[AT] I need a little education on these Case VAC's

[Indiana Robinson]

The little Case VAC is ready for the summers errand work with everything
filled with clean lube down to and including the generator and the
distributor.
As you can see from the attached picture the inside of the tranny was a lot
better looking than I was expecting as I was draining that crappy gunk out
of it.
It's my trailer puller, wagon mover and a "working clothes" show tractor.
It stayed home last year as I had some medical issues  but I hope to take
it to a few shows this summer.


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[image: image.png]

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:20 PM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Jim, that makes perfect sense. I was wondering about steering
> gearbox lubrication. There were no fill, drain or level plugs so I was
> wondering if it was to receive grease from one of the 3 fittings on the
> column / gearbox. The manual just ignored any lubrication of the gearbox
> other than those 3 fittings.
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> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:26 AM Jim Becker <mr.jebecker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Farmer,
>> I know even less about the Case VAC than you do.  However, I gleaned this
>> from looking at a cross sectional view.  It appears that the steering gear
>> is open into the torque tube.  That made me wonder how the steering gear
>> got any lubrication.  From a closer look, it appears the main shaft has an
>> oil slinger directly under the sector gear.  If that is the case, that
>> section needs to have oil in it.  Additionally, it is probably fairly fussy
>> about the proper level. There has to be enough oil to wet the slinger but
>> not so much that it keeps the oil from being properly slung.
>>
>> Again, this is just what I could guess from looking at one diagram.  The
>> service manual, or even a parts catalog should be able to confirm or refute.
>>
>> Jim Becker
>>
>> *From:* Indiana Robinson
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 15, 2019 10:24 PM
>> *To:* at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> *Subject:* [AT] I need a little education on these Case VAC's
>>
>> I've had these 2 Case VACs (one running and driving decent and one apart
>> and not running) for a number of years  but have not done much work on
>> either of them beyond stuff like tire work and superficial things on the
>> running one.
>> When it comes down to messing with the innards I'm finding things a
>> little alien. The engine is of course fairly cut and dried and the owners
>> manual (PDF) covers it fairly well. At this point the engine of the running
>> one doesn't need anything but a bit of tweaking in the governor department.
>> No smoke, no noises. I have a DVD of the parts manual here "someplace" but
>> it has slipped under something else... I don't have a "service" manual for
>> this one yet.
>> As I said it is kind of alien to me. Before I bought these two VACs (and
>> a VAI that I acquired for son Scott) I had never even driven a Case
>> Tractor. My background was with Fords and Ferguson and Massey Fergusons and
>> Farmalls and several Allis models etc.
>> As I understand it there are three compartments behind the engine, the
>> belt pulley / hydraulic pump section, the torque tube section and the
>> trans-axle section. Each of the three sections have their own drain plug
>> and fill plug. My information gap is are all three sections sealed
>> completely from each other or do the torque and trans-axle share lube. Is
>> there anything in the torque tube besides the main shaft? I wouldn't think
>> so. On about everything else I have the main shaft runs in a dry zone. Not
>> sure why this one is wet?
>> The pulley / pump section calls for 10 weight oil, the torque tube calls
>> for the same thing as the trans-axle.
>> Maybe it's just been too long of a day...  :-)
>>
>>
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>> Francis Robinson
>> aka "farmer"
>> Central Indiana USA
>> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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