[AT] Super M

[Allen V. Pruehs]

What are you waiting for? Type in "oil filtration" in the search box on 
Ebay and several units, two "Como" brand units, will come up. Now that you 
have an idea of what you are looking for you might be able to find one at 
an auction sometime. A little plumbing and maybe some bigger wheels and you 
will be in business.

Take care,
Allen Pruehs
SE Michigan
Oliver, Hart Parr, Cletrac, Orphans and Oddballs

At 04:34 PM 3/12/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>         Some of you may remember that when Cecil from OK was here with 
> the fire truck I was going to use my Farmall Super M with the loader to 
> set the generator outfit someone had dropped here for him to pick up on 
> top of the fire truck. In spite of being quite cold it started right up 
> but wouldn't move. I knew right away that it had gotten water in the 
> transmission and it was frozen.
>         Well, Ralph finally got the gate far enough shut up there that 
> things warmed up some here and I finally found a "round tuit" to drain 
> the water out. It ran out nice and clear so I plugged it back up and have 
> been using it a bit. Started right off without any help and running well. 
> I have been hauling some composted wood chips to do some mulching.
>         Last fall I acquired an antique gravity cream separator that 
> someone had already pretty much messed up as an antique by using a broom 
> to paint it with aluminum paint so I have taken it for separating oil and 
> water. I put the stuff I drained out of the Super M which was more water 
> than oil and let it sit overnight. Next day I drained the water out of 
> the valve at the bottom of the cone and gave it another day to sit. I 
> then drained out the tiny bit of sludge that settled out of the lube 
> giving me about a gallon and a half of pretty decent looking lube.
>         I'm sure that I didn't get all of the water out of the tractor 
> from that rear plug so when it warms back up again I'm going to drain the 
> whole transmission and rear end. I might even run the front end up on a 
> ramp block. Then I'll run all of the lube through the separator (I think 
> it holds about 6 gallons at a time) then run it through a fine screen 
> before I put it back in. This lube isn't all that old or I would replace it.
>         I would love to just start replacing all of the gear lube in all 
> of my tractors but with so many large ones involved that hold 10 to 15 
> gallons each it starts costing serious money$$$$$. I may just start 
> draining them one at a time and cleaning it up the best I can then 
> putting it back with maybe 10% or so new lube.
>         Long ago we discussed an idea I had for making a unit that I 
> could roll up behind a tractor and pump the lube out of the transmission 
> and rear end and run it through some filters to clean it up and pump it 
> back in. In thinking about it (if I ever actually get to it) it might be 
> well to include an overnight sit in a cone separator then through the filters.
>
>--
>
>
>
>"farmer"
>
>I was going to mention something cute about my failing memory but I have 
>forgotten it already...  :-)
>
>
>Francis Robinson
>Central Indiana USA
>robinson at svs.net
>
>
>
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