[Farmall] 39 Farmall A: Getting sleeves/pistons out.

[John Gustafson]

Al,
I know the feeling about the shift in technology. The A was a step up from 
the F series. The kids should see the 28 Regular my son and I have been 
pounding on. A lot of it is surprising when you dig down and see how they 
did things. Son keeps shaking his head and I keep telling him, look, the 
technology is not that far removed from steam traction engines. They made a 
lot of progress in design in the ten years between 29 and 39.

Our sleeves came out fairly easily but there was so much corrosion around 
the seal area on the sleeves we replaced them all. Fortunatly the seals 
never leaked so the corrosion never got to the seal area on the block.

From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Farmall] 39 Farmall A: Getting sleeves/pistons out.


>I agree.  And before it's all said & done, they'll at least get a chance to
> see a sleeve puller.  However resources are, shall we say, "limited."  I
> don't have a real nice selection of specialized tools on hand--we've been
> fortunate to do some borrowing of some stuff already.
>
> I already knew wet sleeves came out easier than dry ones.  The fact the
> pistons are stuck was what was throwing me.  I had looked at the service
> manual, studied the tractor, looked at the manual again, and just couldn't
> make up my mind what would work the best.
>
> This is one of those "above and beyond" projects that isn't something we
> normally are able to do in this class.  I haven't taught this particular
> course in about 7-8 years, so when the tractor came along, I decided to 
> "go
> for the gusto."  The way it's shaping up, I think it's going to be
> meaningful to the students, even if we have to improvise a little.  I have
> two or three "car guys" in  there already, and they are enjoying comparing
> and contrasting 1939 technology with their own personal vehicles.  So 
> we'll
> make do and hopefully they'll learn something too.
>
> Thanks everybody for the advice.  If things come together we MIGHT have 
> the
> engine in a stand by Friday....
>
> Al
>
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> From: "Jim Becker" <jim.becker at verizon.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:10 AM
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>
>> And one would reasonably presume that use of the proper tools is one 
>> thing
>> the students should be learning in a class project like this.
>> Jim Becker
>>
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>> From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:25 AM
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>>
>>> There is a tool made for that. . . .
>>
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