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About 5:30am Tuesday, I sprayed the brake band adjustment bolt and nut with red lube of love, and then came back a bit. I have a set of brass punches I have made, and I used them and a brass head hammer to tap on the nut. Sprayed another small stream of RLL, and then left it. Came back around 11:45....

Just like mead, you can make a flat hard cider or a sparkling hard cider. The sparkling hard cider will leave less of a headache. Just like mead, if you overdo it, it creeps up on you. Mead will give you the worst doggone headache you've had, and if you are greedy- the worst hangover. Cider has a hi...

Time freed itself up today. I documented with video what is going on. I think it was Gregjo who warned me that the brake band was bad out of adjustment with the nasty popping sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fDDXIPj30g Thoughts ? That round "nut" with slots is the brake band adjusting nut rig...

The owner is apparently a Mopar guy. I offered him my Superbee or his choice of a couple engines or any other goodies he wanted for the 440. He is thinking on it. According to him it was brought over by a German guy who started a LARGE chicken egg corporation in my area. I figured out who he was tal...

I did not know about the Perkins diesels in Euro-Spec 440's. That's pretty far out. I doubt John Deere would have used a bellhousing adapter, but this one could have been a factory conversion. Other than using that doggone Summit aluminum radiator nothing looked amiss. It had been done so long ago a...

I live an area that was historically very poor(still is) and very isolated. I don't think anyone did the swaps they did to necessarily try to "improve" the crawlers. Instead, I think you would find it's more they did it to keep a piece of equipment going. When I saw the one with the C220 engine in i...

Depending on how big a crack, with the cast iron you have a couple solutions: Best Way, Right Way: *Remove trans, disassemble to bare case. Clean with non-chlorinated cleaner. Drill out ends of cracked area to prevent crack from spreading. Preheat in oven or with torch(I like an oven better). Palco ...

I've seen the Drott badged cranes with model years up to the early 90's. There is a Case Construction dealer in Atlanta that I know for sure orders parts and services them. I wish I had bought the one I had the opportunity to buy. Would have been a lot better than the Gantry I'm fooling with buildin...

I happened to see a modified 440 over in TN this morning. It sort of surprised me, as it had a 3 cylinder Perkins diesel engine. Nothing was obviously amiss until you got up close. The tractor had Caterpillar style grill guard on it, and right behind that was an aluminum aftermarket radiator like Su...

Realistically, what is the lifting capacity of 420 with factory loader or 440 with factory loader ? I've found one of each, what I'd be doing is adapting my pallet forks to fit. I'm wondering what the safe lifting capacity is ? Keep in mind, I'm not planning on putting something on the 2nd Floor of ...

I bought the parts John Deere 420C I was looking at. He wanted to keep the radiator he found for it, and a water pump off the bad engine. Gave $200 for it, delivered. Has a nice Blade. While looking at the somewhat disassembled machine, I had a small but startling epiphany. Looking at the parts manu...

Buy some new rollers from Lavoy, is your best option. If you have a lathe or you're very good at welding, I've repaired them for machines that are far more "obsolete" than our JD's. When I say repaired, I mean I made them marginally usable. It is possible to weld them up, and turn them on a lathe fo...

It is difficult to say based on the information given. I'm assuming you're dealing with a 144 John Deere. Are you 100% sure you had no air leaks and all your fittings were tight ? You sure you got it bled properly ? Was your fuel ok ? IE: If water in the fuel or bad fuel was part of the equation tha...

Two Things: (1) How the heck do I disassemble the linkage to put on another clutch pedal ? (2)Is a parts(-) condition crawler worth $400 ? (1) My service manual says to see the Model 40 service manual to service the center section and the clutch linkage. I don't have that part of the manual. I have ...

Greg, Lavoy: I apologize. I should have mentioned long ago where I am.

I am in the mountains of Western NC. As far west as you can go in NC without being in East TN or North Georgia.

The crawler I've got is roughly number 116,000. So based on my research- 1957 or so.