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Sir
Pull the radiator and take it in to be re-done. The guts or more than likely
full of build up. Take water pump off and check the impeller. Don't take anymore changes of destroying your engine.

Myassitis From Missouri

Sir I also have a 555A and have delt with numerous leaks. My first impression is this: It has to be going someplace and the obvious is on the ground. The most common is a coupling under the belly pan which from vibration will develope a small crack. It's the one coming from and directly off the pump...

I busted a hydrolic hose on my 555A crawler loader. Of course it had to be one which looks impossible to get too. If you sitting in the operators seat it's to your left at knee high behind a cover plate and numerous steel lines. I have removed the main pin for the large ram but how in the heck does ...

BULL No problem. I just went through this myself. Not only are parts available from Deere (Erb Equipment) but other on line sites as well. Yes to the manual. Thats a must. Get your dozer in the shed (clean it up with a pressure washer first) and get it on jacks. I use a coupler of 20 toner's but 10 ...

Digitup Thanks for the reply. Duck hunting just ok for me. My biggest problem is working for a living instead of sitting in my duck blind. Just don't kill many ducks at the office. Retiring from my Government job in April of 2009 then I'll have more time. I'm going to study your e-mail in detail thi...

Digitup Haven't heard from you lately. As you may recall I had to replace seals and bearings on my crawler's final drive and you were a great help. Everything went well except I did not tighten the set screw in the brake drum which pushed back and ruptured the internal hydrolic line to the streeing ...

Hey Digitup I finally got around to working on my 555A crawler loader. You hit it right on the button as to what was proberly wrong. The right hand streeing clutch pressure hose (internal) was ruptured. When we rebuilt the final drive we did not tighten the set screw/bolt into the clutch drum. I'm p...

Posted a message to you on my original post. Se finale drive.

Thanks
Jim

Digitup Thanks for the reply, you always come thru. However you may have misunderstood my problem. After replacing all bearings and seals we re-installed the finale drive. That was after we had removed the drive without removing the set screw. (I got your book after it was removed). Bearings and sea...

I had too replace all seals & Bearings on the "right finale drive" for my 1988 JD 555A. No problem pushing just leaking oil bad. I have completed the work which not to bad, just very heavy parts to deal with. The problem now is "the right drive will not pull now". All I had before was a leak. What d...

Digitup
I'm sure it does. Let me know how to get it to you. I'm in the office today
(8/14/06) but will look tonite. I have your e-mail if it's still the same.

Myassitis

I finally managed to remove the final drive from my 555A. Having never worked on heavy equipment before it was a learning experence for sure. Actually I have been working on other equipment, tractors mainly, plus it's been high 90's and over 100 a number of days. It looks as though I will need to re...

Digitup Thanks for info on my 555A. No, I haven't made repairs yet. I have rebuilt the clutch & Fuel injecter pump on my 1957 Fordson Major. Rebuilt my old brush hog and now having problems with the fuel pump on the Fordson, right before haying time. Keeps blowing diaphams and leaking diesel fuel in...

Joe T.
I have a 555A crawler (Bucket). I have no words of wisdom for you, but so far have did all my own repairs, just not tranmission. Currently trying to reseal/bearings etc. on final drives. When you have any wisdom of your own please share.

Thanks
Jim Boettcher

Ok, its not green but I purchased a TD40 Crawler with bad engine which was not original. It was a International Truck engine with a standard transmission, clutch and presure plate bolted to the origenal TD40 transmission. Worked fine until old engine blew. What would be a recomendation for a cheap r...