It was built for: Massey-Harris-Ferguson Inc.
Lindeman never built a crawler with a front end loader.
I built the crawler up to use for driveway maintenance and doing landscaping around the property and I adapted the loader to it while I was rebuilding the crawler
The hydraulic hoses for the cylinders are removed.
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I drew up a diagram of where the hoses went and numbered them so I know which hose goes where and which end goes on the valve port and which end goes on the cylinder port.
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Then the cylinders were removed and the loader arms are unbolted from the upright supports.
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The front loader assembly is then lifted up and the crawler is backed out from underneath it.
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The loader arms are set down on a pair of jack stands so it can later be sanded down for re-painting.
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Here are some of the parts that have been taken off so far.
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The crawler is now ready to be put up on stands so the tracks and the rest of the loader upright supports can be removed.
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The crawler is setting up on jack stands and I took off the two track pads over the master link in the track chain.
After 30 years of use, it takes an air wrench and a torch to heat up the nuts to get the track pad bolts off.
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The master link is then rotated forward so it is supported on the front roller and the pin is hammered out of the link.
The two sides of the link are held together with two "C" clamps while the pin was removed.
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The track is then rolled off the rear sprocket and laid out on the floor.
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I didn't take any photos of this when I first put it together 34 years ago because it was just a beat up old crawler that I was putting together so I would have something to move dirt.
Now that I'm taking it apart again, I can show you how the loader was engineered to fit.
Lindeman mounted the front support bar in a rubber sleeve that is held in place by a big clamp with four bolts ( shown in this photo ).
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I got an extra pair of those mounting blocks and rubber sleeve from a tractor junk yard down in Ohio.
The front of the clamps and the rubber sleeves were cut in half.
One half of a clamp and rubber sleeve was used to make the front mount for the upright loader support.
This front mount is also made so it slides into the bottom of the support so there is some room for flexing forward or backward.
The other half of the clamp and sleeve was used to make the rear mount for the upright support.
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There is a 3/4 inch diameter bracing bar that mounts to the top of the upright support and fastens to the rear of the crawler.
This bar is also mounted in a rubber pad.
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When I modified the upright supports to fit the crawler, I made them in three separate pieces that bolt together so that one side could be removed at a time.
This way if I only need to work on one side the whole loader assembly wouldn't have to be removed.
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However in this case, both steering clutches need replacing so the whole loader is coming off anyway but the separate pieces does make it easier to remove it from the crawler.
The crawler is now striped down far enough that the bull gear covers can be unbolted and removed.
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