hi, i am new to the site and to my machine. can someone tell me about what year my a cat d7e model 48a11730 might be. i don't have much for documentation anywhere.

i have a parts manual but it isn't very clear on some of the illistrations and i would love to find an ON LINE parts manual but haven't had any luck there yet. any suggestions would be appricated.

thanks for any help provide,

Mike

They came out in 1961 but that,s all I have on it but guessing I,d think it,s about a 1963 or possibly a 64 or could be a year later than that but that gives you an idea but guys on here have a book with all SNs & when they were built so I,m sure someone will come back with the exact year it was made.You have a good machine there but in my area here they were not as popular as the D6 or D8 as they were a kind of in between tractor for size too big for smaller jobs & not big enough for big jobs but that didn,t take anything away from it.This is what I observed here in my area as working for the dealer I saw this on sales and service. There was lots of coal strippings and road construction so the bigger D8s & 9s were used and the D6s on smaller construction and grading work.

Best I can tell you is your tractor is a 1968 model--48A10214 thru 12094 is a 1968 model--1969 is12095 thru 13718 is 1969 . Have a few Parts for one if
you need them . Yours is proably a 180HP model ,better than the 160HP.
A lot of parts from a D7F from the motor back will work on yours.

Al Engines, I guess they didn,t make as many as I guessed so I guess I,ll have to get one of those books with all the SN years made. My book is a Cat dealer SNID book but only lists the start up date of production so I guess my experience on lower sales was all over the country than just here in my area for the D7s.

mike over on the other cat site(ACME)a cat named Busted puts some parts and operation manuals on CDs for a very reasonable price.if u really want one i would contact him over there.rudy