At ConEquip a serial number is needed to identify the proper parts for your equipment and our customers often ask 'where do I find my serial number?' Because of this, we have put together a series of resources that will help you to locate your construction equipment serial number. The basis of the serial number location project is from the work of George Kleinsteiber and the OSWCA. In addition to the efforts of those mentioned above our team at ConEquip (along with many of our loyal customers) were able to compile resources to aid in your machine identification. We have enhanced the information with accessible pages along with a printable PDF, machine pictures, and in many cases videos identifying the exact location of a serial number on your construction equipment (take a look at the Komatsu excavator example below).
If you are a local contractor who would like to share images or videos of the serial number location on your machine, please contact us. We would love to share your resource with our audience of machine operators and part sellers. Tag, you're it!
Serial Number Guide Major Manufacturers The Serial Number Guide provides model year (year of manufacture) information for the following construction equipment manufacturers: Caterpillar. Equipment is not tested under load or operated in all available gears. We make no representation or warranty that equipment is operating in accordance with manufacturers' specifications. No inspection has been performed with respect to any functionality aspect other than those expressly included herein.
Hey, I'm Ben with ConEquip 101. Tag you're it! Nope, you're it and it's your turn to figure out why it's so important to be tagged and asking the great questions to get the right results for our customers. Transmissions, rear axle assemblies, front axle assemblies, turbos, water pumps, starters, alternators, main hydraulic pumps, engines, final drives, swing motors, all have tags on them.
Any time you hear the word pump, everybody say that with me, pump. You equate that to tag. Any time you hear the word pump there's usually a tag.
Hydraulic pump, water pump, transmission pump, main hydraulic pump. (Ben dancing to PUMP UP THE JAM MUSIC) Anytime you hear the word pump you got to think there's a hydraulic tag on it. It's just a little plate, as you can see, and then it has a lot of stuff on it. It might look Greek to you, it looks more Japanese to me but the purpose of those tags is to carry information and even though you and I don't know what it means all the time we have professionals that have a higher educational level than we do or at least me that do know what it means and that's okay it makes me excited to know that there are lots of people that can crack the code on those tags.
Ask for the information. Sir, ma'am, I know on that main hydraulic pump there's a tag on there. If you can get me that tag information it'll ensure the accuracy of the part I'm going to be sending to you. So number one, tags ensure the accuracy.
Number two, they also will find errors and mistakes in parts books or if the part was replaced with something different that the customer didn't know about because they bought the machine used and somebody else put a pump in there well that works but hey, it didn't come with it so, well originally it didn't come with the machine. Therefore, when you're in the parts book looking it up you might have this part number and you remember this video and say oh I'm supposed to ask for a tag it's like yeah the part numbers are definitely different.
Where did you buy the machine? Let's start some investigation again. Oh, I brought it at an auction. Imagine that. That's where we go from there. They have tags on them also.
You got to just get the information. It's very, very helpful. Final drives have tags. Very important as well because people definitely change out final drive and have different aftermarket ones in there and then you know that it's aftermarket either way you just ask. So let's look at some live tags in action. So let's look at a CAT engine tag.
(POINTING) engine serial number, engine arrangement number, here's the final drive information. On final drives because ConEquip Parts sells a lot of final drives, and I'm going to tell you how to tell a customer on where a final drive tag is located. On an excavator, we're gonna start with that, there's a cover plate on the inside part of the tracks you take off there's usually four to like seven or eight bolts that have we'll take off a cover plate. Take the cover plate off, tell them to get a flashlight and the tag will be staring them right in the face when they look in there. The other thing they might want to bring is a rag because there's a lot of crap that still gets up in there and you might have to wipe the tag off really good.
If somebody has a really good quality iPhone or a droid phone they can take a picture of it and send it to you via text message. Or just read it off to you. And make sure when they are reading it off to you there could be things like an M-A-G number which would be a MAG number what we call or a Teijin Seiki drive. There's Comer drives, there's Som drives. There's some other drives manufacturers out there. It doesn't matter. Whatever's on the tag is what you want the customer to give you.
That is gonna be basically like your social security number, at least on this planet. However, the tags are actually more than just a social security number they're like God's DNA for your life and how you are, and built internally that's all the information that's on that tag. And that's the same for the main hydraulic pumps typically located either on the side of the block or on the valve cover which is on top of the cylinder head. Depending on the manufacturer, for instance, Cummins. They will have an engine serial number also known as ESN so they'll have an engine serial number and also a CPL that's Charlie P as in Paul L as in Larry, CPL which is a maybe complete parts list possibly it's what it means but it's really important. So, engine serial number, CPL - memorize that for Cummins. The next would be Catapillar.
Caterpillar has an ESN and also an arrangement number which also could be abbreviated a A-R-R-G on the tag. That you're gonna ask the customer for. Perkins also has an engine serial number and also a family number you need both of those. Kubota, just has an engine serial number Deutz, german-made, engine serial number and something else.
Case engines just have engine serial numbers. Yanmar, doesn't matter we don't help out people with Yanmars. Ford, really tough to get we can get engine rebuild kits they just have an engine serial number. Mitsubishi, love selling engines parts for Mitsubishi.
Good, we have some good sources to help people out with those. Isuzu has engine serial numbers and I think something else and I think just engines serial numbers. Engine model number for Komatsu which just has an engine serial number but Komatsu model number as 6D95L-3.
Who comes up with that weird stuff? Doesn't matter, just ask that's what matters to you. That's it for this class.
I'm Ben with ConEquip 101, we'll see you in the next class. Call us if you need help locating your serial number.