{"id":12,"date":"2010-03-18T10:40:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jarootfarms.com\/journal\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-03-18T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:40:16","slug":"repairing-the-super-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jarootfarms.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Repairing the Super A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally had the finalstraw last fall when I had to use a ratchet strap to hold the left cultivator gang in the tube.\u00a0 This is quite dangerous in that if it falls out I&#8217;ll be replacing a 12.4-28 Firestone and that isn&#8217;t something my bank account wants to do.\u00a0 The culprit was that the inner clamp bolt hold had stripped and a previous owner had destroyed the outer with a torch and a tap (unbeknown to me).\u00a0 Therefore earlier this week I decided it was time to fix this nagging issue.\u00a0 At the same time I needed to repair a leaking seal on the steering box that continually leaks and makes a mess.\u00a0 This would also allow me to evaluate the vertical play in the sector gear shaft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jarootfarms.talkhillsdale.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/0317102029c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17\" title=\"0317102029c\" src=\"http:\/\/jarootfarms.talkhillsdale.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/0317102029c-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jarootfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/0317102029c-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jarootfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/0317102029c.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After removing the front end and disassembling the unit I was forced to bring the lower casting with me yesterday as I could not cut whatever was hiding in the outer hole with a high speed steel drill bit.\u00a0 Having a full machine shop at your disposal is often invaluable.\u00a0 A few minutes on the boring mill with a carbide endmill revealed beneath the molten metal, the remnants of a tap which had at some point been broken off in the hole.\u00a0 After plunging through that it was a matter of drilling and tapping to the next appropriate size.\u00a0 In this case 3\/4 &#8211; 16 NF&#8230; I will no longer be babysitting that left cultivator gang.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jarootfarms.talkhillsdale.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/0317101858a2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15\" title=\"0317101858a\" src=\"http:\/\/jarootfarms.talkhillsdale.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/0317101858a2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jarootfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/0317101858a2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jarootfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/0317101858a2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With regard to the steering I discovered that the bearing is the culprit.\u00a0 It is a simple ball bearing that after 56 years and plenty of water infiltration had deteriorated and results in a lot of movement between inner and outer race.\u00a0 The new one will be here Saturday morning courtesy of my friends at the local IH dealership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jarootfarms.talkhillsdale.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/0317102029a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16\" title=\"0317102029a\" src=\"http:\/\/jarootfarms.talkhillsdale.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/0317102029a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jarootfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/0317102029a-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jarootfarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/0317102029a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With any luck we&#8217;ll be hilling for taters next weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally had the finalstraw last fall when I had to use a ratchet strap to hold the left cultivator gang in the tube.\u00a0 This is quite dangerous in that if it falls out I&#8217;ll be replacing a 12.4-28 Firestone and that isn&#8217;t something my bank account wants to do.\u00a0 The culprit was that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farmlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jarootfarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jarootfarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jarootfarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jarootfarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jarootfarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jarootfarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.jarootfarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jarootfarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jarootfarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jarootfarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}