More issues flywheel cracks 1952 case sc

Bhunt

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I had taken pictures of everything so I could blow them up and find any problems the picture of the flywheel was just to one side and I never saw it. This morning when I went to take off the flywheel, well a picture's worth a thousand words the fellow I bought the tractor from used it to crushed rock and drilled his water well with it.
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one crack? i would consider that
flywheel new! have it ground flat to
remove inner/outer ridge and run it,
unless its being bolted to a 500hp
puller! you may go looking at the
breaker yards and see several and yours
will still be in better shape.
 
No kidding huh this is a non issue? It is smooth on the face of the crack. What do you figure its a heat & cooling expansion crack?
 
Flywheel looks rough but will probably clean up pretty good. The one crack should be ok. On your clutch parts, are the SC and Dc the same parts. I have parts books on both I can check. Dick, OR.
 
It is a different part number on the dc I could only find one number on the DC the SC has two one for a hand clutch one for a foot clutch. Both had a hand clutch and foot clutch 5600000 and after. Do You think it would hurt if I stop drill the crack with a #40 drill bit? At least the crack wont go further? Fact is it has probably been there since I bought the tractor.
 
The crack in the flywheel wouldn't bother me at all either. When I worked at the engine shop I ground dozens, maybe a couple hundred flywheels, and cracks like that are very common. Some just seem to crack easier than others, like most later IH's, they looked like spider webs!
 
Hi
Looking at the rest of the mess, I think it's a good job he never went to the pulling track at all. I have seen the aftermath of a fordson dual clutch exploding at idle in a guys yard. Everything stayed in the bell housing, and they got it stopped in time luckily. if that had been in the field, or pulling it would of become a land mine, and probably gone in the crowd at the track. These cracked flywheel/ clutch pictures should be a great big warning to all the "I don't need all that steel clutch and flywheel safety stuff" guys that are around. in my shop I pull way to many flywheels/ clutches out that are junk.
Regards Robert
 
I guess there is not enough space to get in there and weld that ear back on the pressure plate? I wonder if the clutch was set too tight or was stuck which caused the ear to brake off.
 

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