Marty, she's a 1965 - 1968 early series Selectamatic she has a AD4/47 motor not a AD4/49 like your other 990. Common with these old girls is the rear oil seal which isn't a seal but a oil flinger and over time they get blow bye and push oil onto the clutch and oil inpregnant it and slip. Pull the dipstick and check for blow bye. Have genuine db workshop books on this tractor if you need and I can scan and email them to you
Marty you're a conservationist of the best sort. I was taught fix it if possible, repurpose it if needed, if all else fails part out what is salvageable and recycle the rest. My folks got married at the height of the great depression. They were appalled at our modern throw-a-way society. Hope you and yours are safe and healthy.
Great 500 bucks worth. David brown tractors are very popular with classic farm machinery collectors over here in the UK because of the Aston Martin connection. Got a mate with three of them. Great watching you bring her back to life!
hi marty, im from norfolk uk. i can remember these old david browns, from my childhood in the 1960s/70s. they were everywhere, nearly every farm had one. your 990 was only sleeping, it just needed a nudge to jump back into life.
You must be from a different part of Norfolk to me! I remember nowt but Massey's and Fords. Coupla' poshos had John Deere's with fancy 6 cylinder engines...
My cousin,now in danniverke north island, always said he was a poor farmer, every else has mf or ford,I have David brown!! Done many an hour with a 990, good tractors in the day!!
Good find. We recently picked up a Case DB 990. With a dedicated fork fitted to it. I replaced the fuel filters and cleaned the sediment bowl and runs very nice. Your previous db video was extremely informative on changing the other filters and oil levels. Thanks. We laughed reading your blurb about your missus and enough tractors. My wife said, sounds like me and my cast iron cooking pots...
I believe all these machines that Marty has brought home come to life when he's not around. The new machine is greeted with welcome to heaven, Marty will take care of you and you'll get to go to work like we're supposed to be, you know like Toy Story, but with tractors, graders, excavators, the list goes on....nice work mate!
@@WhiskeyGulf71 Yeah, but even Christine got a little boost, Arnie did a lot of work on her, picking stuff out of old man Darnell`s shit pile. After all, Darnell wasn`t doing anything with it ( the shit pile of stuff ).
Brother great catch on the david brown, I must say, I Love your channel and could watch you work your magic all day long, it is a pleasure to see you in action and the joy of watching old machines come back to life, thank you for sharing your stories and life.
Ah, this brings back memories from my childhood at my uncle's farm in the late 70s. He only bought David Browns. If my memory serves me well (it might not 😊) I think he had two 880 selectamatics, and a 990 with cab and power steering. A few years later he entered the 4WD world with a 1490. Thanks for putting up these videos, Marty T. It is always a pleasure to watch them.
Marty Daam, another DB 999 for $500 with a loader too. Gawd , and it started up, purred like a kitten. Those DBs were well made, you are one lucky guy:)
I have an old Agria 9900E and had issues where it kept running out of fuel, turns out the in tank filter had fallen to bits and chunks of rust were blocking the fuel lines. Runs like a beast now.
You got lucky on this one too Marty. So strange that someone would just let a machine sit there and rot. Most owners are just too lazy to keep there equipment in good order as well.
With that was said in the story and the condition of the fuel filters, I wonder if they forgot to bleed the system properly and it caused issues. A costly mistake, or a worthwhile venture. Next time I'll get a David brown project instead of a yanmar at this rate 🤣
Very true. Rule of thumb in my area is if its a small tractor say a kubota L2000 or Yanmar YM2420 (both of which I owned (kubota still around) filter changes are a must. I could never get the yanmar running paid 800 for it. Sold it after investing a bit for 1500 to a friend who works on diesels and wanted a small tractor for his land. It would not start when compression was engaged and disengaging would just cause it to turn almost 1K rpm. Thermostart worked but didn't help, valves were proper, no water in oil. Turns out after he checked heads, pistons, and other things the front seal on the injection pump was leaking. Didn't expect it, but at the time I wasn't sure on keeping it as it didn't move (hydro/shuttle shift trans) so you couldn't even attempt to roll start, and the fact that the exhaust pointed up with no sign of a cover for years (mud wasp nest blew out of it when it was trying to start) i was expecting water to have ate into the liners.
@4:45 Marty says, "I'm running outta room", 😂 Marty has enough heavy equipment to put in an Interstate across both islands 😄😄👍👍Another great video my friend!!!
Hey Marty I love seeing this content from near where i grew up. I grew up in the area driving tractors, diggers and trucks alike my dad even had one of these old David browns they are absolute workhorses love seeing this content from the area
Another good find Marty , nice easy fix little water in the fuel , quick clean up and off it goes . . Top fella . Keep all the old finds coming . You be able to start an old classics plant sales soon . . Great to see all the old stuff finding its way into good hands . 👌👍👍. .
My favourite Kiwi! Always a pleasure to watch Marty...don 't worry about the cook , buy her some flowers with the money you've saved..LOL. Cheers Gregg.
You are the kiwis version of those dudes who build pools and what not in the jungle. As in I have no idea what you're up to but can't stop watching Haha. You're awwwwn bro, chur
Sweet find, these old tractors are amazing, sit for years, a little TLC and voila, it's going again. Love the finds and start ups. Thanks for the videos.
@@billsargent3407 There's a lot of equipment like this sitting around on farms in my state (Illinois.) And it can be purchased for low prices. However, most of it is too far gone to be repaired. Farmers around here get every last penny out of their machines. They keep them going with bailing wire, duct tape, etc., until they finally self-destruct :P
Ok so imagen how the directions where to the guy's house, take the road north then cross a river then diver thru the woods to a field and you there, it's easy to find you should have NP finding it
12:23 Seems strange that a British tractor living in New Zealand would have French instructions on how to stop the engine. There must be an interesting story behind that.
by the way.. a TIP for starters on equipment that have sat a long time.. short the solenoid top to bottom post.. this spins the armature and does the commutator a nice cleaning without load.. don't let if freewheel spin under power for long.. just touch and let it spindown.. touch and let it spin down.. no use exploding the armature with excessive speed. and the spin down without electrons jumping the brushes is really a good way to clean the surfaces..
Greetings from Wisconsin, Marty! Do your ever get sellers who watch you lay hands on their tired iron, bringing it back to life then complain that you took advantage of them???
Me to it just shits me that the local shire council is so rediculously hard to get on with when it comes to building sheds so we can preserve some of our wonderful old machines
Why woman dont like tractors?, I dont know. Youll know your way round David Brown 990's.. Great bargain, would love a front end loader tractor. The damaged block maybe frost damage. This machine starts better than the other one.
In a word, BRILLIANT! Well done making the old girl talk. Another win for the Kiwi. Just a suggestion, put some wood on the angle iron before you press that ram into submission. Great job, thanks for sharing.
David Brown tractors are like cockroaches... ya can never truly kill them. My family had one most of my life. I'd definitely get one myself if I had an acreage or a small farm of my own. We had an 880 though. I really like the 880 as a reliable strong for its size tractor
Elderly woman here, watching from USA. No idea how this channel came to my feed, given that I know absolutely nothing about motors, machinery, or anything electric, but I find channel strangely fascinating. I have no idea what you are doing, so really appreciate your thinking out loud as you analyze the problem and explain what you are doing. I have added gearbox, hydraulic, and air filter to my vocabulary. LOL I would really like to know what you are going to do with all these resurrected machines. Do you sell any of them? Looks like you keep them lined up under protected coverings. How many will you collect? Do you make your living with your mechanic skills? BTW, loved the hats your mom knitted from Rambro's hair!
The moment the tractor came to life, RU-vid subtitles said " [Music] " I didn't realise it had a sense of humour. Was it music to everyone else's ears too?
Left hand jitters sounds like a partially stuck brake, tap the adjustment stud back and it should free off but it will stick again when you press the brake next time, it might free out in with use (the cross shaft sticks in the housing and no lube point,common fault). Well done and all the best with it. Oh and best to have your lift handle in rear sprung position when you are turning the 3way dial lever at the back from side to side. 🇮🇪
My guess she hasn’t a big pile of work done as not much ware. You are fortunate the rubber gators on the gearshift are good and kept water out of the gearbox and consequently the hydraulics. She certainly sounds a good runner. Happy days
My uncle John has one same tractor but different loader setup of David Brown type also had excellent luck with his but gas version 1972 year to! Plus has a 1964 660 David Brown Desiel motor type but no loader to tractor had excellent luck with too!
The David brown 990 used to be a great pulling tractor in the UK the first if the 990s were really good too they were red and then they made the white one that's the newer one
It’s amazing how there are some people out there with stuff like this, they might tinker with the problem then lose interest and just let it sit then eventually get rid of when all it was to run was a simple cleaning and checking filters. I’ve gotten a couple of lawn tractors and mowers that people say they don’t run....cleaned the carb, fresh fuel and runs like new. Love these videos!
The oh shit slide off the trailer was legit!!! Great video hurry up and make the next video with you fixing all the little problems with it. Maybe later you can make a video of how to get the wife on board with bringing greasy gold home to tinker with. For all of poor guys with wife’s that demand all of our attention
