I don't think I'd worry too much about the hoe. What I would make a point of checking is the brakes. If they're grinding and chattering or don't stop well you're in for a fairly expensive repair. When the plates get worn to that stage they also tend to shed a lot of material that causes a lot of havoc with valves.. I'm not really familiar with the Cat's plumbing but I assume that they use a common resevoir with the trans/axle. The powertrain of that machine excepting the engine are Ford components... and for whatever reason Cat recomended the use of their own oil PLUS a friction modifier additive for the brakes. Lot of guys don't use the additive (at least the machines I've observed locally).... and they don't use 134D/TDH either.... so you see a lot of 5000 hour Cat hoes with brakes shelled out. It's a mess to clean up on top of 2-3K in parts.
Bottom line... if you drive the machine at a good clip it should stop briskly with no grinding and little noise generally and certainly NO chatter from the brakes..
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