So I bought all new seals for the front end of a 17 Series I I bought, but I don't think they make one for this opening, cause by some idiot and his grinder.

Dad says I should just weld it up, and clean out the bearing cavity from the inside, which could work as I will be tearing it completely apart anyway, but I am not set up to weld cast here, and have never had great luck doing that anyway.

I am thinking that these housings rarely ever break, and hardly ever get sold from the salvage folks, guessing they almost always end up riding to the iron man.  I would prefer to replace it, does anyone have one, just the gear housing, not the lower bolster?

It would be at least a $100.00 at the welding shop, if I took it somewhere, if I hauled it to the farm and back that would be over a $100.00, and again a questionable weld.  Does anyone have one in the bone yard, that they could let go reasonable, I don't yet know what it weighs empty, but maybe we could leapfrog it so shipping isn't huge?

Your Thoughts???

Tuck,

It is kinda hard to tell, but backed right up to the underside of the hole, is the steering sector shaft, and bearing.  I can't have anything protruding down into the casting, and I want to put the front pump back on, so I need clearance on the top too.

Thanks for the idea though, that would certainly work on other areas of the housing, just not here.

  Could braze or silver-solder a patch on also. 

I may very well be interested, as the farm is near Kearney Nebraska.

This is an early 17.  Pleas send me a PM, of what you are asking?

The funny thing is, when I looked at how the pump bracket was installed, the pump was about a 1/4" low from center line of the crankshaft, but the really funny thing is, there is a 1/4" of clearance under the shaft at the point of the grinding.  So it wasn't necessary at all even if the pump was low.  The shaft actually hits at the front of the housing right where the pump bracket is, if the pump is installed low in the holes, so basically if done right, there would have been no need for this grinding, unless the casting was 1/2" thick at this point.  This points out the need to progressively check your work along the way, and stop when you get far enough.  I speculate he guy had an 8" grinder or bigger, and just went to town for 10 minutes, hit the gear, and went, "oh crap" stuck a rag over it and left it????

Anthony

 

Where are you or the tractor located?  Bellow your ID it says ColoradoSprings, but you mention Kearney?  I make it out to the Kearney area once in a while and have a friend that lives just south in Minden.

 

Cuz that stuff really sticks - like they say 'like sh$t to a blanket'

 

You're just keeping the grease in and the dirt out.

 

Gary

Tractor is here with me in Colorado Springs, grew up on the farm in Nebraska, just outside Gibbon, east of Kearney.  Get back there a couple times a year.

Um, let me think about that for a while........Since Dad won't even sell it to me, I doubt he will be interested in that kind of a swap, but I will ask!  :-)

Thanks for all the pics, that clearly too you some time.  I will look into it a bit and get back to you.

Travis, your info is correct on the differences between pre and effective S/N 38136.

So now the search begins for a replacement housing

Anyone have one from a D17 Series I, only the upper cast housing shown above.

Thanks,

Anthony