[AT] Tractors

[Stephen Offiler]

My only antique tractor right now is a '58 JD440IC (industrial crawler)
with an 8' blade.  It runs, and the undercarriage is halfway decent, but
one of the steering clutch/brakes is on its last legs (yeah, just one, go
figure... ).  It's manageable, as you can plan many of your turns to use
only the good clutch.  Last time I worked it good was this past winter,
moving large piles of snow back to make room for more.  It wanted some
choke even when fully warm, and it wasn't making full power.  Power jet
adjustments didn't help at all.  Then I discovered the metal-jacketed
ignition coil has a small hole in it, and all the oil has leaked out.  I
think I found my power problem.  You can keep an engine running with a weak
spark if you richen the mixture.

Now that Round Tuit.  My employer just acquired a very small company, a
former competitor, located out in Montana (we are in Rhode Island) and I
spent 26 days in Bozeman over the past couple months training, planning,
organizing, packing, supervising riggers and coordinating truckers and on
and on.  Now we are moving equipment and walls and offices around in our RI
building to make room for the new-to-us manufacturing equipment.  There are
at least a few things, notably a 60-ton Bliss press weighing 14,000lb, that
are older than my JD crawler.  I am getting my fill of wrenching old iron
12 hours a day, it just isn't tractors.

And for fun, I'm renovating an old house that my wife and I purchased as an
investment.  I will have ample opportunities to work my crawler over there
to renovate some horse pasture land that's probably ten years fallow and
rapidly returning to the forest.

SO


On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Dennis Johnson <moscowengnr at outlook.com>
wrote:

> My MF35 Deluxe is waiting for me to find time to work on the lift. Changed
> oil in it few weeks ago, but still have problem with lift not working after
> 10 to 15 minutes of use.
>
> Problem is that I need to fix my throttle linkage on my Bolins 1502H first
> to make room for the MF35. It was a flood tractor that was under water in
> some hurricane before I got it, and some linkage parts "froze" in place.
> Finally got some apart, but not all of them. Debating on putting them
> together and seeing if what I got free is enough to get reverse speed
> reasonable. Also need to find new springs and a hook base for the "go to
> neutral" feature when you take your foot off the pedal.
>
> Another problem is getting my 81 C30 dully engine back together so I can
> work on sister-in-laws Envoy engine, and also start to overhaul the C30
> transmission. All that stuff is taking up shop space.
>
> Other big problem is that I have been stuck in office with paperwork so I
> can't get to the garage for any of these projects.
>
> Dennis
>
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