I had this one apart for a seal about 3 years ago, might have it apart once before but cant recall. The biggest issue is dripping oil lines. I don't care for all the fussy hydraulic stuff. It ranks right up there with driveability on cars, I don't know much to start with and don't do it all the time.
A tractor split for a clutch is a straight forward deal, very predictable about like a car or pickup truck. I had this apart so I took it apart some more. Its all super old and every seal and gasket is hard, I got to take an assembly apart yet to find the problem I was looking for.
I had it all cleaned up, its beemn sitting here all winter in some kind of disrepair and I was going to paint it but may delay that and want it all housebroke.
People think I like doing this stuff and its really not the case. I got to do it and want to make it as easy as I can, one can make that as hard as the other but it can also have long term gains.
I am more of a stock car guy and firefighter. I don't care for tedious rebuilding and got absolutely no interest in sitting at a lathe. Same for welding. I do what I have to do to get what I want or what is in the way.
A little like the KOO from Canada, got to fix it or you don't go. We had a pin seize on a dozer, busted a shackle off. The bad news was it was broke and would take 2 or 3 hrs, basically kill half a day to fix, the good news was 3 hrs later it was repaired without parts and 15 minutes of welding.
Rebuilding cars is too tedious. At the rated he quoted I would hire that American restoration guy. I cant farm it out, my Dad did a lot of that with an old timer back in the day, did all the car and truck work as some insane reasonable price and did a good job.
Today the cost would be astronomical, we know where we are at with it, we can drive a lot of stuff anymore till its just broke.
Not only can we care for things but older common cars and some other stuff we can simply drive till its junk. My wifes junker here, not rebuilding but fix the stuff that keeps rolling and it has hit a level here I am looking at replacement in the event of a major component failure. I did some front end work, got 2 days labor and 500 in parts in 2 years of brutal service.
I included a rotor shot for giggles, the backside is about 1/2 good. Ice, rust had messed with parking brake and was making noise, sounded like more of a problem than it was but the thing still has 50% pad on the same ruined rotors I stuck pads on a year ago and I grease the pins, scuff the slides, knock the rust off and stick it back on.
Made sure the fronts were free and rotated the tires.
