finished discing a paddock yesterday, all ready for sowing unhooked the disc's and backed up to the drill, then noticed a few drips of oil on the ground under the tractor as I was setting the coulter height
slid in under and checked it out The rear coupling for the front driveshaft has a splined collar with a couple of roll pins through it to keep it in place one of those roll pins had worked it's way out and had done an excellent job of latheing a semicircle 10mm wide 50mm long right up through the bottom of the gearbox luckily it had only worn through in one small place right at the top - g/box still had a lot of oil in it - unhooked it from the drill and left it on the loading bank for the local truckie to pick up and bring home at first light this morning todays job when it gets here is to manufacture a plate and drill and tap a couple of bolt holes into the g/box, find some thick cork and seal it up again
bubbles244,
Apr 17, 6:12am
automotive urethane , the same stuff they use to glue in car windscreens.
bill-robinson,
Apr 17, 6:24am
put lock wire through the roll pina as well. stops them coming out.
skin1235,
Apr 17, 11:04am
cut 2 arc's out of thick cork with a bit left over for 'nip', squeezed them in to stop the oil, generous coating of silaflex on the new plate and bolted the shaft guard back up - was able to use the shaft guard bolt holes so didn't have to drill and tap new 2 hrs later no fresh drips on ground so it's heading back up the gully after lunch, another 2 small paddocks to disc and sow yet - but I will thread a lock wire through the new rollpin - never thought of that
thunderbolt,
Apr 17, 11:20am
Its great to see between all the narking, handbagging and general brianless banter, that a simple and helpfull idea is passed on and utilized.
skin1235,
Apr 17, 6:12pm
all I can report is that the rollpin is now wired in, the tractor has done 6 jolting thumping hrs hauling a set of swamp discs across logs, drains, old man rushes, nigger head, toitoi and gorse, it has tried to throw me out of the cab at least a dozen times, has been so stuck even chaining a railway sleeper to the rears wouldn't get it out, so had to hook another tractor to a long longchain so he could pull me out from dry ground ie it has done some yards this afternoon the paddocks are now ready for a couple of days drying before getting limed and then rotary hoed
so far it is holding oil, it has no sign of leakage
thats Thrushes for ya, have had them start a nest on the manifold while the tractor was parked while milking, soon as I fired it up I could smell scorched hay odours so shut it down and checked, couple of large handfuls of hay later and your pic was avoided, most tractor wreckers have a long row of burnt out hulks
bellky,
Apr 18, 2:15pm
That one looks like a burn out hulk, rather than a burnt out hulk!
skin1235,
Apr 18, 2:44pm
yep bellky, sure, you see smoke and immediately think wooooow a burnout
pollymay,
Apr 18, 2:52pm
It is in fact doing a burnout
skin1235,
Apr 18, 2:55pm
lol, are you sure, wouldn't have thought a fergy would manage that, or get smoke in a dirt paddock my respect for fergy's has risen above ankle height
pollymay,
Apr 18, 2:57pm
They'd be using the one side diff brake to hold one big tyre and spin the other. We used to have a special tractor for the purpose
Could also use bearing lock from locktight, its used to lock bearings to shafts, to hold the roll pin in with the wire aswell.
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