freightdog
New User
Hello, brand new to the forum here. Skip the first paragraph if you dont want my boring backstory.
I grew up in a farming family that moved over to construction and rental property when I was pretty young. But we kept our hands in it a little here and there. I have always loved classic equipment, but then the teenage years happened and I got away from it in favor of cars, girls, and starting a career. But now that I am married and in a comfortable career my interest has rekindled, and unfortunately I now have the means to feed it! My wife and I bought a small hobby farm and a neighbor that loves old iron just as much which bring me to the M.
My dad and I bought a 51 Farmall M about 12 years ago. It had been sitting in a barn for several years. A gallon of fresh gas and a set of jumper cables and it fired right up. I made a lot of money in high school bush hogging and disking gardens with that thing, it sat while I was in college, then when we moved to Central OK I went and fetched it from my parents, brought it home, and use it almost daily.
Its had a small hydraulic leak for years. Now it has become a big leak. It seems to be coming from the rear of the old belly pump. This tractor has a M and W live hydraulic system powering a 2 point fast hitch and a Char Lyn power steering system, along with a Norden wide front end. The belly pump is just being used as a reservoir. Ive been researching how to remove the pump and Ive got some questions.
The elbows coming out of the side of the pump need to be removed apparently, will those just screw out?
Also, if the belly pump was disabled will there still be an input shaft that needs to be removed and a seal that could be leaking?
Last question, it appears on the exploded view that theres
another gasket in there. So a seal around the shaft, and this other gasket, is there any other seal or gasket in there that I should replace while Im in there? My job takes me away for several days at a time so I wanna have everything to for sure fix it and get it done in one shot
Thanks in advance, I know just enough about turning a wrench to be dangerous
I grew up in a farming family that moved over to construction and rental property when I was pretty young. But we kept our hands in it a little here and there. I have always loved classic equipment, but then the teenage years happened and I got away from it in favor of cars, girls, and starting a career. But now that I am married and in a comfortable career my interest has rekindled, and unfortunately I now have the means to feed it! My wife and I bought a small hobby farm and a neighbor that loves old iron just as much which bring me to the M.
My dad and I bought a 51 Farmall M about 12 years ago. It had been sitting in a barn for several years. A gallon of fresh gas and a set of jumper cables and it fired right up. I made a lot of money in high school bush hogging and disking gardens with that thing, it sat while I was in college, then when we moved to Central OK I went and fetched it from my parents, brought it home, and use it almost daily.
Its had a small hydraulic leak for years. Now it has become a big leak. It seems to be coming from the rear of the old belly pump. This tractor has a M and W live hydraulic system powering a 2 point fast hitch and a Char Lyn power steering system, along with a Norden wide front end. The belly pump is just being used as a reservoir. Ive been researching how to remove the pump and Ive got some questions.
The elbows coming out of the side of the pump need to be removed apparently, will those just screw out?
Also, if the belly pump was disabled will there still be an input shaft that needs to be removed and a seal that could be leaking?
Last question, it appears on the exploded view that theres
another gasket in there. So a seal around the shaft, and this other gasket, is there any other seal or gasket in there that I should replace while Im in there? My job takes me away for several days at a time so I wanna have everything to for sure fix it and get it done in one shot
Thanks in advance, I know just enough about turning a wrench to be dangerous