What a fan will do to your radiator...........

Bruce (VA)

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This hasn't been a good tractor day.

In a perfect world, an N water pump will squeak or leak before it tosses the fan into the radiator. But alas, we do not live in a perfect world.

No warning on this.

The 'new style' shaft does not have a groove in it w/ a keeper pin. The pulley is pressed on to the shaft. The 'new' shaft (w/o the pulley)is on the left. Compare that to the one on the right.

According to the rebuild shop, the old style shafts are NLA, but he might have one around.

The radiator shop thinks they can fix the radiator.

Oh well, at least it didn't happen in the middle of the garden season. And the anti-freeze needing changing anyway. :)
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I am glad you can get it repaired. That would ruin my day. Is there anything that can be done to prevent it from happening again?
 
Bruce, they should have no trouble with the radiator just get a new core thats what I did.Heck if you got lots of pin holes they might chase leaks forever.Re-core the old core style is still available cause of all the old Ford cars. Is this the N you just bought from your friend?
 
(quoted from post at 16:13:20 01/22/13) This hasn't been a good tractor day.

In a perfect world, an N water pump will squeak or leak before it tosses the fan into the radiator. But alas, we do not live in a perfect world.

No warning on this.

The 'new style' shaft does not have a groove in it w/ a keeper pin. The pulley is pressed on to the shaft. The 'new' shaft (w/o the pulley)is on the left. Compare that to the one on the right.

According to the rebuild shop, the old style shafts are NLA, but he might have one around.

The radiator shop thinks they can fix the radiator.

Oh well, at least it didn't happen in the middle of the garden season. And the anti-freeze needing changing anyway. :)
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appened to my old combine. Real sinking feeling! About 1/2 day and a boat load of silver solder, my now heavier radiator that looks like the proverbial bear's arse sewed up with a grapevine was back in operation.
 
sweet.

looks like an 850 rad i have. i joke that it has more solder on it than copper and brass.

good luck bro!
 
(quoted from post at 16:13:20 01/22/13) This hasn't been a good tractor day.

In a perfect world, an N water pump will squeak or leak before it tosses the fan into the radiator. But alas, we do not live in a perfect world.

No warning on this.

The 'new style' shaft does not have a groove in it w/ a keeper pin. The pulley is pressed on to the shaft. The 'new' shaft (w/o the pulley)is on the left. Compare that to the one on the right.

According to the rebuild shop, the old style shafts are NLA, but he might have one around.

The radiator shop thinks they can fix the radiator.

Oh well, at least it didn't happen in the middle of the garden season. And the anti-freeze needing changing anyway. :)

You know it ought to be pretty simple to drill and tap the end of the shaft for a #10 machine screw and a suitably sized flat washer. I wouldn't even be surprised to find a countersink on the end to help you start the drill bit :shock: Or if the shaft sticks out far enough send it to me along with the pulley and and I'll put a snap ring on the end for ya ;-)

TOH
 
(quoted from post at 20:14:07 01/22/13) your neighbors must love you. :)

Once my closest neighbor discovered the shop he brought me lots of things. Then he and his wife had a "failure to communicate" and he moved out. So now I'm lonely with just a couple of lazy lay-about locals to keep me company,,,,

TOH

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If the rebuild shop can't locate an OEM shaft w/ a keeper pin in his supply room, I will try the screw & washer trick. And if that won't work, I will take you up on the offer! Tnx much.
 
Now that I know what to look for......just stick your finger on the end of the shaft. It should be flush w/ the pulley. If you feel a hole, the pulley is moving forward on the shaft.
 
Man bad luck on this. Cold down here in the tip of the Commonwealth (about 10 degrees) but mu old 8N started right up yesterday first time.
 
14* here in the warm part of the Commonwealth. I planned to start the one 6v 8N that lives outside just for S&G's, ("My 6v N started at 14*") but it's too damn cold out there for me (yea, forum members in MN, etc, are now LOL at us Southern boys whining about cold weather) I do need to get a bucket of wood up to the house; that job belongs to the 12v M-F diesel which had better start!
 
War story.......

"cool" mornings in V-N (as in the 70's) meant more lift; we could carry 8 Yards in the slicks. But only 6 on the afternoon. Of course, sometimes you only had 6 that were coming back anyway........
 
That happened to me last fall. Hummin' down the road in 4th, pulling my channeled JD grain drill on the way to a payin' gig. About 1/2 way to the field and BAM. Funny how the first thing that comes to mind when coasting to a stop is " Sonofa*!#@+, what in the Wide World of Sports just happened.....and how much is this gonna cost?" It's all good now, though. Good luck. Mark
 

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