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You mentioned the balancer shaft berrings when the berrings are sloppy it is a good idea to replce them as when the berrings slap around in there they have a tendency to turn that berring a little then the oil jurnal shuts off leaving the balancer to run dryand I dont have to mention what happens ne...

Nothin rong with using your deere instead of your back I would do damn near any thing to get out of gardening !!.I got a 99 Haritage this spring and no place to go with it.Digitup.

Robert In Texas your 350C is a first year build for this series 1975 there where several aplications for wide stance-standard track build as these little deeres would side hill like no other crawler could and in some marsh vegetable farms these were and still are the only machine that could ride the...

Up here the Deere industrial guys are verry compeditive in price even the CAT guys will cut prices seems they dont want the sale to leave the shop I tryed the Breco and the Itala track people that are to be the cheep guys Deere matched it and cat was 5% more but the quality is in the Deere and Cat t...

If you are juet replaceing the liners this is no big thing to do DONT pull the engine for just liners and piston replacement.And Dont run that crawler any more than is needed to get to the shop as the crank berrings could gum up and become a problem .The oil pump is on the front of the block so chec...

SMs or Survice manuals are dealer exclusive manuals TMs orTech manuals are for any one to use and are easyer to understand with little or no help in some areas { if tech manual fails take it to the dealer attatude} . There is a web site to get into this info as well There is also a problem solving s...

I know what you mean about the air conditioning it is nice.Guys on here talk about doing work with an old crawler like my 40C I got that to remind me of how far we have came My 650H is bad enough after 8 hours of bouncen around in it and it is enough! And in this area if you dont have late modle equ...

There you go Deerefred the article from Mariner states his letter number combonation in front of serial number is T5E3M and yours isT5F3M find the difference in E&F it wont be much but somthing in the build is different. Digitup.

I put close to 20 thousand hours on a 550.a 550A and 550B dozers I had good luck with all of them and the B was the one that I did not have very long so the others had 8000 hours of good runing each and verry little down time.Others have complained about this model to me though and I tell them great...

Tx deere your lower seal is an oring seal but it will be either a different colour or will be dabed with a spesific color of paint and there should be instructions with the liner kit as one seal is more heat resistant than the other[ I think that the top oring will take more heat] there should be in...

It refers to the build or line information like track width and grouser configuration options and sepcifics like country of sale [Up here in Canada dual batterys and cold weather start are standard issue or they would not sell them ] And the latest is safty specks of original sale country or state I...

The serial number list you are looking for is this for November 1964 start and 1965 #10001 to 16159 for1966 to#42766 for 1967 to#64890 *Then for 1968*start at#65000 to82275 for1969 to# 102143 for1970 to#117587 Sept 1970 Bs started at#117588 In 68 there was a transmision up grade this was considered ...

The serial numbers for the 450 crawlers are as follows 10001 to 16159-1965, to 42766-1966,to 64999-1967,to 82275-1968,up to 102143-1969, the last 450 produced in 1970 was 117587 after this 450.Bs in Sept 20th 1970 production record. Digitup.

Elaine when they are in that clutch houseing look to see if there is a plug in the bottom this is probably the moisture retention problem as the wide tracks were always too the top of the tracks in mud most owners pluged the lower hole with either a thread in plug or a cork or rubber plug instaled A...

Millertym I noticed your contemplateing makeing fenders My one old 40c has diamond plate fenders on it allready and they are the old pattern of diamond plate The old guy that collects crawlers north of me says that these look like speck built fenders but I would rather have fenders like the later 40...