[AT] DC Case

[charlie hill]

Gene,  my dad used to laugh about the old days when farmers here first 
started to get tractors to replace their mules.
He said they'd do ok plowing with them until they got to the end of the 
field when the last
thing you heard before the tractor ran off in the canal was WHOAAAA 
WHOOAAAA!

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gene Dotson
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 2:58 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] DC Case

    Ron;

    Sounds like you had a 1939, or early 1940 DC. Early models had the same
clutch setup as the C and CC model tractors. Got some guys in trouble with
the different engagement. One guy had several DC tractors and bought a CC
and while loading it on his trailer, instinctively pulled back to disengage,
only to have the clutch fully engage and run off the front of the trailer
into the back of his truck. He, the tractor and the truck all got banged up
somewhat. Guess that would be like having your elevator cables reversed?

                        Gene



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Cook" <rlcook at longlines.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] DC Case


> In the mid-fifties my dad bought a DC Case somewhere.  At an auction, I
> suppose.  I had never seen one like it until last fall at an old tractor
> event.  I do not know what year it was built, but it did have an
> electrical system and was a "styled version".  It had narrow front with
> chicken roost steering arrangement, non adjustable rear axles that had
> dished cast centers and spacers to place in for different width.  It had
> steering brake pedals that were round and were operated very nearly
> straight up and down.  A hand clutch on the right hand side that
> operated opposite of a John Deere and the same as a Caterpillar.   A
> steering wheel with fancy multiple spokes and a built in spinner.   Lots
> of nice smooth, big bore 4-cylinder power and cumbersome as all get
> out.  At least for  a 130 lb 14 year old.
>
> Now the reason for the posting..........it was purchased to run the flat
> belt ensilage blower.   Our family, uncles, granddad, neighbors, were
> involved in a silo filling ring and a blower tractor was needed.  Seeing
> as how the DC was good on a belt and unhandy for other things, it got
> selected.  Boy, did that thing work good.  Right up (my dad told me the
> real story about a year before he died) until the old DC threw a rod
> right through the engine while blowing ensilage over the top of the
> tallest silo in the community.  That plugged the blower and stopped
> things that day and they really didn't get going until after I got out
> of school that afternoon and discovered the blown up Case and our John
> Deere 70 on the blower instead of on the cutter.  Well, it WAS and old
> tractor and it just wore out suddenly.
>
> 60 years later, I find out that my dad, who was a 2-cyinder John Deere
> operator, discovered oil in the clutch of the DC while , I suppose,
> adjusting the clutch.  So, on that last day he periodically checked on
> the old DC and drained that oil that kept collecting in the clutch.
> Yep.....ran the old girl completely out of oil.  He did not know there
> was supposed to be oil in there.  Funny thing, the farm we were working
> farmed with Case equipment exclusively and was the main reason the old
> DC was bought in the first place.  I am thinking there may have been a
> little too much blackberry brandy or peppermint schnaps involved in this
> whole deal.  I never did get an answer to that.
>
> Ron Cook
> Salix, IA  who used to drive a DC Case to school with single bar flipper
> hupcaps on the front wheels.  Cool man!
> On 1/15/2012 10:39 AM, Gene Dotson wrote:
>>      John;
>>
>>      The oil filter was an option on most Case tractors of that era. It
>> was a
>> partial flow, or more commonly called a sludge trap. It only filtered a
>> part
>> of the oil from the oil pressure relief valve and dumped back into the
>> crankcase. Most of the debris from the flywheel area would be in the
>> recess
>> in the bottom of the housing, making draining the clutch housing more
>> important.
>>
>>      I have always been amazed at the ability of the Case engines to
>> tolerate
>> all the debris from the clutch wear and other wear parts. Cleaning all
>> the
>> deposits from the crankcase should be a must do task on these old
>> tractors.
>> When I cleaned the crankcase on my LA, I must have gotten a gallon of
>> sludge
>> from it. When I pulled the sleeves, I think I got close to 2 gallons from
>> the water jacket.
>>
>>                      Gene
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "john hall"<jtchall at nc.rr.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion
>> group"<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 8:03 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] DC Case
>>
>>
>>> Gene, while looking at the parts book on the Case-IH website, I noticed
>>> an
>>> oil filter. Was that an attachment for these tractors? Considering the
>>> external lines it looks that way.
>>>
>>> John Hall
>>>
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