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Hi, I know about Jorde's, and I know there stuff is good, but I don't need to contact them for anything for myself. Since my wife has her own screenprinting and sign shop, I just make up my own stuff as I need it. Handy! :) What I was thinking is that the reverser is a fairly rare item on a wheel tr...

Hi, Boy, it can be really hard on the rear ends. I saw a lot of 435's with toasted rear gears when I was a kid. Deere made an Ag version of the 430W (row-crop utility) with the Diesel they used in the 440's in it, and called it the 435. It was advertised as a HAYING tractor, and even came with a 100...

Hi, My 420c still has the decal attached to the left side battery box sheetmetal. I don't recall the exact wording, but it basically amounts to 'if you work the reverser lever without using the master clutch you will be screwed'. I'll write down the actual text and post it over the weekend. Maybe I ...

Hi, Some combustion chamber shapes and valve types are designed to scavenge the cylinder of exhaust gases with a specific about of backpressure. Note the operative word here: Some. As in the things have to be designed with malice aforethought to having that backpressure. Most 4-cycle recriprocating ...

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Provided that it's still there - and working - of course. I've seen many that weren't.....

Stan

Hi, I don't know how you've managed to keep the clutch discs in the reverser working while using it to power shift between forward and reverse. Every one I ever saw that was run like that would up with badly bent ears (the metal tabs on the clutch discs) that simply kept the reverser from working at...

Hi, Well, it would depend on the reverser style you have. I know that the early 440s' had the differential, or clutch (it's called by both names), type reverser, which has no neutral position and requires that you have the main clutch disengaged and be fully stopped before throwing the reverser leve...

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I'd be up for doing the work. I sent you a PM with my address in it. Unless someone else has already spoken up for the job, that is.

Stan

Hi, I used to have a 350, which was kept in the barn when I lived in upstate NY. I'd be able to start it well enough down to 0 deg F or so. At that point, she'd try to start, but just puff the white smoke and only keep going with help from the starter. It'd drive me out of the barn, the smoke that i...

Hi, The original blade for the MC is pretty light, what I would call a 'barn scraper' blade. As the machine grew up, the blades became progressively heavier, and the tracks became longer and heavier to go along with them. The 40 gained a fourth roller, and then a fifth, while the blade becamer heavi...

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Gald it was that easy. Wiring harness shorts can sometimes be a bear to track down.

Ironically, I had the temperature sender in my old daily driver car (90 Ford LTD Wagon) go out on the way home on Friday, so I also had to change out a sender this weekend.

Later!

Stan

Hi, Bad sender or a shorted wire. Most senders work by supplying voltage to the gauge, thru the gauge and into the sender. When cold, the resistance is high, and the current flow thru the gauge is low and so it will have little deflection - reading on the cold side. As the engine warms, the sender l...

Hi, Yeah, it's always been that way. We had a good, large farm, customer back in the 70's that was an IH guy but loved the Deere 4020 (and follow-ons) line. So, every year he'd order a new Deere painted IH red and white. We'd have a truck letter painter re-do that part in whatever the current IH sty...

Hi, Andrew, I like the way that the snowplows keep changing style, color and even go from tracks to wheels and back again! Must be magic. Have you been reading Harry Potter and taking things a little too literally???? :P Enjoy the snow. I'm hoping for some down here in Carolina so I can show the nei...

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Only 95k Euros. Cheap!

I think I'll stick with my ancient Naked Goldwings, though I'd love to have a diesel bike.

As I can pick up all the Old Gold I want for under $1k dollars each, I can go thru a lot of them for the price of one of these.

Stan