[Farmall] Oily brakes, Farmall M

[Dean Vinson]

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


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[mailto:farmall-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of E. John
Puckett
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [Farmall] Oily brakes, Farmall M

I have never replaced the seals on an M brakes, but on an H the oil level
should be quite aways below the seals, and I assume an M would be likewise.
The seal can be removed using a combination of a seal hook, or one of the
small slide hammer dent pullers.  You may find it to be a double seal with
an outer shell, sometimes pretty difficult to get it all out.