[Farmall] Seeing daylight again

[Matthew Gray]

you got any friends that squeeze hyd fittings onto hose

......wala.......instant crimping tool.........thats all i do
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 11:01 PM
Subject: [Farmall] Seeing daylight again


>I drug my Regular out from the back of the shed where it resides for the
> first time in quite a while (3 years or more?). During this long storage 
> it
> managed to get a stuck valve so we had to pull the valve cover and do a
> whole lot of persuading  to get it to free up. No sign of rust so not
> certain why it seized. anyway, got that straightened out and decided it 
> was
> time to get the handle on the crank to spin. A whole lot of heating later 
> I
> let it cool  and started putting penetrating oil in it. Finally I could 
> see
> it wiggle. A little more and it was loose. Then the bad part--it worked so
> loose it came completely off the end. So now I am planning to build a
> crimping die  so I can hopefully make it stay on the crank. Anyone here 
> ever
> successfully do this?
>
> John Hall
>
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