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BANDITFARMER

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This weeks job has been to dismount 2 15.5x38s clean the rims and paint remount the newer tires and put back on the D17. I can say that these were original tires on the tractor and they were wore out. Only one rim needed alot of cleaning and a spot fixed. 47 year old tires are not fun to brake the beed down on with a tire hammer and a slegehammer and 2 spoons. One done and mounted and painted the other is getting close to mounting. Maybe next week I will have them done. Maybe I will take the day off tomorrow. Bandit
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playing with tires can be hard work. those old tires that have been mounted for along time can be hard to break the bead sometimes, I use the backhoe, it saves alot of swinging the hammer :D
 
we use the bachoe for breaking beads too.Started out useing the hoe bucket,then we found out the outrigger does alot better job!
 
For a couple of bucks you can have all new zinc or cadmium wheel and rim nuts. Finish it off in style.
 
I forgot one more thing I have to do, I have to pull the right axle to put a new seal in the transmission at the axle. It leaks oil on the brakes. Got to figuar out how to pull it and change the seal and reassemble it without damaging the seal. Going to be fun! Bandit
 
This rim was a pain in the butt to do. First one was easy, One day to dismount clean and paint. Next day to mount the tire and put it back on the tractor and start to take the other one off. This one somebody had welded each of the adjusters to the rim because they lost one of the cam wedeges so lots of cutting. The tube had a patch on it when I took it off and figuared the rim would look bad, I was right. Beat all the rust off wire wheeled it and mixed up some baking soda and water to make a paste and coated the bad areas and let it sit for 2 days. Sand plasted it and gave it two heavy coats of cold galvinsing compound and two heavy coats of aliumiun paint with a brush and a spray coat to the outside of the rim. Its alot of work but if you are going to do it do it right. This is for a working tractor that needed tires not to restore it and sit around to look at. Just work that needed done to keep her working. Bandit
 
Question, you say 15.5 X 38 on a D17? I have never seen a D17 with 38" rubber only 28" and the 28" is not made in a 15.5 size. The D19 I know did have a 38" tire but never heard of a D17 having that size tire. Special Model?
 
Its a high clearance D17 not a high crop. They came with 13.6x38 standard tire size or could order with 14.9x38 or 15.5x38 rubber. Draw bar is about 20" to 22" high. The high clearance modles used the same drop axel as the regular D17s, Just have diffrent gearing in the rear end to keep the same speeds with the bigger tires. Great to cultivate, bush hog and the best to rake hay with. Its kind of handy and diffrent and a little hard to get on, First step is a killer. Bandit
 
Never heard of a model like that. Was that for cultivating a specialty crop? What part of the country are you in? The standard with the 28" wheels are all that were sold here in Ohio.
 
I got this tractor down by Sinking Springs in Ohio I am 50 miles northwest of there. They were used to culitvate and side dress corn and other crops. I know of 2 more like it here in Ohio up by Wilmington and Jeffersonville. These are between the regular D17s and the high crop D17s. There are alot out west and down south, But in southwest Ohio there are not many of them. Heres a picture of one restored out west, Its Sharp! Bandit
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