What Is Going On Here?

First picture is the way it is supposed to fit. Note the position of the fan in relation to the PS drive pulley. It is ahead of it.

Next two pictures are my tractor. Why is that darned fan so far back?

Thanks,

Allan

Char-Lynn used a set of spacers and longer bolts to move the fan a little foward on this setup.

I have a set of the spacers and bolts in the shop.

If ya need or want, I can take some pics of them and get ya some measurments of everything there is to do the job.

I gotta go back in early, but will gladly get all the info ya might need when I get back home tomorrow around 5:30 or so.

my email is open.

Bruce

Listen, that tractor is at least 1,000 times more than I expected. Fact is, I'd take anything else you wanted to move. :>)

Don't you even think about it. I'm sure not. :>)

Those Farmhands busted 'em. A fact of life back then. Didn't start happening until around '53 or '54; something like that. That's when we learned how to gusset the darned things to keep it from happening.

But, those old Farmalls were dropping like flies all over the place and people just accepted it for what it was worth. An occurance.

I'll hear no more about it. You sold an absolute EXCELLENT tractor! And, I still think you are one of the most honest guys I've ever ran into. :>)

Allan

Is the spacer larger than this one that is already on the tractor? Could it be that the blades are just bent back some?

Allan

Everyone in 5 counties is telling me to use spacers to get that fan moved out. Mine is setting at 2 7/8" from the radiator. Just this side of 3 full inches from the core.

Is it easier to just yank that silly radiator clear out of the way?

Sorry for the stupid questions, never done this one before.

Allan

Think that could be the difference? Fan drive/waterpump?

Allan

• Charlynn powersteering setup

I bought the pump probably three years ago out of a salvage yard, so didn't see how it was installed on the parent tractor.

Also, I'm kinda sure that this tractor broke in two at one time or another, because the frame rails have been welded back together, the radiator is new and the complete engine has been replaced.

The serial number of the engine is: RKM 281064 and it really doesn't look "M-ish". What did that engine originally fit?

'Spose I ought to just get a priority valve and skip this headache?

Allan

The second picture showes the top pully to be about 3/4" forward of the bottom pully.....if you look close you can see the space between the belt and the pully grove.....that may help...

Don southwest Ohio

Dustin is a young troop and the tractor had belonged to his Grandpa. Plus, it has been parked away in a shed for over 20 years.

Found out that the engine is out of a Stationary Power setup. No big deal really.

I've been around Farmhands all my life and understand that they do "break 'em in half".

The waterpump/fan drive is obviously different.

Guess I'll just have to go with a priority valve setup IF the darned live pump will bolt up now.

If not, we're manual steering all the way I guess. :>)

Allan