[Farmall] Oily brakes, Farmall M

[E. John Puckett]

I should have mentioned earlier, I used a slide hammer type combination 
dent puller/seal puller to get mine.  Still not easy, but apparently not 
as difficult a round as you had.  Also on the H, the seal rides on the 
brake drum, so there is oil on the splines.  I made a gasket to go under 
the cap to keep it form leaking onto the outside of the drum.

Dean Vinson wrote:
> Holy cow, John, you weren't kidding about it being difficult to get those
> double seals out.  I finally set out to do that this morning, after picking
> up the new oil seals earlier in the week.  I made a little puller with some
> battery tie-down rods that had about the right size hook on the end, but the
> rods weren't nearly strong enough and the hooks just bent out as I tried to
> pull the seal.  After dinking around unsuccessfully with various other
> methods I went to an auto parts store and bought a nice gear puller and used
> that.  Set up some blocks and a length of 1x1x3/16" steel angle for it to
> push against, since I was afraid to let it push against the brake shaft.
> Even with that it was hard--the puller bent the piece of angle iron up, but
> eventually the seals came out.  Must have taken six or eight hours, counting
> the trip to the store and lots of head scratching.
>
> I tapped the new seals in with a block of wood and a hammer.  Seemed pretty
> anticlimactic after all the fuss getting the old ones out.
>
> Dean Vinson
> Dayton, Ohio
> www.vinsonfarm.net
>
>   

-- 
 John
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