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[dells68 7,494]

Go Kev!  You can do it!  Have fun next weekend - I’m kind of jealous, wish it was closer to me!

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4 minutes ago, dells68 said:

Go Kev!  You can do it!  Have fun next weekend - I’m kind of jealous, wish it was closer to me!

 

Plane ticket to Milwaukee and a rental car would make it closer!

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The batteries are disconnected, shifter is removed and tires are off to save a little weight on the hoist pump.  It really looks pretty straight forward.  I’m so glad to be working on a Texan / Oklahoman truck, this thing has no rust to battle with!

 

 

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No surprises yet...  so long as I can clear the shifter as the trans slides out, I should be setting pretty good!  Everything but the hellhousing bolts and the slave cylinder hydraulic line are removed.

 

And now, it’s time for some pool fun.

 

 

 

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Check out the mass of flywheel!  I know I’ve got a new hanging weight for the garden tractors!

The new assembly is 70 lbs according to UPS tracking.

 

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I Pullstart, will never Pushstart a diesel truck, ever ever ever again.  Amen.

 

If anyone sees anything that could work on their WH, I’ll make ya a heck of a deal!

 

 

 

[diesel cowboy 263]

  That's from trying to pop start it? 

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2 minutes ago, diesel cowboy said:

  That's from trying to pop start it? 

 

Yep.  

 

I replaced the far from iffy carrier bearing while I wait for the clutch to arrive.  This posi lock puller is just awesome.  Without a tall enough arbor press, this is the next best thing.  After cleaning up the shaft with 80 and 320 grit emory paper, I miced everything and I was looking at about .0005” press so I used a piece of pipe as a slide hammer and it all went together well.  The slinger seal was a bit more of a crude press, so that needed a bit of persuasion from a big ole’ hammer.

 

 Next is pulling the flywheel and cleaning up the back of the engine.

 

 

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Sometimes you just have to have the right tool for the job.  Sometimes you’ve got to make the tool!  I trimmed up an old die making 14mm Allen wrench and used the trimming with my impact to spin the bolts out.  They sure are massive!

 

 

 

 

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It’s time to get to work!

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These parts are so pretty....

 

Those bolt heads for the flywheel are 24 mm!  Woah!

 

 

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I think there’s a tool to hold a flywheel in place, but for this time we can improvise!  The old pressure plate was screwed on finger tight, then strapped to the torsion bars.  It didn’t budge and 4 rounds of torque up to 150 lb-ft!  Time for brake cleaner on all friction surfaces, then more assembly!

 

 

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The disc is centered and the clutch components are all torqued to spec.  I confirmed the disc is on center by pulling the alignment tool, rotating the tool and re-inserting it into the splines and pilot bearing numerous times.  

 

I hope to get this buttoned up tonight yet, but need to figure out how to replace the m/c.  Everything just snaps together... I don’t know what holds it in place!

 

 

[BHunter 1,651]

4 hours ago, pullstart said:

It’s time to get to work!

Is that clutch from the famous town in Indiana where our beloved tractors were built? 

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1 hour ago, BHunter said:

Is that clutch from the famous town in Indiana where our beloved tractors were built? 

 

I have zero idea, but it would make sense...  

 

we we have a runner!  With a new whole hydraulic system, it seems like it drives more like a car.  So smooth, I wonder if there was an issue when I bought it!

 

 

[ebinmaine 63,095]

AWESOME!!!!

[BHunter 1,651]

That’s great. It’s possible there was a previous problem. 

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Just now, BHunter said:

That’s great. It’s possible there was a previous problem. 

 

The fingers of the pressure plate are absolutely mangled and warped...  After finding them, I realized that maybe the hydraulics were just at their maximum stroke and had no real issue.

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I’ve been running the Hilo ragged a bit lately.  The fork tilt lines are bad.  One is blistered and the other blew.  I ordered a couple new custom lines from the local auto shop and they should be ready this afternoon, however I cannot reach one line from the block without a bit of custom wrench modification.  I picked up a K-tools wrench while I was ordering lines.  I’ll hit it with the hot wrench and give it a 90 degree bend to pop the line loose.  Hopefully.

 

 

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I heated it with the torch and bent it slowly.  A bit of used oil sludge helped to heat treat/quench it.

[953 nut 51,647]

Some days you gotta do what you gotta do!  Too bad you couldn't get a crow's foot in there to turn it. get a bunch more torque with one of those.

[Tractorhead 8,610]

Not a real funny installation there.

 

crossing fingers, you bended Wrench works.

i had a set of bended wrenches, one in 90 deg‘s, one in 67 deg. And one in 30 deg.

Don‘t ask me why they have their Angles, they was made by my Dad several years ago,

but they solved mostly all my problems with less space.

 

Only one issue occurs sometimes, 

if i need them, they will be sometimes invisible....😎

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After straightening then bending it closer, I ended up cutting and welding it.  Fingers crossed, it’ll get in there!

 

 

[Stormin 9,975]

 I did that with some when I was working. Left them with the lads in the department workshop I was in charge of.

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1 minute ago, Stormin said:

 I did that with some when I was working. Left them with the lads in the department workshop I was in charge of.

 

To think I could’a borrowed one from ya!

 

a bit of grinding, we’re in business!

 

this hose isn’t even a good spare, it’s good as junk.