WD 45 next? YES!!!

Hmmm, will have to take a look and see. Not sure how "tight" it is supposed to be.

Oh noes at the storms. Wishing for all the best for you. That's no good. :(

 When you think things are going good Allis will teach you a lesson or two! Just a quick update. Old tractors that are taken apart and put back together, with improvements, still have issues! They are like me, still old! 

I have a slight leak in the left final drive. not enough that I am going to take it apart soon. Small leak from front crank seal. I did the best I could with alignment and speady sleeve. Must have missed something?? 

So tonight I was getting the old girl ready for a pull on Saturday at our big local fair. Finished swapping in the long drawbar and took the tractor for a joy ride about 1/2 mile and back. When I slowed and turned into the drive I disengaged the hand clutch and the foot clutch and eased the gear shift out of 4th while still rolling. Well it threw a hissy fit! Just couldn't find a gear shifter lever went wobbly and limp, but was stuck in 4th. Finally got it stuck back in 1st and got into the garage. 

Took a break to think through the fix.

 Pulled the shift lever and proceeded to add some weld to the end of the stem. .60 inches is a little too big for the front to back dimension. Ended at .540 inches.  I built up the width to about .42 inches was about .31 inches. It looked like it wanted the slip between the shift gizmos. So I figured I would make it wider! Also carved out another washer/ spacer below the snap ring that holds the lever, and inserted a rubber seal that I found on the bench. Several runs at it and the shift lever action seems happy, and crisp again. I was worried I might drop the little side keys down in the tranny! Someone was watching over my shoulder as they stayed in place through the whole repair.

Too late to take a test run, as all the neighbors are in bed!  Moral of the story is I think you can repair almost everything on one of these WD45's and they will still test you!

Thanks for checking in on me!

FYI This next pull is on a horse track and is usually soft. I increased the length of my hitch a lot, but also added 500 lbs right in front of the rear wheels. Hoping that might help get a little more weight transfer. Will be in the 4500 lb class.

Spent most of the day making maple syrup products for competition at the fair too. Three categories of Syrup, Crumb Sugar, Maple Cream, Maple Candy, and Maple walnut fudge! Plus a basket with 4 maple items. 

We are overwhelmed with yellow squash, zuchnii, pickles, and green beans! Garden is really doing good this year. Sweet corn will be late but its coming along and just starting to tassel out. Tomatoes seem to be lagging. 

Regards,

 Chris

Couple pictures at the tractor pull today. Track is very sandy/ loose material. I had extended the hitch and the WD45 front end still stayed down in good order. I choose to pull in low gear. Pulled 207 feet and was out done by 7 other tractors. About normal at this pull as there was no speed limit, no tire size restrictions, no RPM restrictions. So there were some tractors that to me didnt sound and or act like Antique Tractors. Two in my class at 4500 LB looked to be stock. I weighed 4530 lb. so that checked out OK. 

Frank,

 You are very observant. Seems the owner missed those details and a few others for the antique pulls. But with no rules and no one checking tractors, anything goes. He ended up in second place after 6 tractors had a pull off for going over 250 feet. I seen this tractor /driver go way out of normal safety issues in my book, on a power track. Would be interesting to know the power producing features?

In hind site I learned a lot. With my weights as I have them now and a soft track I can use that longer hitch and still have a decent pull with a stock short tired Allis tractor. There are still a lot of stock tractors out there that are really tough competition too. 

I left my tractor at the fair grounds on display for the week, will pick it up next weekend.

Regards,

 Chris