[Farmall] Cub Touch Control acting funny

[Mike Sloane]

After 55 years, your Touch Control unit is probably due for a general 
overhaul  - nothing more serious than disassembly, cleaning, replacing 
all the "O" rings & gaskets, and re-assembly. While not "rocket science" 
it is not a job to begin at 9 AM and expect to be mowing lawns by noon - 
the unit has to be removed from the tractor to be disassembled, and that 
means removing the hood/tank. The overhaul kit is available from Case 
IH, and all the rest is just turning wrenches, following the Blue Ribbon 
manual (including the part about cleanliness!). The hardest part is 
getting the bolts torqued down on the head, unless you have a huge vice. 
(One thing the manual doesn't tell you is that you need some air 
pressure to remove a couple of the spools - they won't just fall out 
after being in there for 50 years.) On one of my units, there was so 
much crud in the filter that it had collapsed, and I had to bend it back 
into the correct shape.

Or you can just live with the jerky rise until winter.

Mike

Nadzam, John [MCCUS] wrote:
> I have a question to ask the group,
> 
> I have 51 cub that I got about two months ago with 42" woods belly mower.
> and it seems the touch control is acting a little 'odd'  I have never had a
> cub before, or played much with hydraulics so let me describe the problem.
> 
> It has both a upper and lower stop for the touch control lever, and it
> always lifts the deck to the same upper position (and it is not hitting
> anything under the tractor)
> 
> It always lowers smoothly but sometimes it lowers all the way to the ground
> and sometimes it seems to stop a little short.
> 
> If I move the lever its full travel all way it will rise smoothly, but if I
> try and 'inch' the deck up I end up pulling it back quite a bit and the it
> tends to 'hop' up. but if the deck is up I can usually slowly lower it down
> the length of travel of the touch control lever.
> 

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