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by Stan Disbrow
Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:00 am
Forum: Show & Tell
Topic: Oh BOY, do I need one of these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Replies: 22
Views: 26037

Hi, Looks like a modern Struck mini-dozer painted up to look like a Deere. Not that that makes it any less cool, though! I've been thinking about taking an old original Struck (aka the world's most useless dozer) I have kicking around and merging it with an old Deere 110 lawn tractor to make a track...
by Stan Disbrow
Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:49 am
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: Correct Direction of Track pads
Replies: 16
Views: 19889

Hi, If you look closely, you'll see that the Lindemann pads are stamped and have not so much a grouser, but a curl at the extreme end of the pad. The later (and what we'd call normal these days) pads are forged and have a vertical cleat some distance in from the end. The curl on the Lindeman pads wi...
by Stan Disbrow
Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:26 am
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: Bought a 440ICD as is -- the problems so far
Replies: 22
Views: 20412

Ray, So, if you're in 3rd gear and going backwards, then you had to be using the reverser, which is OK. The thing is designed to allow the machine to move itself backwards in any gear - although I don't much like using 5th gear in either direction as it seems way too fast for the tracks to me! When ...
by Stan Disbrow
Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:48 am
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: Reinstalling Tracks
Replies: 4
Views: 5210

Hi , Does it really matter? The paint won't stay onto the pads for long anyway, even for a show machine. So, unless one is sticking the thing inside a museum, I'd opt to leave the entire track ass'y unpainted. Take the rails off, paint the frame and such, and then put the unpainted rails back on. Or...
by Stan Disbrow
Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:24 pm
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: New 420 owner, lotsa questions.
Replies: 5
Views: 6530

Hi, Yes, these things started as 3-roller and they just pulled stuff. Then, they added a light blade, then a heavier one, and 3rd parties started making all sorts of stuff (most of what you see popping up in the upper left of the site is 3rd party goodies). So, the thing grew a 4th roller, then even...
by Stan Disbrow
Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:10 pm
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: Bought a 440ICD as is -- the problems so far
Replies: 22
Views: 20412

Hi, With the differential style reverser, the clutch packs, the differential gears, and the entire housing that holds the mess together is running as one really fat shaft when in forward. In reverse, the clutches change things and the forward half turns forward, then the tiny differential gears come...
by Stan Disbrow
Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:18 pm
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: Bought a 440ICD as is -- the problems so far
Replies: 22
Views: 20412

Hi, You should be OK as far as damage you might have caused (not to say that there isn't any previous damage). The thing would have had the clutch packs both in the halfway position, and so acted like a neutral. Sounds like nothing grabbed suddenly, so this should not have hurt anything. The real pr...
by Stan Disbrow
Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:59 am
Forum: Show & Tell
Topic: Excited New 2010 Owner!!
Replies: 4
Views: 6464

Hi, You mean, they're *not* supposed to do this sort of thing! Heck, I just figured I'd missed the section of the manual where they mention the oil peeing part! :P It's not just the old iron that does this. New stuff is equally happy to pee on you. I have a brand-new JD/Frontier sicklebar mower. Bou...
by Stan Disbrow
Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:31 am
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: 420 transmission case
Replies: 5
Views: 5568

Hi,

Oooh. I bet that caused a few choice words to pop out! You find that out by trying the gears with the case still on the bench or did you wait until after the machine was reassembled?

Stan
by Stan Disbrow
Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:21 am
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: Bought a 440ICD as is -- the problems so far
Replies: 22
Views: 20412

Hi, Sounds like you have the differential-style reverser. These work by using two clutch packs, made of alternating fiber and steel discs (like a motorcycle ot auto trans clutch). One is for forward motion, and the other is for reverse. In between the clutch packs, there is a set of spyder gears. Th...
by Stan Disbrow
Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:29 am
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: New 420 owner, lotsa questions.
Replies: 5
Views: 6530

Hi, Cool! :) As fer as the two valves go, how would you do it with only one and have a double acting cylinder? The modern spool control valves still have two valves inside. It's just that these old girls have two single-acting valves out in the open with control rods to the lever. You can adjust tho...
by Stan Disbrow
Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:38 am
Forum: Late model JD crawler technical support
Topic: European 450?
Replies: 9
Views: 9723

Hi, When I first saw these photos, I thought it was a backhoe unit. I remember a guy that dug farm ponds having a 450 loader/hoe which had tanks that looked like that. However, I wasn't positive, so I said nothing. I mean, the thing is dozer, not a loader, and I never have seen a dozer/backhoe combi...
by Stan Disbrow
Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:58 am
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: 440icd
Replies: 11
Views: 9669

Hi, Well, there were several of those parts in the scrap heap at Disbrow Equipment Co in Pine Plains, NY at one time. Although the building became a specialty coffee roasting operation after my uncle sold it around 1982, the old scrap heap way out back might still be there. ;) The option essentially...
by Stan Disbrow
Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:19 am
Forum: Show & Tell
Topic: getting dirty in texas
Replies: 18
Views: 20094

Hi, Well, first off, did you have a Pilot's licence for that crawler? Sounds like you needed one! Either that, or *he* needed a Crawler licence instead for that Cessna.... Yep. The headlines: Crawler crashes into Cessna at 1500 feet! You think the story is wierd here, just imagine the story as told ...
by Stan Disbrow
Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:55 am
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: crawler idenity
Replies: 9
Views: 9542

Hi,

BTW, the main reason for the oil dipstick change on the P3 420's was that they knew they were changing the hood design for the 430 and 440 series, and that one was no longer going to be able to access the oil fill cap on top of the valve cover without removing the hood.....

Stan