Today I was going to bring the tractor back into the shop. Went to get it turned the key and it wouldn’t start! Choke, no choke, more throttle, less throttle didn’t matter. It would just sputter and die. The temperature was around 32F and the thought jumped into my head, “ this isn’t going to be one that doesn’t like to start in the winter is it?”
I fiddled around with it a little more then another thought came to me, “Life is hard, but it’s a lot harder if you’re stupid”. You know, as great as these Case tractors are they just refuse to run without fuel!
Yup, a little gas in the tank and it fires right up!
So back to the plan. Todays goal was to check the rear end and work on snow skies for the blade.
Tear down went easy and I think it’s safe to say nobody has been in here for a long time.
It’s always a fingers crossed moment when I open something like this up!
Hey it looks good! Bolts are tight, no broken teeth, everything moved well, no water in the oil. So it was a drain, clean out the gunk in the bottom, and refill.
I probably didn’t need to open that up, but if I hadn’t it would alway be in the back of my mind wondering if it was good to go, or ready to break.
With the back end reassembled, time to move on to the blade. Here’s what I came up with to keep the blade from digging into my gravel.
I realize it’s poorly make with crappy welds, but I say it’s FUBAR. Which of course means Formed Using the Best Available Resources! In other words I made them with junk I had laying around.
I drove around with the blade down for a bit and it seems to work fine. Didn’t pick up any gravel. We’ll see how it does when we’re actually pushing snow!
If it doesn’t work well, then I’ll take them off and put a piece of pipe on it!