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1934 A Tranny Oil Check Question

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DScott

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On an early model A without the filler plug on the back, how do you check the tranny gear oil level? I tried looking into the filler plug on top of the case but you can't see anything except the top of the gears, shafts and etc. Is there a way to check it?
 
DIR103 is the Instructions & Parts List (IPL); the "then" version of what we now think of as an Operator's Manual. They are quite good!

Deere Pubs should still have this one for sale, and I think they changed the pricing now so they only take an arm instead of an arm & a leg -- this insofar as the "DIR" pubs are concerned! The telephone number is (800) 522-7448.

BTW, for any given tractor of the "Lettered Series" tractors, you can go to the JD-H Restoration Site (below), scanning across to ARTICLES 1, and from the drop-downs, select DEERE PUBS. Page 2 matches tractor to the Deere Manuals available, and at the bottom of page 1 are instructions for obtaining these manauls.
Restoration Site, JD H
 
Thanks for the info. I probably have this IPL. I usually buy every manual, book and/or cd I can find on a tractor before starting and I have several on this one. I'm just not familiar with the item numbers. I'll check it out.
Don

 
Don,
There is a small plug on the pulley side of the tractor, just behind the first reduction gear cover about 5" from the bottom. Remove that plug and fill until oil runs out that plug.

The "Instructions and Parts List" for your A is the combined operators manual, shop manual, and parts list. It was given Dir(ective) No. 102, and was reprinted several times with different dates as changes were made to the design of the tractor. The earliest one I have is dated 2-34, and that is where the above info comes from. One dated 11-35 is for tractors with the filler plug on the side of the rear cover, so does not show the oil check plug for your tractor.
 
Duane -- Two issues - - -

1. One has to be a bit careful when using any test level plug to check rear end fluid levels because of water entry. And so I always instruct folks to loosen the drain plug at the bottom (not all the way out) to see if water appears, and if it does -- to change fluids! Water in the rear end will affect fluid level at the test plug.

2. Did you mean that DIR102 was for the early "A" tractor? DIR103 is the only one I have found for the "A", and it remains available today. When I check DIR102, Deere's "jdparts" page says it is no longer valid -- so I am not able to establish its purpose. (PatB)
 
1. ok
2. I mistyped - should have been DIR103 - sorry. I do not know the date of the one available today - it may or may not have info about the plug pertinent to this discussion.
 
Pat and Duane,
I checked and I do have DIR103. I shows the later models with the filler plug on the back. I thought I had looked through all of my books before asking I just wasn't familiar with that manual number.
I see the plug Duane described and that looks like the answer but I have not tried it yet. If I can stand the heat I'll check it out this weekend.
Thanks for the info guys.



(quoted from post at 13:54:06 06/04/08) Don,
There is a small plug on the pulley side of the tractor, just behind the first reduction gear cover about 5" from the bottom. Remove that plug and fill until oil runs out that plug.

The "Instructions and Parts List" for your A is the combined operators manual, shop manual, and parts list. It was given Dir(ective) No. 102, and was reprinted several times with different dates as changes were made to the design of the tractor. The earliest one I have is dated 2-34, and that is where the above info comes from. One dated 11-35 is for tractors with the filler plug on the side of the rear cover, so does not show the oil check plug for your tractor.
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