Strangest thing you've found inside a tractor

biggerred · Mar 8, 2015

I bought a Farmall 400 as a parts tractor and after I drained the oil from the rearend and pulled off the deck cover, I found an old Western Auto wrench. One end is worn down by half the thickness, and the other end is pinged up some. It's a wonder it didn't get locked up in the gears.

Brown Swiss · Mar 8, 2015

Not the strangest thing but I use to service the equipment at an underground sand mine and after they blasted they ran a mill on a 330 Cat to knock down the loose stuff. Go to do the paper work and behind the seat sometimes were tubes of C-4 that didn't go off. Just made the hair on the back of my neck raise.

jon f mn · Mar 8, 2015

Not a teactor, but a trailer. Did a complete rebuild on a 20k trailer suspension and brakes for a customer one spring. When he came back the next spring for his anual checkup I found my 3' snapon pry bar sitting on the I-beam flange right above the suspension, right where I left it the year before. It was held there by the bolts attaching the suspension to the frame. The customer estimated 12,000 miles in between.

bison · Mar 8, 2015

I once found a pry bar laying in an oil pan.
I also found a 2' tire iron laying under the tube in a rear tractor tire when fixing a flat for a guy. The iron had been just an hair short of wearing a hole trough the tire but it had gone trough the tube.

Billy Shafer · Mar 8, 2015

I was helping restore an old DNX Hercules. Found a 1/4 socket set sitting in the sludge.

JD Seller · Mar 8, 2015

I bought a Dodge pickup and when I serviced it the first time I found a Snap On wrench stuck on the nut of a cross member bolt. I bet that when the truck was being built the guy impacted the bolt tight and could not get the wrench off an just left it there.

Bob · Mar 8, 2015

The remains of a pack of Camels sucked against the transmission sump screen of my 8630 John Deere.

shaun wallace · Mar 8, 2015

Not what I have found but dropped 7/16 in 65 MF hyd system about 40 years ago. someone proably found by now.

Mike(NEOhio) · Mar 8, 2015

Back in the mid-70's I bought a John Deere H. First time I changed oil a couple of steel balls came out. Years later I tore it down. There were some broken piston rings and a governor flyweight pin with the cotters bent around just like the ones on the governor. Rings were on the pistons and all was original. Never did figure out where the balls were supposed to be. Too big to be from any of the bearings.

CGID · Mar 8, 2015

In the steering arm on an IH Super A, where there should have been a tie-rod seat with a pocket on each side for the tie rod ends, there was a 1/2 inch nut. The corners had been ground off to make the body of the nut cylindrical so it would fit in the steering arm. The openings on each side of the nut served as seats for balls on the tie-rod ends. There was a tremendous amount of wear, the tie-rod balls nearly met in the center but it worked so well I didn't know anything was amiss.

RAW in · Mar 8, 2015

Unless there were blasting caps in the C-4 it is safe. Will not go off without a cap. In Nam we used it to heat our c-rations. Burned real hot!

JMS/.MN · Mar 8, 2015

Three-quarter inch combination wrench inside a D17 gas tank, after owning it for about 15 years.

oleclint · Mar 8, 2015

When removing the P T O from a M-M 'U' tractor I pulled out one extra PTO 'inner' shaft. I heard a 'clunking' sound once in a great while, wasn t to worried about it , but found out what it was then. No damage to anything! clint

D Slater · Mar 8, 2015

8 inch 3/8 drive extension bent and worn in to, also in a f-400 rear end. Imprint was in some bull gear teeth and it made it under the bull gear some without pushing the transmission housing out.

James Howell · Mar 8, 2015

"John B" our 43B was having a fuel flow problem.

Tractor was starving for gas, but had gas in the tank.

Started checking at the carburetor and worked back to the bottom of the tank.

The photo below shows the pieces of wood we pulled out of the tank.

The two kitchen tools and fuel control rod were used to remove the wooden pieces.

blueridge · Mar 8, 2015

when i restored my Massey Super 101, it was getting hot, had the remains of a foam seat cushion on seat & kids had taken radiator cap off and lost at p.o. barn. mice had carried that foam to radiator for nest, i took radiator off and turned it upside down & ran water through it for hours, finally got it all out i think, but has never gotten hot again. also bought a Farmall A that had a large craftsman screwdriver in tank rolling around, also someone had shot breather cap with 22 many times.

bison · Mar 8, 2015

I have a Allis 940 wheel loader that just died one day.

Upon investigating the cause why it just quit and would not fire again I found a bee blocking the fuel return line connector on top of the injection pump.
I have no clue how it got there

BIG RUH · Mar 8, 2015

About 7 years ago when I took the oil pan off of my Massey Harris 333, I found a butcher knife.

wolfman · Mar 8, 2015

I bought a slightly used Int 574 that an old guy had for sale, the seat refused to slide back enough. Started to dis-assemble and found a pony shoe wedged in there. Considered that luck. Same tractor a couple years later developed a hugh hard lump in the sidewall of a front tire. It was a big lucky stone between the tube and tire.

Richard from SE AZ · Mar 8, 2015

I bought a 42 N parts tractor. Took it apart and found a Bouliva watch with a broken twist band in the tranny case. Watch was full of oil.

Tvertiz · Mar 8, 2015

One of the guys out in the field pulled out a east wing hammer whem they were putting in a sewer line, he fpgave it to me and I still use it. He said it was about 4 feet down.

37chief · Mar 9, 2015

Found a golf ball in my fuel tank. Stan

56oliver · Mar 9, 2015

Found a really old screwdriver and a socket inside the tank of a John deer B

Dan Richardson · Mar 9, 2015

Started an overhaul on a 42 B. I mentioned to a friend that whoever did the last overhaul used a big hammer. Sure next to the oil pickup screen was a big hammer handle wedge.

JimIA · Mar 9, 2015

Im betting that's the measuring stick the farmer used to see what his level was!

centash · Mar 9, 2015

That bee probably was nesting in the nozzle of the fuel supply tank and got pumped into the tractor when filling it. Ben

jethrow4 · Mar 9, 2015

First start of my Oliver OC-3 crawler/loader was a steam bath. Fooled around and finally took the radiator to a shop where they pulled out 2 gym socks.

bison · Mar 9, 2015

(quoted from post at 06:40:03 03/09/15) That bee probably was nesting in the nozzle of the fuel supply tank and got pumped into the tractor when filling it. Ben

hat might be how it got in the tank but how in "ell did it get past the lift pump and trough the filter and IP intact??
Or for that matter climb uphill against the flow trough 3 feet of 1/4" fuel filled return line to the injector return line and then downhill to the injection pump.
The bee did not have any scuba diving gear with him that i noticed.lol

centash · Mar 9, 2015

Hmmmmm...by gol, you've got me there!!

rbhuntn · Mar 9, 2015

Not on a tractor but many years back when I was a mechanic on F-16's in the USAF I pulled a panel from under a wing and found a 6 inch pair of needle nose pliers sitting there beside the flight control actuator rod. Surprised it never slid over and jammed the bearing.

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