Hey Everyone,
OK Wood furnace part 3:
Once I had the tube all squared and cut to length, it was just a matter of cutting it into the 4 corners, and now I have 4 new legs.
Then it was time to deburr and wirewheel all the rust off, and just like new, lol.
Notice the wood beam assembly in the background, I whipped that together so I could lift the furnace out of the barn, (it still had the cabinet on and I didn't want to bend it all up).
Found a piece of sheetmetal for bottom.
Had a tad bit of rain moving through so had to paint what I had cleaned down to bare steel.
New bottom and legs welded and painted.
Time to get it set back on the legs.
I am using my best friends 3400 Ford to move the stove around and level the backyard.
At the moment these are the 2 best pics I have of his tractor so I will take time to talk about everything we have done to it now.
This is a pretty nice old tractor, the rear tires are fluid filled and have weights on them, it is equiped with a Fel on the front, and a Gill box blade on the back, I have added a reciever hitch to the Gill blad, a hook on top of the front bucket, and have a set of forks I made for my 750 that we also adapted to fit his bucket.
Claude is a great guy, and he can do many things, but fixing equipment, (turning wrenches in general), isn't something he has a clue about, lol, so I am the one that keeps everything running, (with his help of course, he makes a great second pair of hands).
I have put a new clutch, pressure plate, throwout bearing, and changed the rear main seal in this tractor, then summer before last I had to replace the entire front axle, the way the pump for the FEL is setup on this thing is pretty much like I am wanting to do with my Bota, except the driveshaft from the front of the engine to the pump runs through the pivot pin for the front axle, we had fought with the spline couplings and drive shaft wearing out and breaking for several years and I was rather perplexed as to why, (I hate having to fix something more than once, if it break I do my best to figure out why and make sure to correct everything involved so it doesn't happen again).
Well after the front axle snapped at the pivot point I was finally able to understand why the couplings and shaft were giving me so much grief, (I was not able to see the main problem with everything all put together), but what had happened was the pivot point had worn down to the point it was resting the weight of the tractor right on the drive shaft.
Anyway we made a run to a local tractor salvage yard and found another front axle, it was slightly different from what we needed and was showing a tad bit of wear, mostly on the pivot hole, so I took it to a local machine shop, had them to bore and true the hole, then machine a bushing with the proper size hole and a nice press fit to the oversize hole now in the axle, once that was all taken care of we sandblasted the whole thing, painted it and replaced all the kingpin bushings, replaced one kingpin, got it all put back together with all new grease fittings, and lubed it all up, now it works like a top, even steers better, lol.
I managed to resolve a number of issues when we replaced the axle.
This past summer I replaced the tappet cover gasket, (thing was leaking a quart of oil a day), replaced the top cover gasket for the injection pump, all the fuel return lines, and still have a small leak on the pump I have to find.
If you notice in the first picture with the tractor, I have a piece of stove pipe over the muffler, and there is a nice stream of white smoke blowing to the sky, I put the pipe on it to get the fumes out of my face, it is overfueling big time, I am trying to get him to let me take the injectors and have them rebuilt, still haven't got him to get it done yet, maybe this winter or in the spring.
OK enough for this post, More to come!
Enjoy
Paul
