Big Jim wrote:You sir are keeping me from getting lazy about going through my machine. That oil pick up screen was enough to put the "dump the sump" and pull the screen at the top of the list. Was just going to change the filter and oil and live with it until I hook up my new from india gen, oil pressure guage and see what it was. Not no more.
I really enjoy reading about your problem solving ways. But when It came to a battery spacer I'm going to use a piece of wood. Saves my ammo can/ tool kit from getting covered in battery junk over time. Please don't stop posting these are the posts I enjoy reading. Thanks again. Big Jim
Thanks again Jim.
I also scooped out handfuls of oil sludge from the bottom of the sump. I think it's worth pulling that pickup out when you give it a service, though my tractor had a particularly bad case of nasty oil. There's a bypass valve in the pickup for if it's all clogged up. It's a very small valve though.
I also cracked the drain bungs for the trans and diff to see if there was any water in them. The trans certainly has a bit of rust colour to it but it feels nice. The rear end oil came out about the consistency of cake mix, I've never seen anything like it. I've ordered 60L of transoil, that was a painful amount of money to part with!
I haven't really been able to drive it because the lower hose leaks like a sieve. It looked pretty bad on the outside, but geez the inside! I've never seen a hose this buggered!
I'm sure you guys can relate but I often feel like I'm the only person in the world who does hoseclamps up in a way that makes them easy to get back off. This was ridiculous, the radiator has been out for repair at some stage and they did up this clamp with the front sheetmetal off. I had to pull the bonnet off but I eventually got the clamp off using a 1/4" ratchet with a flat head bit in it. Naturally the screw was already mangled. It must have taken me about 45 minutes!
Flushing the block out I could tell the thermostat was stuck open. I totally destroyed it getting the remains out. I was surprised to find it just takes a universal 54mm thermostat and funnily enough, a package arrived with a new one the morning I pulled this one out but that's for my girlfriends work car. I've ordered another 180f/82c thermostat and have just put it together with no thermostat for now.
I fitted a 50 cal ammo box to the side, there was 2 unused bolt holes so it mounts with those and is up as high as possible. The loader arm just rubs on it when you push on things a certain way with it right up. I think it will be okay, I'll weld a little spacer in so the arm can't slide across as far.
I rewired the lights, it had this hokey switch that didn't work and a bunch of nasty wiring. I soldered it back into the factory loom so the switch around the key does the lights again.
Both lights worked great initially but a couple of days later they're both blown. Gotta expect that with such old lights I guess.
I pulled the banjo bolt out of the injector pump level drain and squirted some engine oil in there. As it's been sitting so long I couldn't be sure the level is a correct and in the shaft seal seems to leak a bit. I squirted a heap in there to get the old stuff out, it was pretty cloudy and brown so I'm glad I did that.
I finally got to have a bit of a play with the tractor. I pushed up some piles of greenwaste and attempted to grade the driveway. Boy has it got some pushing power, with a weight on the back and water in the tyres I reckon it'd be unstoppable! Though a diff lock would be nice. The oil pressure and temperature gauges don't work so I was paranoid about engine temperature because cooling systems have often been the bane of my life. I guess I had nothing to worry about here, a whole 46°c coolant temp after all that messing about!
I put a multimeter on it and the charging system isn't working. I'm not sure right now but I might convert it to negative earth and an alternator. Also I really need to sort the brakes. The left one doesn't work and the ratchet for the handbrake slips, though the blade makes a good handbrake if you're pointing down hill!
