[AT] Case DH Christmas present

[Gene Dotson]

    Ke;
    Wanted to tell you on the leaking water pump. Before you do anything 
with it, grease the fittings on the hub. Case uses a grease pressure seal in 
these pumps and may be all you need to do to it. All these years of setting 
has surely let the grease dry out of the seal. Apply grease till you feel a 
positive pressure. Any more will only pass by the seal.
    I use a special heavy grease in my LA to control the leakage in it. It 
has a cup greaser and have to screw it down every time I shut it down or the 
coolant will all run out. It will run all day and not leak at all till it is 
shut down.

                        Gene



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Knierim" <ken.knierim at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 10:58 AM
Subject: [AT] Case DH Christmas present


> Folks,
>   I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! After spending some
> time with the family for breakfast and opening presents, I went out
> and took a shot at firing up the DH I've been tinkering on for years.
> Well, after a relatively short period of time I had it running
> smoothly. There were a few kinks along the way but after all it's been
> through, it was good to see the tractor run and drive. I believe the
> last time this was actually driven was 1981 or thereabouts. I still
> need to get the correct front end for the tractor (it has a DC front
> axle on it right now) and some other minor issues but it fired up,
> drove around the yard a bit and did what it was supposed to. The
> typical minor issues (a couple leaks found after everything warmed up)
> coupled with a light drizzling rain (Rain? in Phoenix? on Christmas?
> naw!) and what looks like an intermittent magneto (something in the
> timing advance setting cause it to loose fire sometimes, especially
> when you want to start it up) caused me to park it back in the shop
> and wait for better weather.
>
> It was one of my many great Christmas presents. I hope everyone else
> had nearly as good a Christmas day as we had here.
>
> Ken in AZ
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