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did the replacement of the i njectors cure your slobber issue's

i unclogged the drain line and started up the machine. while i was cleaning the fitting a thick oil goo was draining from the opening. I attached a duplicate size fitting in the location that the drain tube was and fitted on a rubber hose to the fitting and placed the hose in a bottle. Before i had ...

Folks we have the following patient jd440 icd 2-53 Diesel Symptoms: slobbering oil form exhaust pipe large amounts of oil existing the drain hole. Appears to have used some oil. History: prolong idleness while rebuild of finale drives and clutches underway new rotor wane installed in blower, by me, ...

i had the smoke coming out of the right end when i got the machine started. I didn't know about a drain plug behind the governor, but i did notice a small fitting on the block that has a short piece of copper tubing. I did paint the machine, perhaps i clogged up the end of this tube. it appears to b...

hi all I jsut got my JD 440icd running after a two year sit, before that it had sat idle for about 5 years. the time it ran in between was for about 20 minutes. I had to replace a rotor vane on the blower and a fuel pump. I just got it started and was letting it sit and run for a few minutes. It ran...

Thanks for the link, i will give them a call Monday. In the mean time I removed the fuel pump and seen that one of the gears had scored the face plate. It was the gear that is driven by the blower gear. I will take the part in to a machine shop and see if they can machine it flat . I noticed that th...

Hey all Just putting the finishing touches on a finale drive rebuild of an old JD 440 icd. I replaced the clutches and bearings and put new paint on her. She is ready to go to work on my small firewood business in the bush of northern Canada. Being old equipment, i figure that some other breakdowns ...

hello all, i just rebuilt the clutches and final drives in my jd 440 icd but now would like to replace the water pump and fuel pump. I have not been able to locate a dealership that can supply me with these parts.

the engine is a 2-53 GMC jimmy motor.

can anyone help me with this?

frozendozer

cool site dude...love all the stuff you got and do, a real master of improvising. great idea for the fuel tanks and the seized motor saloution is right on, weld on the starter. one point of clarification tho. We in the Yukon are the real great white north, Manitoba is just somewhere in the south.......

i have purchased an old C5 tree farmer skidder and was looking for a site similar as this one...can anyone point me in that direction?

i found the problem last night, the issue was that i had not pressed the bearing on enough...

iam in the process of assembling my final drives, new bearings and seals is all that seem to be needed. however as the final drives are put back i noticed that the teeth on the gears dont match up completely. The 14 tooth pinion gear and the 55 tooth drive gear are offset about 1/4 inch. the 55 toot...

thanks all for the advice, it supports the scuttle but i heard here. will be placing an order for new stuff soon.

frozendozer

thought i had a failure on a stearing clutch on my JD 440 icd. when i took it apart to replace, i saw that the seal had failed and that the breal band and clutch disks were completely covered in gear oil as well as the brake band. my question is as follows: di i need to replace all the fiber disks a...

here's some pics from my tear down, the side i thought was a clutch problem was actually a seal failure on the final drives. the result was that all the gear oil got spread over the clutch disk and brake band. The clutch disks all look real good, after i cleaned the grease off, and iam wondering abo...