Ken Christopherson
Well-known Member
Hello all and Merry Christmas Eve-Eve! I figured I would give you a brief update on the 1942 Farmall H memorial restoration for suicide
awareness. Over the past week, we were able to go down to my cousin's shop and send every internal transmission piece through his high
pressure steam-washing bay, the parts washer, and the high temp rotisserie cabinet. Looks like we are in need of a lot of bearings for the
rear section, and am currently working with my bearing supplier (Case IH wants nearly $1200 for all of them).
We also were able to blast all of the PTO components, install all new bearings, felts, and seals, and reassemble. Everything there is like
new. Last, we completely disassembled the belt pulley drive and it is a good thing we did. Man, the sludge that is in there is like malt o
meal hot cereal! A good cleaning, and that should be ready to reassemble with new gaskets and seals as the bearings look to be in real nice
shape.
Attached is a video of the PTO and Belt Pulley work, for those of you who would like to tackle these projects on your own. It really was
not too bad at all (of course, I have the entire H laying on the floor in pieces). I hope you all enjoy, and have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS.
If you can, don't forget to visit the fundraiser for the project. Check out the GoFundMe link in the reply below. Thanks, and happy
wrenching!
P.S. The earlier PTO assemblies with the large sealing ring around the housing - these are no longer available and you can either do one of
two things: 1) Reuse the old sealing ring, with a little RTV for extra security. Or 2) Try to locate an O-Ring of similar size. I am opting
to do method #1 as my sealing ring is still very nice.
1942 Farmall H PTO & Belt Pulley
awareness. Over the past week, we were able to go down to my cousin's shop and send every internal transmission piece through his high
pressure steam-washing bay, the parts washer, and the high temp rotisserie cabinet. Looks like we are in need of a lot of bearings for the
rear section, and am currently working with my bearing supplier (Case IH wants nearly $1200 for all of them).
We also were able to blast all of the PTO components, install all new bearings, felts, and seals, and reassemble. Everything there is like
new. Last, we completely disassembled the belt pulley drive and it is a good thing we did. Man, the sludge that is in there is like malt o
meal hot cereal! A good cleaning, and that should be ready to reassemble with new gaskets and seals as the bearings look to be in real nice
shape.
Attached is a video of the PTO and Belt Pulley work, for those of you who would like to tackle these projects on your own. It really was
not too bad at all (of course, I have the entire H laying on the floor in pieces). I hope you all enjoy, and have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS.
If you can, don't forget to visit the fundraiser for the project. Check out the GoFundMe link in the reply below. Thanks, and happy
wrenching!
P.S. The earlier PTO assemblies with the large sealing ring around the housing - these are no longer available and you can either do one of
two things: 1) Reuse the old sealing ring, with a little RTV for extra security. Or 2) Try to locate an O-Ring of similar size. I am opting
to do method #1 as my sealing ring is still very nice.
1942 Farmall H PTO & Belt Pulley