and Tools? The one thing that always comes up is the difference between commercial trucks and heavy equipment in the off-highway world. How different can they be? Well, very. For starters, commercial trucks have just a handful of vehicle...

Diesel Laptops offers plenty of free resources for truck owners/operators, shop owners, and fleet managers to make the most of their diagnostic tools. Today, we are going to highlight the top ten free resources available from Diesel Laptops. The first three free resources we are going to highlight are all...

Coding a Yanmar Injector is simple with the TEXA Off-Highway Complete Kit by Diesel Laptops. There are several modules available on the TEXA software including car, truck, bike and marine, but for this purpose we will be using off-highway. Injector Coding Steps Under the ‘Off-Highway’ Module select ‘Construction Vehicles & Special...

Fed up with construction projects constantly taking longer than anticipated? You’re not alone. Large capital projects generally run 20 months late and build up a price tag 80% over the original budget, according to McKinsey & Company’s Construction’s Digital Future. But it’s not just big projects that are suffering –...