IH 35 side delivery rake

Randy-IA

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Hello, Yes I bought one.

My old Oliver 307 rake finally died completely in July when a tine bar bearing failed while raking and it fell out bending up two tine pipes. The bearings have proven hard to find...I've spent three days searching online but since AGCO discontinued them I had to move on to a different rake.

When the Oliver died I borrowed the neighbors IH35 to finish up and I was pleasantly surprised at how good it did. Now I have one of my own but I bought it knowing it had a leak in the gear case output side and some other minor issues. I have the choice between filling it with cornhead grease or I can fix it by installing a new seal. Otherwise it runs smooth and quiet. It has dolly wheels too so my old body doesn't have to fight getting it on the tractors drawbar. I only grow horse hay (very little legume) so rolling on the hay doesn't bother me.

Today I pulled the leveler/adjuster rods out and cleaned the threads inside and out and re-lubed them so they turn with minimal effort now. I found one stripper was out of alignment so I'll yank that one back in line tomorrow. I was also surprised that every grease zerk took grease and didn't spit it back out past the ball.

Anyway, my question is; in order to tackle the rebuild of the gear box (if I decide on doing it that way) I'll be in need of a service manual. Those are also scarce it seems. A clearly scanned paper copy will suffice if anyone can do that. I'll gladly pay for the paper and time to copy it. Even a PDF will do and then I can print it out to take outside with me as I need it.

Any help with that would be appreciated!

Any
 
I'd fill it with cornhead grease and use my time on something more important to me. The gear box should be a pretty straight forward job. I'm not familiar with the 35. Our bar rakes all are on steel wheels and those are simple to work on.Though I've never had the gear boxes apart we just check the oil and go. they leak a bit around the axle shaft during the off season and probably in use. Since they don't get very low and without a major project to find parts on 70 or so year old rakes we just continue on with checking and using.
 
That's likely what I'll do for now, however, I don't have much else to do with my time that's important. I actually do enjoy the frustration and fancy words that trying to rebuild some of this old stuff causes. You should have heard me when I was rebuilding the Woods cadet 72 mower gearbox...especially when I broke the one part of the gear housing in the press. Now I have a mower worth $1000+ that I could sell all day long for $450. But I don't fix stuff with return on investment in mind because I very rarely sell anything that is usable. I just want to use decent but old equipment. I can afford to fix, I can't afford new stuff. I only mow 7 acres of grass hay so cheap and old is the way to go.
 
I have that same rake. It leaks out the gearbox as well. Each spring I refill it with 90 wt or cornhead grease,or whatever is handy. I have even used gun grease. It has leaked for years.As long as I fill/top off yearly,no issues.Only 'bad' thing is it makes a mess. Not a problem for me.
 
i rebuilt my IH 35 gearbox last fall. pretty easy job. just pay attention to where shaft spacers go. shaft seal took some time to find. i think i got it at a dealer. i had to use a speedy sleeve to repair the worn output shaft. after i had gearbox together i decided i didn't like that repair. i removed the output shaft, turned down the worn area, built it up with brass and turned to correct size. not a bad job, but little tricky getting gearbox back on rake without help if i remember right. good luck
 
Thanks for heads up.

I've been looking it over to see how hard it might be taking it off. Seems straight forward just might be a lengthy process if it happens they way it looks like it should.

The output shaft leaks pretty good, the PTO side doesn't leak a drop. So my question is; does the PTO shaft and gear have to come out to get to the output shaft nut? It would sure make it simple if it didn't.

Today I straightened slightly bent strippers and took all the tines off the Oliver. I replaced about two dozen of the old IH teeth with them. The old IH teeth weren't broken but they were close to breaking. The replacements are the standard rubber universal style and bolted right on.

So now it spins with zero noise. But life and rain chances have kept me from doing the last cutting so I can use it. It's got to be a boatload better than the 207 Oliver ever was. The one I borrowed was.
 
seems like i work on a lot of stuff, so i don't really remember everything sometimes haha. i would probably replace every seal and look at all the bearings if i went to the trouble to pull the gearbox. there are enough caps on the gearbox housing that things come apart pretty easy. i'll go by the shed today and take a look to jog my memory. good luck
 

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