ball bearing

Dwashebek · Feb 13, 2017

I changed the oil in my JD 1940 H and this ball bearing fell out with the oil. The tractor has been restored and I'm not sure if this was a leftover from a previous repair or I have a bearing failing. There are no abnormal noises or over heating of any bearing that I can tell. Any ideas?

Mike M · Feb 13, 2017

Likely a ball from a gov. bearing. Only place in there they are used. The gov. bearings on those are usually bad unless someone replaced them. Hard to tell where it came from and what was done inside. I have found all sorts of items down in those crankcases.

Dwashebek · Feb 13, 2017

If there's no apparent noise of a bearing failure, is it an immediate concern?

Thanks.

Mike M · Feb 13, 2017

I have no idea ? Could just be leftovers from a previous repair ?
Only way to tell for sure is to dive in and tear it apart. You would not believe all the parts I pulled out of my 720 diesel during an oil change after just driving it home several hours away. Some was from old repairs and some of the gear teeth edges were from gears left in there with broken teeth. I got mad at it and myself and did a complete tear down ! At least now I know what is in there.

Mike(NEOhio) · Feb 13, 2017

I had the same thing with mine when I first got it. Years later when I tore it down I found pieces piston rings, a flyweight pin with cotters in it, and tiny gear teeth. Nothing missing in the engine, though.

Dwashebek · Feb 13, 2017

Thanks, that's kind of what I thought. I won't worry about it unless I hear some bearing noise.

RLA · Feb 13, 2017

I still use a 1/2 x 9/16 open end wrench that came out of a 1946 Model A
that we farmed with for years. I had to replace the lower oil pump gasket
& found the wrench, fly weight pin & cotter keys inside. Old Chuck is still
going strong....

Brian F. Williams · Feb 13, 2017

Took about a gallon bucket of fencing staples out of the transmission of my 36 A when I restored it. Make you wonder why someone would think that is a good place to keep them. Even if it probably was a fence row decoration.

leon · Feb 14, 2017

Working with the oil line to the LH main bearing on an H REQUIRES an 11/16" shortie combination wrench. I wouldn't have bought one if I'd known ahead of time that there was already one in the bottom of the crankcase. I found the best way to work on that project was to tie a string to the wrench because I was going to drop it after every very short turning stroke.

Mike(NEOhio) · Feb 14, 2017

leon's post reminded me. Years ago I went to Frank's Tractor in Austinburg, OH for H parts. Talking to Frank himself he said how he HATED working on Hs and how he always cut up his hands working in the crankcase. Good guy, though. A few parts were on back order. I offered to pay for them he said he didn't know the price and send him a check when I got them. He didn't know me from Adam. Got some parts from Columbus in two days, the rest from Moline in five. I don't think that would happen today.

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