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grayrider

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First off, you safety guys, I only towed it 2-1/2 miles back to my place on a rural road, hence the one strap, lol

I saw this little cub last week in a barn when I was picking up a set of two row planters, the owner said he was thinking about selling it and that I could have it for a $1000, I thought about it but passed on it. Next day he?s got it on Craigslist for $1500, I went over today and drove it, mowed with it and loaded it up on my trailer for $800, it came with a belly mounted cultivator too.

It has an oil leak that I?m going to have to fix soon, the rear main is leaking, has anyone split one of these cubs and made that repair? May post something on the International forum too...It runs really good, cuts nice, good hydraulics and brakes
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Never met a single vehicle on the old dirt road, no traffic til Sunday when church traffic eases through, should have drove the cub back to the barn, 3rd gear is fast on it....
 
Do not take it wrong; was just messing with you.

Nice tractor.

Have been in your neck of the woods past 2 weeks covering for guys on vacation.
Met the driver coming out of Atlanta in Evergreen to swap trailers and go back home every night.
We work while you sleep so you can get your stuff next day.
 
It has some oversized atv tires on front that I really like, makes it beefier looking, steers good
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I hope that you did not have it in gear to help hold it. Young fella old has had many tractors start while on a trailer due to rolling ahead while in gear during heavy braking
 
Yah, my buddy told his girlfriend something like that when we were in high school ..... "We're pretty safe, this condom is only 2 1/2 years old so it's still in good shape" ...... you know the rest of the story.
 
Nice Cub and good price. I have three Cubs and have split several. It is not a big job at all. Rig up some type of stand for the rear and I use chain host on the engine. Cut some wooden wedges and bump them in on the top of the front axle toward where the axle is pinned in the center. This will keep it from pivoting when you separate it. As far as the rear main seal, if you go to your local parts srore and get the seal, or even Case IH it is probably going to leak again soon. For some reason the new seals are a fracrion too small where they fit in in carrier. There are some people that will machine your carrier and install a seal that fits as it should. Save your self some time and headaches and go to Farmall Cub.com and go to the Cub forum there. Ask the guys on there about this and you will probably get better information there. They are the experts on these little tractors. I think I have a card in my shop on the guy that machined mine but they can also tell you. Good luck, I am by no means an expert on the Cubs but as I said, I have three and all were close to junk when I got them. Great garden tractor with the cultivators.
 
(quoted from post at 13:30:48 08/04/18) Been hauling tractors 40 years and never heard of that, I
always leave mine in gear
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Yeah, Old hasn't told that story in a few years.
 
As to the rear main oil seal, there is a problem with current oil seals not fitting tight enough to stay in place. One of the members of Farmallcub dot com redoes your retainer for a new seal for about $45 including the new seal.
 
2-1/2 miles with no steep hills I probably would not have even put the one strap on. But then again, I watch what I'm doing when I drive.
 
Belgian ..... you're right, but even more sobering is the fact that in a lot of accidents with unsecured loads, it's not necessarily the hauler that gets it in the neck, it's some innocent bystander on the other side of the road going the other way.
 
By the way you have the standard seat. If you want a real nice ride see if you can pick up a delux seat. The are a rectangular dropin seat with a frame that bolts onto the tractor. Makes for a much comfy type of ride. Think the tires look neat. They were made all the way up to 1979. I have a 77.
 
I don?t think some of you guys grasps the meaning of my humor on the comment about the safety police and the one strap that I used on the tractor to haul it home. I?ve been hauling equipment a long time and it does get a lot of attention on here at times about the method someone did or didn?t do to secure a load the correct way. I live out in the sticks and brought it home on a dirt road no one even has a home on and if I had of ventured way off to get it on well traveled roadways it would have been secured with more straps. Seems like I got more comments about tractor hauling safety than what I actually need to know about repairing the oil leak, thanks for all the replies either way.
 
Picture of the atv tires, I like them too, the YT tire police probably don?t like them though.....
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With a trailer like yours I wouldn’t even have strapped it down for 2 1/2 miles down a dirt road. I suppose something could have happened at 10-15 mph but not much.
 
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