[AT] Was Case VAC throttle spring thingy...Now filters

Wed May 15 06:22:33 PDT 2019

In this case I often like to go to http://wixfilters.com/ and look at the filter specs. I don’t know about the VAC and it’s filter specifics so can’t comment on it specifically.

Several years ago I acquired an old 93 Mercury Sable that the kids drove to high school. I later bought and fixed up a few Toyota Camry’s (3 to date) and wife has a Avalon. I did some looking and the specs on the Mercury filter were the same as the Toyota. The only difference was the can size was shorter on the Toyota. Otherwise micron rating, oil pressure bypass, gasket, etc. were all the same. I did a little more checking and the filter on my 20HP Kohler on my Exmark mower can use that same filter. So now I order Wix (because I think they’re a quality filter) filters in bulk from Rock Auto. Saves me from having 4 different ones on the shelf now.  ☺

Brad

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I see a minor "farmer design change" in that VAC's near future...  :-)
I did an oil and filter change on it yesterday and about did a Fred Sanford over the price of the filter at NAPA ($25 and change plus tax). I can buy a filter for my old F-150 for about $4... The VAC uses the same filter as my Allis C (Fram # C-159 but I don't usually buy Fram filters) and I was out of them. The ones I was using I bought years ago. I came home and started looking on-line but didn't find anything a lot cheaper. I first looked at the local Rural King farm store but they didn't even have a spot on the shelf for them. Seems odd considering how many Allis tractors used them.
I did an oil and filter change on my Ferguson TO-20 last week and that filter was about $8. I did have to make a gasket for that cover plate you take off to change the internal filter. Rural King did have that filter.

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On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 3:51 AM Jim Becker <mr.jebecker at gmail.com<mailto:mr.jebecker at gmail.com>> wrote:
Messick’s, a CaseIH dealer, shows the part superceded by A30339 and it lists for $46.58.  Their description just says “spring”.

Jim Becker

From: Spencer Yost
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 8:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [AT] Case VAC throttle spring thingy...

If you read closely, the picture is of a used spring, but you are purchasing a new spring. $55 is still awful steep though. I mainly included the link so that you would know the name is apparently simply “foot spring”. Not very creative if you ask me :-)
Spencer Yost

On May 14, 2019, at 8:57 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
It's even worse than that... I looked at it very closely and I am sure it is already broken and is being held in place with a piece of twisted baling wire...
We have bought a handful of things from them over the years and while they were high we never had any problems with anything. I have to wonder if this is a glitch and maybe the $55 is for the lever assembly, not just the spring?
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Well, I did have one problem... We bought a set of nice rims off of a Ford 8000 but ended up not using them. The problem was local... I put them out for sale and someone (I assume a scrapper) just loaded them up one day. Hardly Robert's fault.  :-)

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On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 8:30 PM <bloomis at charter.net> wrote:
Holy smokes. At $55 a pop for a pre-rusted out spring no wonder they are all broken at shows.
Bradford

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It is because the search engines are not too adaptive. You have to search for “thingy, spring”. :-)

Could this be it,

https://www.robertstractor.com/Case-vac-Foot-Spring_p_3882.html

Spencer Yost

On May 14, 2019, at 4:44 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
You will notice that I didn't use the correct name for the throttle thingy, that is because I don't remember it and what it is called is my question.  :-)
It is an odd spring that goes at the intersection of the hand throttle and the foot accelerator linkages. It has hooks that hook over the levers and it makes a circle or two around the stud that the levers mount to. That convergence of linkages is what allows the two feeds to operate separately.
The one on my non-running VAC is also broken and I once did some looking at a tractor show and it was broken on several VAC's at the show. Must have been a weak point, huh?  :-)
Anywho, I can't search for it unless I have a better name than "spring thingy"...

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