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Topic: Steering Clutch availability

Posted By: maccountry
Subject: Steering Clutch availability
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2014 at 2:40pm

Hello members ,

Looking for help --- A***gin ? Yeah . Am looking for a Left side steering clutch assembly for my HD11B seriel # 2675 circa 1955/57 ? Any suggestions and possible prices I am going to have to pay for it would be appreciated .

Thanks in advance .

Mac McGrail mailto:maccountry22640@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow - maccountry22640@yahoo.com

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Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2014 at 9:28pm

General Gear in Idaho ,has a very good reputation from other old crawler fixers.I have not used them.Last after market steering clutch plates I used has been a few years and they were $20 plus dollars apiece.Depending how worn the drive teeth are on plates you can just add more to bring the stack up to the new stack thickness.Hopefully you can find a measurement of new thickness, as if you get it to thick it will not disengage to turn.

Posted By: maccountry
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2014 at 2:05am

Thank you RAY54 .Did you mean that "General Gear" in Idaho has some used ones but that there are also some after market ones out there also some where ?

Mac McGrail mailto:maccountry22640@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow - maccountry22640@yahoo.com

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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2014 at 4:11am

Last I spoke with them out there they had used and new discs.

Posted By: maccountry
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2014 at 10:16am

Thank you Sir .

I will try them when & if I get the old steering clutch out .

I'm still working on the radiator.

Mac McGrail mailto:maccountry22640@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow - maccountry22640@yahoo.com

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Mac McGrail

Posted By: iceberg210
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2014 at 4:55pm

As a regular customer of General Gear, for Allis parts even, they are a great resource I would definitely recommend them. They always seem to have both brake bands and steering clutches for Allis dozers.

Posted By: maccountry
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2014 at 9:18am

Mr.Iceberg210 ,

Thank you for the added "thumbs up" on them.

I will definately bgive them a try when I finish my radiator repair .

Mac McGrail mailto:maccountry22640@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow - maccountry22640@yahoo.com

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Posted By: Dozer
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2014 at 6:19pm

Buffalo Clutch relines brakes and clutches. I took my HD6 steering clutches to him and he found an interchange number and pulled the clutches from his stock. The clutches for the HD6 and HD7G are for sale on eBay. I was told by one of the sellers that these are still being manufactured. I forgot in which country. Ask a question to an eBay steering clutch seller. I got used clutches at a good price from Hector at Gem Dozer

Posted By: Dozer
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2014 at 7:06am

The eBay seller said HD5-6 and HD7G steering clutches are being manufactured in Austria

Posted By: maccountry
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2014 at 3:16pm

How about HD11B ?Are they still being made as well ?

Mac McGrail mailto:maccountry22640@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow - maccountry22640@yahoo.com

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Posted By: Mactractor
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2014 at 3:45pm

Mac, friction plates and spacers for HD5, HD9, dry steer HD6, HD11 are all interchangable. The bigger the tractor, the more plates are used. Same deal for wet steer clutch tractors where friction plates have a different composition for oil bath, HD6, HD7G, HD11, again interchangable.

Posted By: maccountry
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2014 at 10:02am

Thank you very much for the "interchangability" information .This has become quite a learning process for an "Old Fart" like me but I'm still fumbeling along with it .Doing two machines at the same time (a Case 680 Construction king loader back hoe) doesn't make it any easier either .Almost got that one finished though .

Mac McGrail mailto:maccountry22640@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow - maccountry22640@yahoo.com

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Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2014 at 9:43pm

Been working no time to play here,but looks like other have helped.Hector of Gem Dozer is very knowledgeable,and from comments has good prices.Only down side is French is his first language,and is hard to follow sometimes. He is in Canada but has no trouble sending parts south it seem.

Posted By: maccountry
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2014 at 3:33pm

I took "French" in the 9 th. grade ( 57 years ago ) . Heck , I couldn't even speak english back then --- not much good at it now . Born and raised here to . So French was a total failure for me then . But, We'll work it out some how . May be in the Spring though .Want to finish the Radiator first and am having a hard time with that . Bolts been in so long may wind up cutting them off , forcing the radiator off of them , cutting them off a second time immediately next to the "threaded holes , then drilling them all the way through and using new bolts with lock washers and nuts on them . Going to work on it again Wednesday.Buddy is bringing his big compressor over .

Thanks as always .

Mac McGrail mailto:maccountry22640@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow - maccountry22640@yahoo.com

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Mac McGrail

Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2014 at 6:00pm

I am a failure at that English stuff too.If you have a welder handy to your dozer lay a flat washer on the cut off or broken bolt and weld it on and then weld a nut on top of washer let it cool so you can hold your hand on it ,hit it with the best impact wrench you can get your hands on.May not come the first time or the second but lots easier than drilling and tapping .And don't worry about next time as that will somebody else problem.But put some anti -seize on it anyway.

Posted By: maccountry
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2014 at 7:38am

Good morning Ray54 . Sounds like a heck of an Idea! I just bought a welder as well .I will try that .The direct heat on the short stub of the remainder of the bolt should help as well.Thank you .

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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2014 at 5:53pm

After you weld the washer and nut on, hold a bees wax candle against the threads, so the wax melts into the threads. Let it cool, and tighten the nut/washer/stud till it just moves a little. Then back the whole mess out...

Posted By: maccountry
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2014 at 2:46pm

Doing it tonight .Thank you.

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