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Reasonably sure that pedal is cast steel, not cast iron. Drive the crawler up on some railroad ties, slide underneath and weld it in place.
Option 2, cut the part of the pedal your foot pushes on off in the center, remove the pedal, fix the pedal, weld the cutoff section back on.
Lavoy

I may be wrong, but I highly doubt it due to the wet clutches and associated oil flow through the housings.
lavoy

He's working on a wheel tractor, not a crawler, I talked to him yesterday. Wheel tractor uses a one piece affair, can't use crawler pieces to fix it unfortunately.
Lavoy

Stacking is not factory, and no factory linkages or lever exist to do so, you will have to fabricate most of it. Sideways on the fender is the only configuration for dual hydraulics that is factory.
It will work, that is not an issue, it is just whatever your preference is.
Lavoy

Welcome to the club, have fun.
Lavoy

I would echo the power washer, done basically the same thing on trackframes on the 2-cylinder crawlers. It works well, just let it soak up and start to disrupt the hardened dirt, and it gradually washer out.
Lavoy

Same difference, 90% of the clutch parts on ebay are them. I would say junk pressure plate all things being equal. I know their pressure plates, thrown a couple new ones in the scrap dumpster.
Lavoy

Did you use Ebay parts? My apologies if you got them from me and I just don't recognize you.
Lavoy

I would add that modern fuel is no more likely to plug a pump than fuel of 50 years ago. I am also going to assume you are talking about a 350 or later crawler, and a diesel as well. If you are having plugging issues of any sort, it is not a fault of the fuel unless you have contaminated fuel which ...

Yes, machine shop would need to do it, it isn't expensive, cheap insurance. Ask them as to doing both intake and exhaust.
Lavoy

Like many other aspects of all crawler, lack of maintenance is what I often see talked about as a reason for failure, specifically not changing the trans filter because it is hard to do. This probably means that the fluid did not get changed much either.
Lavoy

In general, you do not read anything good about the 550 transmissions. I would say you are looking at a tear down, sorry.
Lavoy

I am not sure, but I think it is very unlikely.
Lavoy

Thank you for doing that, way above my pay grade.
Lavoy

Any of the J20 spec lubes is my preference as well, or Hygard direct from Deere.
Lavoy