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Acquired a Farmall 230
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
I would replace the spring in the governor while its apart and check the pivot arm for wear, seen several worn out
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
Cleaned and sandblasted the seal plate. Looks like it would braze up without much trouble.
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
tst wrote:I would replace the spring in the governor while its apart and check the pivot arm for wear, seen several worn out
The parts looked pretty good to me but I will inspect it again just to be sure.
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
the spring always looks good, they lose there strength and stretch to easy under load, kinda like shocks in your car, slow death and do not know how bad they were until you put new ones in
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
tst wrote:the spring always looks good, they lose there strength and stretch to easy under load, kinda like shocks in your car, slow death and do not know how bad they were until you put new ones in
Good to know.
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
Found another small crack in the seal plate (first pic). Cleaned and inspected the both bearings, bearing cage plate, and the pedestal steering shaft. Just need to blast the housing, pedestal, and wheel centers to get this front assy ready for paint.
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
Got the wheel centers and pedestal blasted and treated with Ospho. Since I have them pulled off of the engine I am going to clean up the water pump and fan assy. The nut holding the worm gear shaft in the steering housing is fighting me. I guess I need to warm it with the torch to loosen it up. Once that's out I can clean the housing. I ordered a couple seals that should be here by Monday.
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
Had to use some heat and cheater bar to loosen the worm shaft cap. Made a loud pop when it came loose and then threaded out mostly by hand. Removed the shaft seal and it is now ready to sandblast. Need to clean and check the bearing to see if it needs replacing.
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
The seals for the steering housing arrived today. Pulled the rocker cover and thermostat housing off and prepped for paint. The rocker cover has been mostly bare metal since I pressure washed the tractor just after I bought it. Now I can finish cleaning the front of the block and spray a little paint behind these parts before reassembly.
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
Cleaned up a few more parts and added the oil pan. Starting to suffer from mission creep. The pan was mostly bare metal like the rocker cover so I may as well add it to the paint list. Blasted the fan assy and boiled up the pan and steering housing to clean the oil and grease off. I used the hot water and a brush to clean the crud off the water pump. Its a little noisy when I spin it but the bearing feels smooth. Not sure whats up there. May need to replace it.
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
Broke out the hammer and dolly and finished smoothing out the oil pan. No perfect by any means, but good enough. I'll put a before pic of the pan as it was when I bought the tractor.
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
Nice work on the oil pan! (You have a before picture on page 1 of this thread.)
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
Jim Becker wrote:Nice work on the oil pan! (You have a before picture on page 1 of this thread.)
I thought I had posted it before. When I paint it you will still see some waves and hammer marks but mostly down low so most will not notice it much.
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
Finally got the steering housing blasted and treated with Ospho. Now to get set up somewhere to spray some primer.
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Re: Acquired a Farmall 230
Bought a new water pump because the bearings were noisy and probably not far from failure. Shot some primer and paint finally.
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