[Farmall] Oily brakes, Farmall M

[Dean Vinson]

Thanks, John.  You did mention the slide hammmer dent puller/seal puller,
but I didn't find anything like that when I went to the auto parts store.  I
figured the gear puller will likely come in handy again, so went ahead and
got it.  And as hard as it was to get those seals to budge, I'm glad to have
had it.

On your gasket, do you mean it goes behind that big cap washer and bolt that
holds the brake drum on the splined shaft?  I bought some flexible cork-like
washers from Case/IH to go there.  They don't show in the parts book diagram
for the brakes but they're shown in the diagram for the differential, listed
as "bull pinion and brake shaft seal".  They were about 3/16" thick
originally, but evidently compressed quite a bit once I tightened that bolt
and washer down on top of them.

When I originally took the brakes apart, each side had a rubber washer in
that same place, with "fingers" extending out that fit in between the
splines.  The parts guy at the local Case/IH dealer didn't recognize them,
but figured they must have been an older version of the brake shaft seal. 

Dean Vinson
Dayton, Ohio
www.vinsonfarm.net


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:farmall-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of E. John
Puckett
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 6:39 PM
To: Farmall/IHC mailing list
Subject: Re: [Farmall] Oily brakes, Farmall M

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
another one of them
*.?-!.* cub owners


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