Thread: MF165 Project

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I wear gloves!

So do I.... I find I keep taking them off to do something .......... and remembering to put them back on .... as soon as the damn wheel bites me again Even easier would be to break the old plastic away and steer with the wheel frame.

It is only about $5.00 worth of rope though ... and the steering wheel is better than new (its nice and grippy unlike a plastic wheel).

A nice thread hijack here... I've been doing some learning today. I thought before I cut the grass I'd replace the broken PTO lever so it would stop dropping out the PTO when unloaded. Now if I was even the slightest bit intelligent .... I might have considered the PTO lever would be below the level of the gearbox oil .... so oil would pour out if I removed it ..... I reckon 10litres of that bloody stuff ended up on the ground.......... I guess it must have been time for an oil change Then I figured out you needed to remove the mudguard to get the PTO lever fully out and its quite a long tube down into the guts of the tractor. Now its out, the replacement lever can't find the housing inside the gearbox to lock into... and the PTO is stuck on. I guess I now pull the wheel off and try to get a torch into there.

Everything takes 5minutes ? .... no doubt.

Isn't it odd how we always find enough time to do it right the second time round.

Originally Posted by theelms66

Isn't it odd how we always find enough time to do it right the second time round.

With me ..... its about the 8th time .... sigh .... Once the wheel was off and I could shine a torch down into the bowels of the gearbox. It was simple. There is just a sliding collar there you needed to pickup.

There's been no updates on the 165 all week ..... We are getting bored here you know .... It she all back together and finished now ?

seeya,
Shane L.

No updates and not even close. My knee injury is slowing me down a lot so difficult to get to this as my next job is to split the tractor - again, I don't need to do this, but there is a small leak and it's bugging me now given everything else is 100%. It's not a difficult job in my mates workshop - he even has a jig to support the front end of the tractor he made to do others, so not really is the best time, I just need to not in pain long enough to spend a day or two on it. Will do the rear main on the engine, front seal on the transmission and likely throw a new clutch in it just because...

Also some news regarding the rims, but again, nothing finished there, so nothing really to report sorry.

This is all just confirmation that I've gone way past a quick freshen up - I knew this a month or so ago, but such is life...

Originally Posted by Homestar

No updates and not even close. My knee injury is slowing me down a lot so difficult to get to this as my next job is to split the tractor - again, I don't need to do this, but there is a small leak and it's bugging me now given everything else is 100%. It's not a difficult job in my mates workshop - he even has a jig to support the front end of the tractor he made to do others, so not really is the best time, I just need to not in pain long enough to spend a day or two on it. Will do the rear main on the engine, front seal on the transmission and likely throw a new clutch in it just because...

Also some news regarding the rims, but again, nothing finished there, so nothing really to report sorry.

This is all just confirmation that I've gone way past a quick freshen up - I knew this a month or so ago, but such is life...

Men need a project to keep them sane Nothing is worse than not having to health to do what you want. I'm interested to see how you split it. The canadian redneck was quite interesting to watch. A simple wobbly bottlejack to support the back half ... and a trolley jack for the front half ........................ outside in the dirt (though it did look like it was a concrete slab the tractor was on).

I usually struggle to line up and assemble motors/gearboxes that are on the floor. with the aid of engine cranes and jacks... even after using exactly clutch alignment tools....... and here's him swinging on tractor wheels and rolling the things back together like its nothing!

seeya,
Shane L.

Will take some pics and maybe some video - his jig is a frame that has 4 heavy duty steel casters on it so the whole frame rolls backwards and forwards, then on top of that is 2 bottle jacks - 1 at each side so you can adjust the angle both up and down and left to right. Might just need to make a plate or attachment point up for the top section the bottle jacks go into - haven’t looked at that yet, but he said once it’s on the tractor, it’s a piece of **** to manoeuvre the parts back together. Will see. 😉

Originally Posted by Homestar

Will take some pics and maybe some video - his jig is a frame that has 4 heavy duty steel casters on it so the whole frame rolls backwards and forwards, then on top of that is 2 bottle jacks - 1 at each side so you can adjust the angle both up and down and left to right. Might just need to make a plate or attachment point up for the top section the bottle jacks go into - haven’t looked at that yet, but he said once it’s on the tractor, it’s a piece of **** to manoeuvre the parts back together. Will see. 😉

pull a couple of the bolts out that hold it together for sizing and buy a 4 really long studs/bolts so you can keep it aligned/together while apart.... its the only way I can line up the lt230 transfer to get it back together. as well.

seeya,
Shane L.