Pat
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Love that Turbo whistleBearCreek Majors wrote:So this Power Major is one of the four tractors we drug home last summer, it was mostly an organ donor as the engine was partially disassembled and tight from sitting outside. The 6D is the 150 hp junkyard engine I picked up last fall, and the row crop I got from a real nice guy over in Minnesota a few weeks ago. Sat afternoon we drug the tractor in the shop, pulled off everything from the bell housing forward and set in the 6D. Sun we fab’ed up the frame rails and front engine mount, set the row crop under it and got enough parts on it that we could run it around the yard for a few minutes. Low range has a squeal to it and the hydraulics aren’t working, so we got quite a bit of work to do yet, and I planed on splitting it back apart to put heavier springs in the clutch yet. This weekend was just the fab up to see what else needs to be addressed.
Probably the first time this tractor has moved under its own power in 20 years or more.
Pat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIkuCrqZvEo
Hey Pat, if it was these guys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8nyrP8bclI Then it will have had a good workout (There's another steamer on the opposite site of the pulley!)BearCreek Majors wrote: but we have never had it up to temp yet, and I was told the Amish were using it on a saw mill, so it probably never got a workout.
Pat
Hi oehrickoehrick wrote:Hey Pat, if it was these guys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8nyrP8bclI Then it will have had a good workout (There's another steamer on the opposite site of the pulley!)BearCreek Majors wrote: but we have never had it up to temp yet, and I was told the Amish were using it on a saw mill, so it probably never got a workout.
Pat
Sounds like good progress being made,thanks for the Mill i/d, not a make I've encountered across the pond here.
Hioehrick wrote:Hi Robert
Yes, I've never seen sawing like it, the exhaust coming out in square lumps and that sawyer doesn't need a computer either;) I think those big Walnut trunks would stall even a 6 cylinder Major,something half that size might give a comprehensive de-coke though.
We don't have that type of saw in the UK (well if we did I don't know of one which has survived) I've been really enjoying them on U Tube - The Phillips saw & Box Factory has become another favourite, my main interest in life is stationary steam engines....
My grandfather was a great finder out of things and would have loved the internet - went too early too.
BTW Pat, I saw a pic the other day of a conversion with the wishbone turned round and anchored back to the tombstone - can't remember where but now you've joined the trycycle brigade its doesn't matter............
Do you have any problems with the front wheels? It looks like they're pretty close to the "tombstone"BearCreek Majors wrote:We did a bunch of work to the Power Major again this weekend. I finally made a good tie rod from two off an old Gleaner combine, as the ball joints were to small I had to make some tapered bushings as well. we also got all the radiator hoses installed, a fan, V belt, and got some antifreeze in it. we started it up and moved some stuff around the yard and just played with it a little to see how everything was going to work, and found a few problems rite away. first problem is it looks like this motor is bad, after we got it outside and running it seemed to get noisy, after a while we realized the thermostat wasn't opening, replaced it, and it then came up to temp and circulated through the radiator. But it looks like this thing was run hot and that's why it ended up in the scrapyard, it never quit smoking, would limp real bad on a cylinder or two, and eventually began pushing oil out the exhaust, (this could also be a bad seal in the turbo). we are still running it but we will probably do a compression test on it soon to see what is happening. If it ends up being bad the extra 6D from the Super Six will go in it, and most likely with that turbo setup.
Soon after we got it running we realized we had no hydraulics ether, then we realized that the lid was not bolted down tight, after we popped it off we realized there was no pump in it at all! I have no more spares as the 54 got the last one, so we ran over to one of the neighbors that has a major out behind the barn that is little more than a pile of bare casting, but the pump was still in it and looks good. we now have it installed but I still need to braze up the cover that holds the screen up in place, these quite commonly freeze hard enough here to crack them, I have several of them that are split and busted up.
We also broke down the rear tires to put on some better ones, cleaned up the inside of the rims and used up several old rattle cans of spray paint on them, we just have to put the wheels on after the pant dries a little.
Do you have any problems with the front wheels? It looks like they're pretty close to the "tombstone"BearCreek Majors wrote:We did a bunch of work to the Power Major again this weekend. I finally made a good tie rod from two off an old Gleaner combine, as the ball joints were to small I had to make some tapered bushings as well. we also got all the radiator hoses installed, a fan, V belt, and got some antifreeze in it. we started it up and moved some stuff around the yard and just played with it a little to see how everything was going to work, and found a few problems rite away. first problem is it looks like this motor is bad, after we got it outside and running it seemed to get noisy, after a while we realized the thermostat wasn't opening, replaced it, and it then came up to temp and circulated through the radiator. But it looks like this thing was run hot and that's why it ended up in the scrapyard, it never quit smoking, would limp real bad on a cylinder or two, and eventually began pushing oil out the exhaust, (this could also be a bad seal in the turbo). we are still running it but we will probably do a compression test on it soon to see what is happening. If it ends up being bad the extra 6D from the Super Six will go in it, and most likely with that turbo setup.
Soon after we got it running we realized we had no hydraulics ether, then we realized that the lid was not bolted down tight, after we popped it off we realized there was no pump in it at all! I have no more spares as the 54 got the last one, so we ran over to one of the neighbors that has a major out behind the barn that is little more than a pile of bare casting, but the pump was still in it and looks good. we now have it installed but I still need to braze up the cover that holds the screen up in place, these quite commonly freeze hard enough here to crack them, I have several of them that are split and busted up.
We also broke down the rear tires to put on some better ones, cleaned up the inside of the rims and used up several old rattle cans of spray paint on them, we just have to put the wheels on after the pant dries a little.