Posted by Hal --WA on December 04, 2008 at 16:41:35 from (208.81.157.90):
In Reply to: Worst breakdown posted by 37chief on December 03, 2008 at 22:52:37:
Back in the 60's we had a VAC Case with a narrow frontend. One day my buddy was using it in one of our fields disking and, without any warning, the front axle broke off the upright steering shaft. The front wheels stayed on the spindles, and they rolled back under the oil pan, almost to the transmission before my buddy got the tractor stopped. He walked back to the house to tell us what had happened.
The old Case just sat there for a few days until we were able to get a replacement part. As I remember it, my Dad was able to get a used frontend for about $25 at a tractor salvage place. We fixed the Case right there in the field by jacking it up and blocking it. The Case still had that frontend on it when my Brother traded it in about 25 years later.
I was sure glad my buddy had the presence of mind to push in the clutch so fast and get the Case stopped. If he had not, or if the front wheels had not kept supporting the front half of the tractor, I don't know what might have happened. My buddy might have been badly injured or killed if he got thrown off and run over, and it probably would have wrecked the nice old Case. As it was, it turned out to be no big deal.
No warning at all. I suppose the shaft was cracked where the spindles connect to the upright shaft. The tractor had always steered just fine. Marv didn't remember any bumps just before the shaft broke. Just all of a sudden, the front wheels were no longer where they should have been.
Sure glad it didn't happen at one of those times when we were going down the paved road at relatively high speed. You really need to have front wheels!
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