Anyone know Massey Fergusons?

**wrinklearthur** · 16th December 2012, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by mick88

Chuck a tarp over it if you are leaving it out in the rain.
Water runs down the gearstick/s and if the rubber boot/s is/are knackered it gets into the gearbox and hence you know the rest!
And a soup can over the exhaust is a must too! Cheers, Mick.

Mick is right about this and so many Fergie tractors that have been used as a anchor for travelling irrigators, end up with their gearboxes full of water.

Besides the rubber boots around the gear stick, the other way water can get into the gearbox is past the top link mechanism through large spring, located behind the seat back.
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**JayBoRover** · 14th January 2013, 10:49 PM

Thanks for the tips about the rain guys

. I think I got funny looks when I raced outside and quickly parked the tractor in the carport where the S2a used to be parked when it started spitting with light rain yesterday

. Yep (I have to say it quietly here) I have ejected DeeDee from it's parking spot under cover and started parking "MuFin" (short for "MuFin-do-in") there.

I also bought a bead blaster cabinet recently and pulled the front grille off and cleaned it up a bit. Main purpose was to replace the headlight shrouds, as one was broken badly, but also I like pulling things apart, tidying them up and putting them back together

. I bought the correct MF "Silver Mist" paint in an aerosol just to do the stripes on the mesh grille. Later on I'll do the rest of the grille with the silver too, but that will have to wait until I've got a Series 1 86" out of the way.

So, here's the bead-blasted resprayed grille (yes, I'll do the horizontal brace in the top section soon

):

...and to prove the headlights work (tested on both high and low beams):

I also had a play with the "135" side plaque. It is pretty corroded but I couldn't see any real issues with it so I had a play with some siple car paint cutting compound.
Before:

After (Sorry about the loss of focus):

Anyway, that'll be it for a while on MuFin while I build some Dakar funds by getting the '55 S1 out the door running.

Cheers
John B

**Shortie** · 15th January 2013, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by JayBoRover

Thanks for the tips about the rain guys

. I think I got funny looks when I raced outside and quickly parked the tractor in the carport where the S2a used to be parked when it started spitting with light rain yesterday

. Yep (I have to say it quietly here) I have ejected DeeDee from it's parking spot under cover and started parking "MuFin" (short for "MuFin-do-in") there.

Cheers
John B

WHAT ????

**JayBoRover** · 15th January 2013, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by Shortie

WHAT ????

I just knew, absolutely knew, that you would suddenly pop up in here!

The thing is, I've been driving DeeDee every day (earning the "Daily Driver" tag that morphed into "DeeDee") for the 54km commute each way to/from work, so DeeDee is outside most of the time anyway. Look at it as an indication of how confident I am in DeeDee's ability to cope with getting wet

. (In reality I know the seat, floor and pedals get as wet in DeeDee as they do on MuFin when it rains, but at least DeeDee's gearbox doesn't fill up with rain water - because the floor lets all the water out quicker than it can puddle?

).
Maybe I don't deserve DeeDee. I'm a bad series owner

.
Does it help or make it worse that the new D90 also gets parked outside? (Mainly because it's far too tall for any of my sheds or car ports

).

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