Senior giving you the gears over power steering by turning the wheel using one finger was great. Getting to see the machines is good, but hearing you two having a laugh over a bit of heckling is fun too.
It all starts with the clutch, then the injectors. Before you know it, red paint is being sprayed! Can't wait! Does the 300 have power steering as manufactured, or is that an addition?
I’ve been waiting for some Farmall content. Were you also planning on doing some rear end work o. The H eventually? I thought you had picked up a parts rear end awhile ago.
Nice video of an honest cold start and by that I mean admitting that it is plugged in and that it has dual block heaters! And yes those tank heaters are over rated or they are energy efficient which means useless! My Dad had a 17.5 ton mobile crane and it had a Chrysler industrial flat head in the upper house and a Red Diamond international 450 in the lower and both had tank heaters 1500 watts each and it would start at-43 Celsius and that’s the gospel truth but tank heaters now a days are a waste of money but good for you for using the good sense God gave you and put the block heaters on!
Even with that oddball Continental it still sounds like a 350. Must be the muffler. I just traded one of my Squarebody Chevys for a 57 350 Diesel Utility. Sounds a little different as it still has an original IH muffler on it.
Just wondering does that 350 has electric start on diesel or did he start it straight on diesel without gas first. I do know how the super md works but does that age tractor have the electric start with diesel. I understand he plugged it in so that makes me wonder how it was done. Also I just haven't heard many diesels like that run much. We do more gas tractors but my dad's buddy from church wants us to try a smta diesel like he has.
Hi Senior and, err, Junior. Welcome to the New Year. We all wish you a good one of course. Great to see the two of you working so well, lovingly in fact, together. Enjoy life. Warm regards!
Thanks for sharing all your projects with us. It sure fixes my tinkering itch when I can’t tinker on my own stuff. There is just something about old equipment that makes it so fun!
Very cool Squatch. With the local Ford dealer closing down and all your experience and quality of work attitude - have you considered tapping into the local service market to set up your own business? I am. Sure there would be plenty of locals wanting you to work on their machinery.
I'm so excited to see work done on this Farmall! I let a few hundred dollars of disagreement keep me from owning one of these a handful of years ago and have regretted it ever since.
Hi folks, most of you will know all about 'Staging'. I learnt years ago from one of my sister-in-laws who was a senior ICU trained nurse in Canada. (Not USA! Look, you can't have everything!). I was repairing their wood deck and slightly hurt a finger. She disappeared off and came back with a complete Robert repair kit - all laid out carefully on a tray. I learnt two lessons then - take more care and get organised. It's a small part of why I love watching this channel.
I'm with Senior on this one: power steering is the bomb! I hauled 10s-of thousands of bales with a NH 1000 stack wagon behind a W-6 IHC with Armstrong steering and no live pto. It was a workout for a kid, especially backing the load into place.
At 3:55 in the video and right at the end…that sure looks like a Fairmont RO-C condenser & head under whatever is covered by the tarp & snow. Or is it some other 2-cycle air cooled engine?
@@squatch253 I used to own a CCKB powered car. Likely 30 years newer than what he’s got. Those RO-C were very simple but rugged machines. Old railroader told me one time, duct tape & bailing wire might keep a Ford on the road…the RO-C only needed the bailing wire
She fired right up like nothing.... I am just happy I can get the old M to run with the nearly 10 year old battery in it. I have been pretty cruel to that old battery. Ha ha. Looking forward to a new season of "Farmall 350D". 🙂
I used to hand crank an M that I called Emma. It didn't matter how cold the weather was, I could get her started as long as she had a little juice in the battery and fuel. It drove my brother nuts because he would have a fit trying to start her. It took me almost 7 years to teach him how to know when everything was right for her to start. He was too scared of flooding her and with hand cranking she had to be just starting to drip before opening the choke.
We sold this tractor to another IH collector that was able to give it a much better home early last spring. We knew it wasn't being given the respect that it was in need of here (all of our buildings are full of better tractors) and neither dad nor I had any plans to do anything with it at all, so selling it was a pretty easy decision to make :-)
Sweet. I started my tractor yesterday. It has a 4 cyl Perkins that I bought new in 1987. Hasn't been started in over a year. First bump of the starter and it popped off and purred like a kitten. Let it run for about 20 minutes to lube and warm up all the seals. I must have finally got all the air out of it cause for the last couple of years I always had to crack the injector lines and bleed it to get it to start. Now my next adventure is to get my 70-year-old body in the driver's seat. Not an easy task anymore.
This is my first ever comment. In all love your channel. Don't care if RU-vid rewards the vice-grip and sledgehammer crew.... specs and torque wrenches are better. I want to see the X231 (I think) Minneapolis-Moline project pushed along. I really enjoyed it 'til the D2 project took over... enjoyed that too.
This reminds me of when I was a mechanic at a Hyster dealer years ago. They had a big old H180E they wanted to use for jobs around the shop. It was an 18k capacity forklift dating back to the late 1960's or early '70's. It had a Perkins diesel 6cyl with manual transmission. There was a problem with the hydraulic clutch and didn't want to release. Turns out there was an item in the hydraulic oil supply plumbing called a scavenger pump. In reality, it was a little chamber next to the bell housing with a float in it to only allow a certain amount of hydraulic fluid into the bell housing. There was only supposed to be about a quart of fluid in the housing at one time flowing over the clutch assembly. Because the scavenger pump was not operating, it kept flooding the bell housing, making the clutch act more like a giant torque converter and forcing the transmission to still spin with the clutch assembly. After it was fixed, the thing ran great. The home office sold the thing out from under us because management cried about spending too much money to get it repaired and wanted to recoup costs. They'd already put in a rebuilt motor, hydraulic pump and a few hours to figure the clutch. All the fellow mechanics said as soon as it would run right, corporate would sell it and they did.
I had similar clutch issues, that was caused by oil on the clutch, then clutch becomes `sticky`, hence not releasing properly. Oil came through leaking crank seal.
Squatch, like you I don't like the appearance of alternators on older vehicles. I have come across a device called a Dynamator, which looks like a dynamo but behaves like an alternator, charging at idle etc. Best of both worlds.
Here's a project for ya, a snowblower for the ages, and it will keep Senior dry and warm while he uses it. But you'll need a taller shop.😅 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HbbukEET_5w.html
Hello from Cloquet, MN the gunsmith from up North! My son and I have a 1926 Fordson model F we are working on. Its nice to work with my son! It's nice to see you and your dad working together on projects. Good luck!
Yeah but finding generators especially ones are meant for those tractors for getting harder and harder each day and an alternator more sophisticated meaning of produces more electricity and it does it with less horsepower and torque some people will cringe at alternator on a tractor of the vintage year but I just see it's making it more usable
I have issues when I see tractors being driven around with no rear guards on. In the mid 80's a friend of mine was driving an old Ford with no guards. He had an oilskin coat on that got caught in the wheel, dragged him off and killed him. In front of his wife. It was not good.
Why do you not care for alternators? Is it because they're not factory? I've found them a little less problematic than generators. Both have worked well for me. Just curious. Stay warm bud!
Well........ great answer! I never really thought about it but you're right the short stubby, aluminum alternator doesn't look quite right compared to the longer painted case of a generator. And if you're geared up for rebuild all the better. Really enjoy the channel man, I've tried filming some of my projects and the extra time it takes is astonishing , so I appreciate the effort! Good luck and stay warm
It would be a good project to have after the D2 is finished but as I remember is there a prototype Minneapolis Moline tractor what ready to be put back together again
I guess it will start with something simple like broken split pin in the clutch, then the head will be off for some reason, then the rear wheel weights won't be correct the a dulux overhaul will be born. 90 deg in Sydney Australia. All the best
I had to track down the same type of situation with the clutch on a pickup that my brother had. It turned out to be the pilot bushing in the end of the crankshaft. It was a little too tight fitting on the input shaft because of having been damaged as part of a clutch replacement. After filling down the burrs and putting fresh grease in it, the clutch worked fine. I found out later that the guy who put the clutch in used the mounting bolts to pull the transmission up to the bell housing. The burrs were caused by using a hammer directly on the bushing to drive it in.
I was just looking in TractorHouse at International 450s. There are a couple decent looking units for sale. One looks like a it’s possibly a propane version.
Gotta wonder how many operators have done a back flip out of the seat when the battery box bolts come loose? How is it your shop seems to look bigger on the inside than it does from the outside?
Great to see another 350D living lol that sounds good compared to mine . Just guessing that one has original valves unlike mine we had intakes out of a Audi Car and the exhaust valves from a 5.9 cummins. I had my pump and injectors done about 20 years ago when it was last rebuilt . My clutch is not great but it shifts like it should but i also eliminated the TA and that makes it shift much easier . I still run a generator on mine and it works great and i need a new circulation heater since the 700 watt thats on smokes lol. great to see another 350D on yt so i dont feel alone lol
I watched a guy turn a gleaner combine into a snowblower he took out all the combine parts and dropped the motor lower anhooked cab lower upgraded the hydraulic system and hooked up a lyster snowplow to the front like it was on a three point hitch the name of the video was combine converted to snowblower by hrodd.
I had a old case VC once and the clutch would not release even if you stood on the brakes . turned out the clutch disk and pressure plate were recessed in the flywheel . there was very little clearance on the outer dia. - cleaned out the dirt an crud and all was right with the world .
Meanwhile, i spent my New Year in shorts and t-shirt sitting on the roof, looking at all the festivities. Man, you guys had it rough this last year. Regardless, Merry New Year! Here's to a great year of tinkering and good health!!!
We had a 9N ford that i thought had a bad pressure plate because it wouldn't disengage .It ended up being the pilot bushing dragging . Lubed it up and it worked like a champ .
I would love to see you give it the same treatment as M but leave the alternator my dad put one on his H& made it 12v except the starter it would start in any weather
Wow that was a cool cold start i knew it got a new injector pump put in and i kinda figured the injectors and combustion chambers may need so merciful loving.
