Re: George Goodwin

Posted by ScottyHOMEy on January 23, 2009 at 11:59:11 from (70.105.253.36):

In Reply to: Re: George Goodwin posted by Hugh MacKay on January 23, 2009 at 09:47:40:

The old RedRev.

Yep, that was maybe the first weird situation I ever got into on the boards. A lot of folks got their noses out of joint when he sold it after I helped fix his clutch. The bothersome part is that he and I were square on that issue -- he told me up front that he was going to have to sell it, even put a price out if I wanted it. (Reasonable, too, but I couldn't swing it at the time and wouldn't have had a place to put it if I could have.) Made no difference to me. If he'd needed help fixin' it to use it or to get it ready to sell, I'd have helped either way, just for the experience and enjoyment.

He'd paid top dollar for it "restored" and paid to have it hauled up from Texas, I believe. When I got to it, the clutch fingers were so slack that the throwout bearing couldn't reach them. I don't know how they got it off the trailer.

Whatever his infirmities, George was a good sport and a good right hand, sittin' on a stool, workin' the handle on the floor jack to let the hydraulic tank down and handin' me tools while I went at the rest of it. Wrassle as I did, I could NOT get that clutch down out of there. That and, despite his pastoral vocation, he was remarkably tolerant of my efforts at verbal lubrication and motivation of spiritually inert tractor parts, some of which was quite colorful. In the end, I marked a shim and we turned the motor as I set the fingers to meet the face of the bearing, and then locked down the jam nuts. Biggest recollection is that there was a lot of VERY fine grit stuck to eerything up in there, most likely from sandblasting, to make her look good on the outside. Probably just as well that I couldn't get the clutch out and adjusted her in place, just for the sake of keepin' the abrasive crud out of things.

I thought it was a good day's enjoyable, rewarding work and got a little resentful myself of the heat he took for selling it not long after. My view is (and was) if I was alright with the arrangement, I was the only one with any time or effort in helping him out, and could not grasp hy anybody else had any standing to be upset about it if I wasn't. Oh, well.

If I'm able to scare him up, I'll mention you to him. Apart from that I'll let you know what, if anything, I learn. If you'd like, ping me and I'll share your email with him or his with you, as you prefer, if I should make contact.

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