this weekend tractor repairs

toadady · May 27, 2011

being this is a long weekend i took the 584 to the shop for some much needed repairs, it had a bad oil leak at the rear main, the water pump was swaking and starting to weep, and i'm gona rebushing the shift levers and the front suspension,

getting the hood off was pretty quick,

then it was time for the fun part, dad showed up just as i was removing the bell housing bolts,

i got a tooth pulled today, and it went into the sinus cavity, so i'm on loricet today, and i gotta work tomorrow,
you see this gap above the oil pan and between the block? there is a metal block that is suppose to bolt up through the oil pan and then through the rear main seal housing, BUT they had it upside down and not bolted through the oil pan, so it leaked like a siv,

whoever tryed to work on this before couldn't figger out that when you bolt it down the rear main bolt holes line up,

rrlund · May 27, 2011

You've got more guts than I've got,tearing something down on a holiday weekend. I had to fabricate a new bottom for the silage cart today and even that made me nervous if things didn't go as planned.

Tom in TN · May 27, 2011

toadady,

I've never separated a tractor, so please understand that I'm not criticizing in any way. I'm asking out of my ignorance, not trying to make a statement.

It appears to me that you accomplished the split utilizing just two floor jacks - one on each half. I see a jack stand under the back half and a bottle jack under the front half, but I assume that you put them under the halves and lowered the halves onto them after the separation.

So, I'm just asking, were you able to separate the tractor just using the two floor jacks that are in the picture, or are there other devices that I just don't see?

Thanks,

Tom in TN

Welding man · May 27, 2011

Not trying to hy -jack your thread,but I have been splitting tractors for over 30 years. From farmall cubs-8N fords all the the way up to 150 HP 4WD tractors and all I have ever used is 2 floor jacks for the wide front models-and I have never dropped one in the floor or had one to fall off a jack.I know they make splitting stands etc. to do this but I just never felt I needed one. My wife can split an 8N in 2 hours by herself and all she uses is 2 floor jacks.Not really that complicated.

RayP(MI) · May 27, 2011

Replaced 1/2 shift solonoid on wife's car today. In checking the manual, car uses Dextron VI, All I had on hand was Dextron 3... Another trip to the car parts shop. Know what they get for a quart of Dex 6??? You don't want to know!

Tomorrow it's the front wheel universal on the old 4wd farm truck.

One I'm not looking forward to is replacing the crankshaft on my Farmall 200. Lots of other parts to buy and replace on that one, She was overdue for overhaul.

Bob · May 27, 2011

DARN! A swaking waterpump! Shucks, that's gonna cost some bucks!

toadady · May 27, 2011

(quoted from post at 22:10:19 05/27/11) toadady,

So, I'm just asking, were you able to separate the tractor just using the two floor jacks that are in the picture, or are there other devices that I just don't see?

Thanks,

Tom in TN

used two floor jacks and a bottle jack, the jack stand is there and there is a block under the engine, this was to make feel safer when working between them, and what you don't see is two 2x4s shoved between the front axle and the bolster to keep the engine from flopping over.

Know what they get for a quart of Dex 6???

yes, i do , i sell the crap.

DARN! A swaking waterpump! Shucks, that's gonna cost some bucks!

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toadady · May 29, 2011

WOW what a diffrence setting the valve lash makes! poor old thing probably had never had them checked, you could hear them talking to ya, i bet they were .020~.025 where they needed to be .012, should be make'n some more powa , it shure purrrrrs now

then i pulled the hyd filter, the bypass filter screen was put in WRONG!! it was put in up against the tractor, so it didn't let the filter do any thing,

now i've got the front end pulled out, all that's left to remove it the big center pin, i've got to cut a thick piece of steel and put some holes in it to make a puller for it, there was grease zerks that hadn't been greased in YEARS! the on top of the steering cylinder was dry, i hope it didn't eat too much of the cyliner boss off.

toadady · Jun 4, 2011

gahhh this has been a pain, sometime in it's past the right hand spindle upright has been replaced, not with another one, but they had a spindle houseing machined, then welded it to the cast piece with all the axle width adjustment holes in it, looks like they used stainless filler, and so far it looks like a better weld than factory, but my bushings would not work, so luckly my neighbor is a retired tool maker, and just happens to be "dating" my grandmother.

i had to order a pair of brass bushings from baughm hyd. and i got the shifter bushing from there too. we spent the better part of 4 hours maching the insides of the spindle bushings and pulling them in, by that time it was hot out and he (and me) was getting hot and tired. so i took the parts to the shop and installed them, mounted two new front tires and tubes. and started rebushing the shifters,

He has the shifter handle , we are going to rebore the swivell , silver solder a piece of 1/2" cold roll in , then rebore and cut a new pin, sounds like a lot of work, but he wants to do it so i'm going to let him, and hopefully i can learn too

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