[AT] What's in your transmission?

[charlie hill]

John,  gravity and sludge was your friend!

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: john hall
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 1:49 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
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Subject: [AT] What's in your transmission?

While rebuilding the belt pulley attachment on one of the Super A's last 
week, we decided to change the transmission fluid as it was very old and 
looked horrible. We drained it, flushed with some diesel and thought it was 
ready to go back together. For the heck of it I decided to see if any 
grit/sludge was in  the drain plug area. I pulled out 2 large pieces of 
metal and lots of metal shavings with a magnet. We pulled the cover top to 
see where the metal came from. One of the holders for the shifter forks had 
broken and been replaced. We knew it hadn't been anything to happen in 
recent memory so dad called up a guy that used to work on the farm here. 
Turns out that sometime in the last 20-30 years (or longer) that part broke 
while cultivating tobacco. Obviously all the pieces didn't get fished out of 
the transmission. Hard to believe anything could have been in there this 
long and not have managed to take out a couple teeth.

John Hall
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