An Educational Guide for Excavator Owners, Operators & Fleet Managers in South Africa The final drive is one of the most abused—and most expensive—components on any excavator. It’s the muscle that turns your tracks, pushes the machine through mud, climbs slopes, and rotates under load. And yet, most failures don’t come from “bad luck” or “a weak part.” They come from operation .How the machine is driven matters just as much as what’s inside the gearbox. At Vikfin, we’ve seen