Grubby's Greasy Wrench- Old Tractor Revival

08/20/2023

12/31/2021

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12/02/2021

“Think you could get all the belts and everything in it for me? All I want is for the rototiller to work so I can till my garden, but if you could fix the speed adjustment lever thing (variator) that’d be cool too”

Over the summer, a buddy of mine put together this square fender 110 out of bits and pieces of a few different 110s and 112s. Used it to til his garden this fall and just about got done before smoking a couple belts.

Now that firearm deer season is over, I’ll have some time to get into it. Between my daughter’s basketball and son’s wrestling. 🤣

Parts are easy enough to come by, belts can be had at NAPA or just about any auto parts store. But these ol girls are finicky. If everything isn’t juuuuuuust right, they’ll throw/smoke/shred a belt. Also, the sheaves on the variator input shaft tend to seize and render it useless, so I’ll get them freed up too. Hopefully.

10/02/2021

I’d like to dedicate this page to all the teachers and guidance counselors that told me knowledge of old tractors and how to fix them would never pay my bills. Y’all were right, it doesn’t pay for my bills. Just my vacations and hobbies 😎🤣

10/01/2021

So what’s next?

Well, gonna take the loader and blade off of this 520, get it in the barn so the hood can come off, and put a new wiring harness on it. Sounds weird right, a wiring harness on a 65ish year old tractor; but after replacing the starter and switch, that’s the next step.

Wait and see how it turns out.

09/25/2021

Evidently the market ain’t down in Lancaster. Saw an Ertl 720 Precision went for $1,495.00 too. Somebody made bank today.

09/25/2021

It’s a family affair, it’s in our blood.

09/25/2021

Worked on a 1936 John Deere model A recently. Main problem was it would over rev when the throttle was advanced off low idle. 1936 A high idle was supposed to be 975 rpm, this ol girl would spool up to around 1500 as soon as you cracked it off low idle.

Went through diagnosis and repair step by step.

First checked the adjustment of the throttle linkages. They were off a little, but nothing terrible. Definitely seen much worse. Adjusted them correctly, started the tractor again and still had an over rev issue.

Pulled the side cover on the governor expecting to find a missing weight, but both weights were present, but the were not installed correctly. On later styled models you can remove the pins and reinstall the weights without removing the governor from the tractor. Unstyled tractors though, governor has to come off. Once it was off the tractor and on the bench it was a simple process of removing cotter pins, removing the weights from the arms, then reinstalling the weights on the arms with the forks in the proper place on the shaft. Had to tap out a new gasket then reinstall the governor.

That took care of it, started her up again and there was no more over revving.

After that, had to remove the flywheel to align the crank oil slinger with the key in the flywheel. Special wrenches are required to do so. You can break the bolts free with box end wrenches, a lot of patience and sweat; but will struggle to apply the 275 lbs-ft of torque on reassembly without them. Fortunately, we have the right wrenches. Aligned the slinger, reinstalled the flywheel, and grunted down the torque.

Then she got a seasonal clutch adjustment and a new fuel line from the sediment bowl to the carb and was ready to go back home.