XT Final drive bearing
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Topic: XT Final drive bearing
Posted By: captaindana
Subject: XT Final drive bearing
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2012 at 5:17pm
is trashed and I would believe that is why the seal let go.   So although I aint the sharpest knife in the drawer, I believe I have to pull the wheel off the axle. Then I can do what I need to do, but still I have the bolt in the bottom of the final drive to deal with. One step at a time. It makes since cause when I drained all the fluids when I got this the left final had only 2 quarts in it. |
Replies:
Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2012 at 8:29pm
| When you drained that side this time then there wasn't extra trans fluid in that side or was the trans just low for some other reason? |
Posted By: ALLISMAN32
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2012 at 9:07pm
| Wonder what the inner bearing looks like? Were you supposed to slightly overfill the left side for plowing applications? |
Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2012 at 6:02am
| Dan that question I keep asking myself! The left final drive had some spider cracks which we sealed with jbweld. I topped it with 2.5 gals last fall and it never leaked. So after draining trans oil and pulling rear pto, I see the trans [new] oil from last fall is yellow from water. It had a ton of water in trans when I drained it. The oil which leaked in the field on the steep hill was not trans oil cuz it wasn't yellow. Why the trans oil was low I am guessing when I refilled it and drove around some pockets filled and it probably lowered to just not quite touching the bayonet. I have to get the fully weighted wheel off, then I can see to fix bearings. As I said that bolt in the final drive drain is still an issue. Jeepers I don't have many tools big enough to mess with that wheel; ugh. |
Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2012 at 6:36am
| I have confidence in you - be back up and running in no time - is that wheel heavy, LOL |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2012 at 10:22am
| Capn; it's always nice to have a good excuse to buy more tools!! Then you can 'get er done'!! |
Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2012 at 11:33am
| Hey capt found a hand pallet jack like the ones used in wharehouse and semi trailers, works to move tires and wheels in and out once you have them loose. just need a concrete surface or a few sheets of heave plywood to work on. |
Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2012 at 4:47pm
| BTW when I was looking at this tractor pre buy the guy said his dad had fallen asleep and drove through a stone wall fence and cracked that housing. I am now thinking that bolr coming out cracked it. I was investigating the cracks when we jb'd them and kept telling Ian the crack was made from the inside outwards. I now believe I was correct. My immediate issue is getting the wheel off the axle. There are 3 bolts holding the hob and my buddy says they never want to come apart. |
Posted By: Lynn Marshall
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2012 at 6:17pm
| You're going to need those special pusher bolts (jack screws) to get the axle hub off, if you don't already have a set. |
Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2012 at 3:53am
| Yeah I have been studying what needs to be done here. But for the life of me I can't see how any 1/2x1 bolt can get into the final drive assembly but its there and I will figure this out! |