1370 differential advice needed
I finally started tackling the job of replacing ALL of the fiber discs in the rear end on my 1370.
To give a little background from an earlier post, I’m the guy that changed oil in his thought to be cherry 1370. Only to find out 60hrs later all of the fiber discs in the tractor are eaten away.
What I am finding is a major malfunction behind every bolt.
I have ran into a paradox/dilemma when I pulled the rear axel shafts I noticed the planetary sun shafts were eaten up.
BUT… the planetary gears are in excellent shape except for one gear on the LH side.
HOW could this happen and NOT do the same to ALL the planetary gears in the cluster.
PLUS there’s NO metal in the tractor or the oil from the apparent planetary sun shaft failure.
I talked to the original owner and got the low down on this tractor before I bought it. I even talked to the dealer that serviced the tractor for the last 30 yrs. When it was about 5 -6 yrs old the top gear/high gear broke. The dealer supposedly fixed everything that needed fixing.
My thoughts are the sun shafts were thought to be damaged but reusable, when perhaps they were not.
Any comments and suggestions would be helpful.
I also want to know if you guys think the one speckled planetary gear is worth the risk of using or should I
1) Buy a new one
2) Find a good used replacement
The rest of the gears are like new with NO noticeable wear.
Also what would you guys suggest?
1) Run new sun shafts against those gears
2) Find good used sun shafts
I finally started tackling the job of replacing ALL of the fiber discs in the rear end on my 1370.
To give a little background from an earlier post, I’m the guy that changed oil in his thought to be cherry 1370. Only to find out 60hrs later all of the fiber discs in the tractor are eaten away.
What I am finding is a major malfunction behind every bolt.
I have ran into a paradox/dilemma when I pulled the rear axel shafts I noticed the planetary sun shafts were eaten up.
BUT… the planetary gears are in excellent shape except for one gear on the LH side.
HOW could this happen and NOT do the same to ALL the planetary gears in the cluster.
PLUS there’s NO metal in the tractor or the oil from the apparent planetary sun shaft failure.
I talked to the original owner and got the low down on this tractor before I bought it. I even talked to the dealer that serviced the tractor for the last 30 yrs. When it was about 5 -6 yrs old the top gear/high gear broke. The dealer supposedly fixed everything that needed fixing.
My thoughts are the sun shafts were thought to be damaged but reusable, when perhaps they were not.
Any comments and suggestions would be helpful.
I also want to know if you guys think the one speckled planetary gear is worth the risk of using or should I
1) Buy a new one
2) Find a good used replacement
The rest of the gears are like new with NO noticeable wear.
Also what would you guys suggest?
1) Run new sun shafts against those gears
2) Find good used sun shafts