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Hey Gus, Figured I'd post this question in this part of your rebuild thread. I'm about to put my steering clutch stuff together and am curious as to how you get the brake rods up through their respective hole in the housing. It seems as though you will have to bend the rod. Hopefully you or someone ...

I'm not 100% on this (mine isn't running yet) but there is a turnbuckle on the rod that goes from the clutch pedal and up to throwout bearing linkage (clutch fork if you want to call it that).
That should give you some adjustment.

Yep, that's a shame he got rid of it. Probably nothing a welder and some steel couldn't have fixed and of course that green stuff haha.

Looks nice John. Good job.
Do you have the backhoe for it too? I think that's a hoe mount on the back.

Well I kinda took you guy's advice. The first thing I did was slightly loosen the main bearing cap bolts and tried the crank, there was no change. My next thought was that something happened with the oil pump so I pulled the front cover and tried the crank and no change. As I was staring at the flyw...

Upon receiving my clutch setting tool friday from lavoy I began to set my clutch. I couldn't get to the last finger to adjust it so I went to roll the engine and this is where the problem began. Up to this point I was able to turn the engine by hand by using the flywheel. This wasn't the case this t...

Looking good and moving along fast gus.
Keep the good pics coming.
Wish mine was this far along.

Exactly what I needed.
Thanks Iron Popper

I looked through the service manual and cannot find any place that refers to using the pressure plate tool that Lavoy sells. If I'm missing it could someone point to the page/section it's in. If it isn't outlined in the manual could someone give me a walkthrough of how it's done (with pics would be ...

Merry Christmas to everyone.
Special thanks to Lavoy for this site and for hooking me up with a clutch kit for my 440 for christmas.

So my grandpa's 440 I acquired doesn't have the tag with the serial number so I don't have a definite on the year but I'm 99% its a 59. I was working on the motor last night and started noticing numbers in various places so I wrote them down and maybe someone can give me some info based on those num...

To my knowledge and according to my parts book, the 440ICD had 2 in the front and an optional rear light.
I could be wrong though.

Tons of awesome pictures Gus. I ran into the same thing with the quills in your part 2 thread. I can't wait to get more paint on mine, but that probably won't happen until the weather gets better in the spring. What is the yellow inside the steering clutch housings? Is that just primer or something ...

As some of you may know from my "Show and Tell" thread, I've been working on the bottom rollers on my 440. The problem I've ran into is that the out cap (part that holds the seal) has become full of dirt over time. I got the caps off on 1 roller and the others I haven't been quite as successful. So ...

At this point, I have a few comments and suggestions for those thinking about doing this. What you're digging into is 50++ yrs old and may not have ever been looked at since new. Before reassembly: Look into EVERYTHING (thank you for this, Lavoy, you saved my butt on a couple of things I wouldn't h...