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Charlie M

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In my opinion the dirtiest repair you can do on a tractor is change the oil seals that affect brakes. So far this year I have changed the seals on both sides of my Super C and got about a half cup of oil from
each side, the left side on my BN and should finish today both axle seals on my 100. They are all the result of leaking and turning into sludge and just a greasy mess everywhere you look and touch. I bought
them that way so its a build up of many years. It will be nice to have no leaks and working brakes again. My next adventure sometime this year will be PTO and belt pully seals on each of them.
 
That is bad. Degreasing and removing 3/4 inch of 50 year old Metamorphic conglomerate from places one should not use a pressure washer is also nasty. Jim
 
For dried on grease, use a needle scaler to remove as much as you can, then solvent and a wire brush for the rest.
 
Axle seals are messy
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You only think that's the dirtiest because you haven't done a clutch job on a dairy tractor! It doesn't get any worse than that!
 
Yep! Right out of high school, my first real paying (barely) job. First assignment, a redo from the bosses kid half a$$ attempt to replace the U bolts on the rear axle of a city garbage truck. Everything was left loose, the alignment bolts sheared, axle twisted.

It had sat out in the parking lot for a month, still had garbage in it, rained in it a couple times. It was dripping rotten goo and maggots, flies swarming, 100 degree days...

Minimal tools to work with, no help, laying in the gravel... I barely weighed 100 lbs back then, but I got it done!

Earned my $80 that week!
 
I can relate to the dairy equipment repairs! Not much smells worse than burnt cow crap!!! Mine was aa broken feeder wagon bed chain with a load of composted chicken manure!!! I love farming!!!
 

They are a pleasure. I was a field mechanic at the CAT dealer for 14 years, and I had more than my share of those and the compactors as well. They all had extra guards, seals around seals ans other inconvenient modifications, and then there was the trash. The metal on those tracks get a nasty oily film on them that wont come off. I had a good dose of front end loaders on dairies as well.
 
Dealer I worked for sold a Ford skidder to the local rendering plant.
It had to come to the shop for something. The clean up kid was gonna
steam clean it. I told him, either showroom clean EVERYWHERE, underneath,
engine compartment, everything, or don't touch it!!!!
Most of the dirt was dry material, but I knew if it got wet,
it would stink to high Heaven.
It was a nice day, so I repaired it outside on a nice grassy spot.
 
Elevator pits rank right up there with the rest of them. I didn't find out loader that bad to work on with all the cows we had. I guess I was just used to the smell of cow so didn't bother me. Welded on the bucket to replace the cutting edge a few times cut off the old one and weld in the new one. Usually had to do it in the winter outside. Dad could find the best jobs to have to do in the cold like that.
 
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