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my 58 dexta starts great ,she fires and runs sweet and uses little to no oil...she has good power,she reg pulls large link boxes full of wood out of a hilly/wet bog..so im just wondering why theres smoke coming out of the engine breather pipe ..any ideas chaps ?? :P is the engine needing a rebuild ?...

And then a few days turning a cement mixer ,for the plaster of the new shed ..handy Aule girl our dexta

Just before the bad weather set in we cleared a old piece of bog ground for fencing and grazing come the spring , quite a bit of lumber down there so I thought the dexta would be perfect for drawing it up out ,she performed faultlessly pulling her weight in logs time and time again ,she really did e...

My 59 dexta has recently developed a growling noise from the rear end when in gear , I recently changed all off the oils and now wonder is it due to this ?have I used to thick a oil? I used the same oil that the engine and transmission used , 10/40 diesel mineral oil.Ive checked the level with the a...

I decided to take a walk down the fields of my grandas farm to an old abandoned shed/house from manys years ago,i crawled through the under growth and managed to push open the door...and this is what I discovered..enjoy http://i1358.photobucket.com/albums/q775/gjsteed/downeys_zpsbe29c61e.jpg somewh...

im hoping some one could point me in the right direction as to how I register my dexta,ive managed to find the original log book and also now know the reg so im hoping its a straight forward matter ,she was last taxed in 1971... many thanks ps remember im in northern Ireland,so things may differ ove...

i bought one of these at my local steam rally the other day,they seem to be well made and more than happy with the £20 price tag.i havnt got round to fitting it yet but il update this post once fitted..

Ive been having a rumage around a few more old sheds and thought id pull this international harvester/reaper out and hook it up to the dexta,its in great nick and runs well,its a pretty dangerous piece of machinery it would soon nip a few fingers off if one wasnt carefull !! http://i1358.photobucket...

well its been a good few months now since the old girl was rescued from rot and ruin and im pleased to say shes going strong,ive managed to sort the cold starting out on her,give her a engine and gear box oil change (axle oil change coming soon)fixed a few leaky fuel pipes,serviced the air filter/oi...

thanks lads ...ive set a date in my diary to change it next week end...so il have to make sure ive enough old containers to drain the oil into,dont want a bp like incident on the shed floor !!

hey gents,after giving the engine and gear box a oil change its time to move on to the rear axle/hydraulics oil change..ive been having a look around but cant seem to find a good "how to" ..would anyone care to shed some light on the procedure ?? thanks in advance. http://i1358.photobucket.com/album...

thought id post a wee vid of the dexta in her natural habitat ..lol

i was having a nosey in a few old sheds of my late granda and i found this piece of machinery ..a scoop type thing(still with some barley seed in it lol),at first i thought it was a small link box but it sits the other way round, mmmmm what do you think?? http://i1358.photobucket.com/albums/q775/gj...

Fires up instant or takes a couple turn overs to fire up? is it worth to clean out the atomiser on the inlet manifold? since my tractor was addicted to easy start and it takes about 2-3 attempts on using the heater to get her going :? Takes a few cranks, but she will start . When I first started lo...

An absolute beauty of a tractor. I have the same loader on mine, really finishes the tractor off i think. Whats it like starting from cold? Thank you verymuch,she was addicted to easy start for a long time my father told me, but after replacing the glow plug/heater button and cleaning out the atomi...

Mmmmmmm oven cleaner ?? I suppose it makes sense ,if it can shift baked on lasagne I'm sure it could shift a few mm of oil ! Lol that'll be my Saturday job for next week,I think the wife is working so it's a "me" day lol

10/4 wee59dexta ! Theirs usually one around July in Ballymena show grounds , not sure of the exact date... On the subject of power washing her , I was a bit unsure of power washing the engine incase I may do damage to her, what do you guys suggest ? Maybe buy a big tin of gunk or something simalar ?...

Looks very nice 8) But how it is so rusty? EnFo stamp in my Dexta is also upside-down http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i12/isolaatta/Dexta%20-60/kas9_zpsb13a960c.jpg I guess she's had an hard aule life,my mum says when she was growing up there was never a day she wasn't started,then when she got l...

Have you any other pics to show us, inc under the bonnet? It's always interesting to see original tractors. :wink: http://i1358.photobucket.com/albums/q775/gjsteed/876C39EF-04D7-412F-8969-2A08DA917153-983-0000010F1A6B6918_zpsd06c346c.jpg :wink: Why is EnFo upside down?? Very mysterious! :scratchhea...

58 dexta with front loader here just outside ballymena co antrim

Have you any other pics to show us, inc under the bonnet? It's always interesting to see original tractors. :wink: heres a few more pics i took today,maybe not the best of quality but you get the picture,, http://i1358.photobucket.com/albums/q775/gjsteed/C07B1AE9-0F19-444B-A4EB-ACBCA9FF68B9-983-000...

I used this http://www.wynnoil.co.uk/products-wynns-oil-engine-flush.htm I'd like to add that it really did shift some gunk,because even the first oil change I done on her the other week didn't produce this amount of gunk , I warmed the engine well up for around an hour then I poured this in to her ...

Yeah sure il take a few and post them next time I'm out messing about with her

Thanks lads for your advice ,but it has come to late , sighhhhh I couldn't help my self and used it today,it produced porridge like gunk when draining the oil out , and as for the gauze in below the sump,that took some cleaning with a small stiff brush in a bucket of petrol... so far everything is o...

Is the nut that holds the pipe in place tight ? (But not to tight,you may run the threads!) Maybe you have put it on the wrong threads and now the copper pipe isn't seated right ..double check everything for piece of mind !