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How to widen rear wheels 1947 H Farmall

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Rayman66

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Have decided to move rear wheels out to their max. width. Does anyone have any tips or tricks that would make the job easier?
Thank you in advance.
 
A 3/4 drive socket set and a acetylene torch and a four foot cheater pipe. Maybe a can of your favorite penetrating oil. gobble
 
Jack it up three inches off the ground with the clamps loose,rock the wheel side to side and it should just walk out. BTW put the key at the bottom.
 
The others have give you about the best tips there are and getting the bolts loose will likely be the biggie. I had a real experience getting the bolts loose on a 1941 H
in 1974 so I can about imagine what another 50 years would have done. I don't remember how I finally got them loose except to say I still have the 3/4 drive breaker
bar(new britian) and the 2nd ! socket I used.

When I got them to come out it wasn't the thread that had locked them so tight but the rust grown down the bolt to the hub. As to moving them on the axle there was/is a
ball bearing strip about a foot long to place under the loose key in the keyway, with the key on top, and slide them on the axle.
 
After we loosened the hub bolts, we put a chain around the hub, hooked the chain around the end of the axle with a bar in the chain on the end of the axle. Just rotate the wheel and the chain will move the wheel out. Wrap the chain around the axle housing if you want to move the wheel in. Some of our tractors had slots in the hub to drop a chain link into.
 
Long ago that was a yearly ritual, moving the wheels out to put on the cultivator, then moving them back in. Didn't seem too bad, there was a special wrench for loosening the clamping bolts. After that with the wheel jacked up as someone said it was oiling the axle rocking it back and forth.
 
Loosen bolts
Jack it up
Oil or grease the axles.
Walk them in or out pushing or pulling from side to side or top to bottom.
Tighten bolts and remove jack.
Check bolt tightness and do so again after you run the tractor some.
 
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