[AT] Case VAC throttle spring thingy...

[Indiana Robinson]

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> 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 Messick’s, a CaseIH dealer, shows the part superceded by A30339 and it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
> *To:* Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
> *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?
> .
> 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.  :-)
>
> .
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> *On Behalf Of *Spencer
>> Yost
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 14, 2019 3:58 PM
>> *To:* Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <
>> at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: [AT] Case VAC throttle spring thingy...
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>> Francis Robinson
>> aka "farmer"
>> Central Indiana USA
>> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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