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Allan in NE

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• Oct 31, 2011

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Some folks just should not be allowed to own hand tools.

Ya just haven't lived 'til you've yanked one of these poopers down out of it's nest after some fool used lock-tight on the housing bolts.

40-minute repair took me 2-1/2 hours just to get the silly thing out. Grrrrrr.......:>(

Allan

 

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oldtanker

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• Oct 31, 2011

• #1

LOL with me it isn't the glues it's the beat to death, welded up, rounded off things that I run into......mostly farmer engineered things.

Rick

 

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luv2wrench

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• Oct 31, 2011

• #1

pink lock tite is factory on the 5 bolts you removed. The red sealer between the halfs is anerobic sealer. Get it at Case iH or GM

 

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Allan in NE

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• Oct 31, 2011

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Yeah, I know; done these things by the 100's.

But it shouldn't have red thread LOCKER on the bolts; damned bolts fought me to the very last last thread. The joker really did a bang up job on the seal too.

I've alredy got the air-out sealer for the housing.

Am trying to decide if I should replace that torrington bearing? Ol' heifer has 'bout a half million miles on 'er. Axle looks good tho.

Allan

 

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bradk

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• Oct 31, 2011

• #1

Hey Allan

A little heat helps alot.Axle Seal leaking? I see you have the old style actuator yet.Not many that havent been updated around here...

 

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Allan in NE

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• Oct 31, 2011

• #1

More like a faucet than a 'leak'. :>)

Yeah, I know. But, I'm kinda wormy bout havin' it original.

It'll give me somethin' to cuss when it's really, really cold outside and I'm in the middle of a snow drift. :>)

Allan

 

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Bob

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• Oct 31, 2011

• #1

Where's your impact gun?

 

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Allan in NE

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• Oct 31, 2011

• #1

That's what I was using. LOL!

Allan

 

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Bob

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• Oct 31, 2011

• #1

You need a BIGGER one!

 

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Allan in NE

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• Oct 31, 2011

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Was lyin' under that sucker yesterday thinkin', "This is a young man's trade".

'Course I hated it back then too. But, I was good at it and a feller does what he has to do to buy a bag of beans. :>)

Allan

 

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the tractor vet

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• Oct 31, 2011

• #1

Ya need my old CP 745 it makes 5/8th bolts come or bleed .

 

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Bob

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• Oct 31, 2011

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I agree on the "young man's work".

Then, I'm DUMB enough from time to time to wrench on a modern combine or 4 X 4 tractor. Climbing around on that BIG stuff is DEFINITELY "young man's work"!

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Oct 31, 2011

• #1

Sounds like the truck is a keeper. I'd weigh the cost of that bearing against the hassle of taking that assembly out of there a second time, in the middle of a big snowstorm. Then I'd stop wasting my limited brain power, go buy the bearing, and put it in there this time while the truck is in the nice dry shop.

 

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chevytaHOE5674

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• Oct 31, 2011

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Done a few dozen of those. Speedi sleeve and a new seal and they are good to go for a few hundred thousand more miles. hahaha

 

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DeltaRed

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• Oct 31, 2011

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Not to be the"village idiot" here,but what is that thing?

 

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luv2wrench

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• Oct 31, 2011

• #1

Hey allan, whats your 20 in nebraska??

 

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Allan in NE

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• Oct 31, 2011

• #1

South of Chadron in the hills.

You?

Allan

 

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Allan in NE

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• Oct 31, 2011

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Right extension and shift mechanism of the Chevy front differential.

Allan

 

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Paul from MI

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• Oct 31, 2011

• #1

Thought that sounded familiar. We went thru Chadron last fall on our way, kind of round about , to Seattle from Michigan. Pretty open country. Glad I got to see it.