Messing around in the shop

JSinMO · Post by **JSinMO** » Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:30 pm

Holy cow fellas, i had quite a busy time in the shop this weekend, a one step forward two steps back situation.

Got the oil change in the mower and cut grass for the first time this year. Seems a little early but it needed it. I pulled back to the shop to find a flat tire on the side by side. I see it’s a cut not a hole I can plug so I figured I’d break down the tire and put a tube in. I beat on it, put the backhoe on it, tried using jacks, etc.

I can’t get the bead to break loose!

I finally gave up. Thoroughly defeated and aggravated I put it in the trunk of the car. Hopefully I can get it broke down by a shop tomorrow.

I went over the brush hog I put the blades on last fall. All greased up and gear box oil topped off! Won’t be long now and it will be getting some use!

The 2N has been running great then today it started missing and sputtering and finally died. I could get it to start but is ran terribly. What in the world happened? I looked it over and found the problem.

The coil is almost cracked in two! Luckily I have a good friend up the road aways that has several N series Fords and he let me borrow a coil until I can get a new one.

It’s kind of funny, even on the days that I’m really busy and things don’t really go smoothly, I’m still completely content messing around in the shop!

DavidBarkey · Post by **DavidBarkey** » Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:37 am

The low pressure tubeless wheels like what is on an Atv or Utv have a larger bead lock ridge than most wheels making them a pain to brake down unless you have a machine . So don't feel bad about struggling with them . I have a small tire machine for the lawn mower tire but take all the other stuff to the tire shop up the road . It is just not worth the struggle .

DavidBarkey · Post by **DavidBarkey** » Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:43 am

Are those Fords called "N" series for "N"ot today , I am having a breakdown .

I never worked with one but I hear they are very reliable little tractors . Wonder what caused the coil to split like that .

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:18 am

We use to drive over the edge of car tires to break the bead when I was a younger man and then wrestle the tire. I used my HF 20 ton press to break the bead on GT tires but now bought a HF small tire machine. Some still need a bit if wrangling to remove.

Harry

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:19 am

We use to drive over the edge of car tires to break the bead when I was a younger man and then wrestle the tire. I used my HF 20 ton press to break the bead on GT tires but now bought a HF small tire machine. Some still need a bit if wrangling to remove.

Harry

JSinMO · Post by **JSinMO** » Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:48 pm

DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:43 am Are those Fords called "N" series for "N"ot today , I am having a breakdown .

I never worked with one but I hear they are very reliable little tractors . Wonder what caused the coil to split like that .

That was certainly what it said yesterday!

I have no idea why it split, I’ve heard they can get moisture inside and do that but I don’t know if that’s what happened here. I can tell you for sure it won’t run right like that!

JSinMO · Post by **JSinMO** » Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:14 pm

This episode of messing around in the shop is from a couple of days ago. The Farmall Cub has been on my mind and I decided it was time to wake it up!
I hooked a chain to it and towed it out of hibernation with the 446.

The poor old cub has been sitting for at least 2 years and probably closer to 3. I check the oil and looked in the gas tank. It smelled like bad rotten gas.

But I wondered if it would pop off so I cleaned the battery terminals and hooked up a jump pack. Four revolutions of the engine and it was running!

It had no oil pressure so I shut it down fast. I guess it sat long enough for the oil pump to go dry. If you ever mess with one of these, they are easy to prime. Just take the oil filter element out of the housing and find the hole at the back of the housing.

Fill that hole with oil and it’s primed. I started it back up and the pressure built quickly.

I want to give it a little work so I attached the plow.
And gave it a bath. I think it cleaned up pretty good!

This was the first tractor I bought for myself and fixed up, quite a long time ago now. I guess this one started the addiction! Getting back in the seat felt like getting in touch with an old friend, very pleasant and comfortable.

While I was moving some things around the back of the shop I found an old set of fenders for a Farmall H or M that I had forgotten about and decided to see how they looked on the Super H. Back in the day fenders were an option. It’s hard to find a tractor with them around here, but I see a lot of them with fenders up north.

I think they look good on the tractor but they are too close to the platform for my liking. I think they would be better moved over closer to the tires.

Hopefully it won’t be long and I’ll be back in the shop to give the Cub a workout, and make some spacers for the fenders!

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:02 pm

Raining the last few days so while paint was drying on the GT hood in the shop I worked in the lean to. When I switched the shop over to LED lights I purchased three lights for the lean to which is attached to the back of the shop building. I ran a power line from breaker box through the wall to a box in lean to. Then ran wiring to a switch, to the lights an outlet for a drop light and an outlet on the wall for my trickle charger. Three exhausting days for grandpa here, going up and down the ladder more times than I can count. It will be so nice to have electric in the lean to instead of just an extension cord on the ground. I enjoy improvement projects for the shop as much as working on the GT’s.

Harry