I enjoy your videos, your dad has so much joy and pride in your tractors. 830’s are an amazing machine. I sold mine to put my wife through nursing school. Just acquired ANOTHER D, they are more fun for me.
My dad ran two cylinders when he was a kid. They had a 60 and later an electric start 730 D. But the first one we bought to restore was a model D. I've posted dune videos of that tractor. It doesn't run well, but it always starts. Even in the coolest weather. So we've never torn into the engine. But my dad has said several times he'd like to rebuild that engine next.
I'm excited to get to work with this. I've spent a lot of time on our A's and B's and our 70... But never anything as big as the 830. So it will be fun.
Very interesting and that tractor hard life but be fix up with dad and yourself Joelnstar be nice tractor when repairs done! Very good information about the one talking about!
I've been known to use Permatex #2 and Aviation for gastets and seals and never be surprised at what you find when you get something from someone else. There is ALWAYS something goofier than the last time. God Bless!
I guess it goes to show you should always inspect your equipment. Somehow we missed these broken supports. But hopefully with them now fixed (in a future video) then we won't have any other issues
There's always surprises. That's what makes fixing stuff interesting. And improving stuff is just as interesting. And there's no way you can find out these things until you get down to where they are. Glad Pop is out and about. Stay warm up there!@@jonelsonster
I try. I'm not a farmer but drove trucks, worked quarries and concrete plants and ran equipment all my life. I'm there with yall when the goofy stuff comes to pass.@@jonelsonster
It will have a good life from here on out. Work hard a few days a year, but the rest of the time in a barn chilling with it's little brother's (all the other tractors 😂)
I have a 58 720 diesel. It has a third main bearing. I think all the diesels did. If I recall, deere tried to make a diesel out of the model D originally and found they needed a third main bearing and that lead to the R engine ultimately.
Model R only has two main bearings. There were reports of issues with the crank on the R so they added the 3rd bearing. But I wasn't aware the 720 had 3 mains too. That's cool. Did the gas 720 have 3 mains too? I also wonder if the 70 has 3?
@jonelsonster I don't believe the gas 720 gas has a third main, but I bet the 70 diesel does. I don't think there's much difference in the crankcase between a 70 and 720. I do know midway through the 720 diesel they made a change to the camshaft to make it less likely to run backwards. I guess the early 720 diesel would take off backwards if it was lugged down too low and then puke all the oil out of the air breather all over the hood. I swear I remember reading in one of my library of books on Deere that they tried to make a diesel based on the D engine and found the crank wouldn't take the added load.
I wonder if that cab on the tractor was dropped on somehow. Certainly this 830 had had a hard life almost sounds like it was abused more than it was maintained in its previous life.
I wondered if the weight of the cab (it was supported by being welded to the dash) caused the cast fuel tank supports to fatigue and fail. Because it is obvious that didn't run into anything to cause the damage since there are no defects in the sheet metal or the cab. Maintenance seems to have occurred because the tractor runs perfectly and inside the crankcrease it is very clean.
Can't see it having had a hard life when it fired up so easily. Dad found the valves out of adjustment for some reason but a tractor that's had a hard life would be low on compression and hard starting. This certainly doesn't appear to have any problems compression wise.
Ha ha... That might be the most boring video ever uploaded to RU-vid! Just imagine lying on your back for hours, scrubbing old grease and dust off the underside of the tractor. I've got to do it on my 830-I and maybe I'll get some footage.
