Grease zerk's

fastfarmall

Well-known Member
Just was always curious why one zerk is to the front on a wide front tractor, on the spindle, and the other is to the rear ?
 
Yes, exactly. All the spindle extensions as we called them at FARMALL were made right across the aisle from the first job I had at Farmall. To make a "left" and "right" would have required a second set of fixtures for the extensions to be drilled, second part number too. Farthest west station was the welding booth where the punched and fish mouthed tube was welded to the tube the spindle was installed in. Right across the aisle was the broach that sized the ID of the spindle tube for the bronze bushings, and the holes for the drive in zerks were drilled and zerks installed. Then I washed them and they went to the Merry-Go-Round where the whole frt axle was assembled. I also washed the machined axle castings, the steering cylinders, seems like there was something else I washed but 44 years clouds my memory a little. Nights when work got slow I learned a couple assembly stations by the merry-go-round, like assembling the pivoting yoke and cylinder and plumbing all the steering hoses.
 
Well yes and No, it just starts out as a piece of DOM tubing i suspect,why dont they turn it the other way before the weld it to the ajustable big pipe,it doesn't bother me that much, i can live with it.
 
(quoted from post at 17:45:20 07/02/20) Yes, exactly. All the spindle extensions as we called them at FARMALL were made right across the aisle from the first job I had at Farmall.

So did you work on any BN parts? Just in case I find a problem I'd like to know who to blame! :mrgreen:
 
The spindle tube is welded on first. The broaching and zerk holes drilled last. That's the way the engineers routed the part and designed to tooling & fixtures. Me washing them was an "Uncontrolled operation", means I got paid about 50 cents per hundred I tossed into my washer and set back in the tote box. That's in addition to my base rate.
 

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