[Farmall] Titan update

[John Hall]

I think I've already found a good sorce on the parts. My first rule of 
machining--neve make what can be reasonably bought!! We're going to try to 
pull the transmission tomorrow. Gotta rig up a cradle for the floor jack 
first. Reached in the inspection hole and brought out what appears to be a 
rather large piece of a fork.

There is a silver cloud to all this. I have been wanting an excuse to pull 
the transmission out to clean and paint it.

Anybody know where to buy the 600w grease thats in this thing? Better yet, 
do I wash my coveralls when we are done or just buy a new pair?

John Hall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lane Freeman" <lmfree at ptd.net>
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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Farmall] Titan update


> Certainly sound like one of my adventures; fix one thing and two other
> things break.  But eventually if you fix enough things you will beat the
> beast.  I probably have the parts you need(still in a tractor)  but it may
> be quite a while before they are available.  Sounds like you are pretty
> handy as a machinist so maybe you will be able to make parts better than 
> the
> original.
>
> Lane Freeman
> New Tripoli, PA
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Currie" <tractors at foothill.net>
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> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 12:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Farmall] Titan update
>
>
>> Very unfortunate John. Almost sounds like one of Lane Freeman's
> adventures,
>> as I know he plays with Titan's and other old stuff of the same vintage.
>> I'll be interested to hear how you go about digging into a transmission 
>> on
>> one of those tractors. But I'm real glad to read that it was moving 
>> around
>> under it's own power. Nuthin' makes ya grin more than getting up on one 
>> of
>> those ol beasts while it's sittin' there vibrating and running, and then
>> pulling the levers, pushing the pedals, and working all the gadgets and
>> gizmos to make actually go down the road.  I don't know much of anything
>> about 10-20 Titans, but if it's got drive chains, it's gotta be fun!!
>>
>> bobcurrie
>> greenwood, CA
>>
>>   At 04:14 PM 12/29/05, you wrote:
>> >Here is my latest adventures, unfortunatel it is a mixed report.
>> >First the good news. I drove the Titan today for the first time.
>> >Now the bad news. About 50 feet from returning to the shop something in
>> >the transmision broke and knocked a chunk out of the trasmission case.
>> >Shifter fork or bearing went under a gear???
>> >
>> >Oh well, hadn't planned on learing anything about how this transmission
>> >works. Guess I'll quit planning things pertaining to 85 year old iron.
>> >
>> >John Hall
>> >
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