Ken Christopherson
Well-known Member
Morning, fellas!
Well, made quite a bit of progress yesterday. A few frustrations in the process (and without them I probably would have made more progress), but I am happy with how far I have gotten with just two days of reassembly.
The first issue I had was I went ahead and installed the fan belt (prior to installing the generator belt), so of course, I had to do that twice. At that point, I told myself to SLOW DOWN, Lol. Second issue I had was I put the oil pan on and went to turn the motor right side up on the stand and I heard a "clunk". At first I thought it was the oil pump filter assembly just falling to the 'down' position... Then I began to look for my RTV Gasket Goop.. Yup, you guessed it. The tube was inside the oil pan. I also had to do that twice.
Everything seemed to go smoothly after I had a few sips of water and got back to it after that. I decided I needed to walk away for a minute because I was still moving too quick. Got the motor off the stand, flywheel and clutch installed (with a centering tool), and slid outside. The motor and tractor slid together pretty easily - it was just a matter of getting the angles matched up due to the tractor being parked on a little bit of an incline. After that, I figured I would mount the radiator to the front pedestal and frame, and slide it back as an assembly. BOY are those radiator studs/springs/castle nuts fighters! I must have fought with them over an hour and a half to get the nuts on. My friend and I ended up making a modified spring compressor to get everything together in there.
The last thing that fought us was sliding the frame assembly back towards the tractor. It just didn't seem to want to cooperate, so we ended up pulling one frame rail off to get everything backed up, then reinstalled. My friend sat down beside me and said, "You know why you are getting trouble during so many areas of reassembly - it's your dad and grandpa testing you!" Man, oh man.. They sure must have been laughing watching me from above!
In all I put in a good solid 9 hours yesterday and got quite a bit of work done. Now it's time to start setting valves, getting all of the oil lines and fittings installed and ran, getting some wiring done, and adding fluids. From there, we all know what happens... The GRAND FINALE! I hope you guys enjoy the pictures, and included is a link to Episode 14 of the '47 Farmall M saga.
1947 Farmall M Episode 14
Well, made quite a bit of progress yesterday. A few frustrations in the process (and without them I probably would have made more progress), but I am happy with how far I have gotten with just two days of reassembly.
The first issue I had was I went ahead and installed the fan belt (prior to installing the generator belt), so of course, I had to do that twice. At that point, I told myself to SLOW DOWN, Lol. Second issue I had was I put the oil pan on and went to turn the motor right side up on the stand and I heard a "clunk". At first I thought it was the oil pump filter assembly just falling to the 'down' position... Then I began to look for my RTV Gasket Goop.. Yup, you guessed it. The tube was inside the oil pan. I also had to do that twice.
Everything seemed to go smoothly after I had a few sips of water and got back to it after that. I decided I needed to walk away for a minute because I was still moving too quick. Got the motor off the stand, flywheel and clutch installed (with a centering tool), and slid outside. The motor and tractor slid together pretty easily - it was just a matter of getting the angles matched up due to the tractor being parked on a little bit of an incline. After that, I figured I would mount the radiator to the front pedestal and frame, and slide it back as an assembly. BOY are those radiator studs/springs/castle nuts fighters! I must have fought with them over an hour and a half to get the nuts on. My friend and I ended up making a modified spring compressor to get everything together in there.
The last thing that fought us was sliding the frame assembly back towards the tractor. It just didn't seem to want to cooperate, so we ended up pulling one frame rail off to get everything backed up, then reinstalled. My friend sat down beside me and said, "You know why you are getting trouble during so many areas of reassembly - it's your dad and grandpa testing you!" Man, oh man.. They sure must have been laughing watching me from above!
In all I put in a good solid 9 hours yesterday and got quite a bit of work done. Now it's time to start setting valves, getting all of the oil lines and fittings installed and ran, getting some wiring done, and adding fluids. From there, we all know what happens... The GRAND FINALE! I hope you guys enjoy the pictures, and included is a link to Episode 14 of the '47 Farmall M saga.
1947 Farmall M Episode 14