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john(UK)
09-01-2003 12:13:33
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Re: Ferguson problems in reply to Olly Richman, 09-01-2003 02:28:29
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Well your in luck, you dont need to do it the hard and very expensive way now, you can buy a kit called "Sure Seals" that fits into the end of the trumpet housing and stop the oil getting anywhere near the bearing and worn out seal. I am told they cost about $10..but from your e-mail address I think you may be in UK, if you are please post again and I will send the names of some suppliers in UK...if you are in USA or Canada you can get the seals from this site, click on Ferguson parts at the top of the page. To repair the clutch, you need to remove the hood and the fuel tank,disconnect battery main lead, remove air hose from air filter to carb, Remove Starter motor,detach steering rods at the front axle end,lift them up and over to the rear when you have them detached, If they wont come out of the steering arm, shock them with a hammer,just hit the arm, you wont break them. Remove footrests and open out radius rods so you can use them like handles on a wheelbarrow, detach choke control at back of carb, detach throttle control at front of engine on the end of the long rod,detach wiring from the generator and move it towards the driving seat out of the way.If you have a downswept exhaust you will need to detach it at the manifold and let it drop down. Hope I havent forgotten anything, probably I have, just make sure that there is nothing that runs from the back half over the clutch housing/engine flange and you will be ok. When you get to this stage you need a jack under the clutch housing, just take the weight, have some blocks of wood ready to put under the engine, unfasten all the bolts around the clutch housing, starting with the nut at the top, right in the middle, as the housing starts to split make sure that the split is even, if its wider at the bottom than the top then jack it up and vice versa, when you get all the bolts out then you are ready to wheel the engine away, keep the radius rods down dont lift them higher than being level or you wont be able to control the wheels easily. its a two man job to do it this way, but we used to do it all the time, There is a kit using a track and two jacks but you wont have one of those, that makes it a lot easier. Once you got the engine away you can get at the clutch easily. To refit it, make sure that you get the clutch plate central in the clutch so the shaft will enter the plate and into the bearing in the flywheel, really you need a dummy shaft to do that, someone may have something that will do usually. Dont try to force the engine and transmission together or you may damage the centre of the clutch plate. While you have it apart make sure the release bearing on the clutch pedal and the pilot bearing in the centre of the flywheel are ok, replace them if they are at all rough or very easy to turn, if you dont you may be taking the engine out again quicker than you thought.Hope you can follow all that, just holla if you dont...best of luck with it....John
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