HELP John Deere wagon

Lrash

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I am new to this forum and need help identifying and sourcing parts. I recently acquired a farm wagon. I think it is a 953. How can I tell if it is a 953? I cannot find a serial number or plate. The wheels are jd680 and stamped like a manufacture date of 11. 63. I am in need of a hub and probably the related bearings, races and grease seal. Please help me
 
If you go to JDPARTS.COM you can find the parts manual and probably tell what you have.

However, you can take the old bearings and seals to a local bearing house and they can get them for you as well. I would assume they are common bearings. Good luck
 
I have a couple hubs for sale. They are the older style with the cast hub caps. There is a serial number stamped on the rear axle toward the right hand side, hard to find and really don't know the purpose of it because I haven't found a place where it is used. I'm in Mn so shipping may be a problem. Gordy in Mn
 
I've rebuilt several different running gears in my parade wagon hobby and about 3 of those gears were JD 953. The 953 parts catalog is attached. The 953 hub is unique and the hub on the right in this photo is a 953. The other hub is a JD 952. For my most recent 953 - about 3 years ago - I replaced the wheel bearings, races and grease seals. Here's what I used: Bearing - Timken 14138A; Race - Timken JD7409; Grease seal - National 473179. You can use these part numbers on google and find them or you can go to your nearest John Deere dealer and they will have the parts you need. Your JD680 wheel is an original to the 953 and is a 15"x5" wheel for a 3503 hub with a push-on hub cap. My 15" wheels were JD 1085 for a 3289 hub with a screw-on hub cap with a JD logo on the front. The photo is a 3289 hub.
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JD 953 parts catalog
 
[size=18:7cba8a70c0][/size:7cba8a70c0]Thank you. Thank you Thank you. This information is extremely helpful. I wish we had a machine shop close by that does the work.
 
[size=18:dfbdce5081][/size:dfbdce5081]Thank you. I wish we had a machine shop close by that does this work but we do not.
 
Hi Lrash
Welcome to Yesterday's Tractor and I hope your first time here is a positive
experience for you. Is the hub you have completely unusable, did it spin a race
or the whole casting broken? Where are you located , I know a gentleman in Iowa that
has lots of parts for John Deere wagons. I have a spare hub for a John Deere 1065
you could have but that won't fit the 953. The 953 was and is a great little wagon,
they pull like a shadow on the highway. Last year I was working on a 1065 running gear
that had spun a race and was able to fix it with a Loctite product I got from
my Deere dealer. What are your plans for your wagon? Best of luck and keep us posted.
Larry
 
(quoted from post at 08:30:12 06/20/20) Hi Lrash
Welcome to Yesterday's Tractor and I hope your first time here is a positive
experience for you. Is the hub you have completely unusable, did it spin a race
or the whole casting broken? Where are you located , I know a gentleman in Iowa that
has lots of parts for John Deere wagons. I have a spare hub for a John Deere 1065
you could have but that won't fit the 953. The 953 was and is a great little wagon,
they pull like a shadow on the highway. Last year I was working on a 1065 running gear
that had spun a race and was able to fix it with a Loctite product I got from
my Deere dealer. What are your plans for your wagon? Best of luck and keep us posted.
Larry
I do not know if the race was spun. I really dont know about the mechanics of this but I do know is a 953 running gear. Thank you for help
 
Easy to tell if it spun a race as it will be loose in hub instead of tight, If not too bad there are locktight products that will take care of that problem and probably still use the old race. And had 953 wagons for over 50 years and never had a hubcap off.
 
(quoted from post at 07:16:34 06/21/20) Easy to tell if it spun a race as it will be loose in hub instead of tight, If not too bad there are locktight products that will take care of that problem and probably still use the old race. And had 953 wagons for over 50 years and never had a hubcap off.

Thank you Leroy. Evidently the race was not spun as I dont feel anything loose. I hope I can get new races, bearings and grease seals in. Facebook helped me locate local machine shop as I know very very little about this. Thanks again
 
I did a JD 953 for a friend a few years ago. I got all the wheel components from Carquest. They got bearings races and seals. You can knock
the worn races out with a punch and hammer, carefully insert the new ones and grease and reassemble. I use a piece of hardwood to tap the
races into place so they are not gored or damaged. Use a good quality wheel grease in the rebuild.
 
You don't need or want a machine shop for that. You even with not much in skills can do it all just by looking at things. And unless the race is wore rough it does not need replacing.
 

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