Re: Farmall Super A Steering Repair

Posted by Hugh MacKay on May 16, 2003 at 10:50:08 from (216.208.58.98):

In Reply to: Farmall Super A Steering Repair posted by Mike@NY on May 16, 2003 at 06:24:19:

Mike: In all my 45 years using these tractors I have never had a steering wheel shaft out. Jack your tractor under the clutch housing remove your front axle at the pivot. It is just as easy to remove the left telescoping tube as it is to take that U bolt out of front casting. Once you have the axle out of way unbolt the base of steering box and take it down. The steering arm will have to come off first. Up inside you will see the shaft with a half cog on it that is where the key is sheared off. Look your cog and worm over quite well. If they don't apear to be worn, when I say worn I mean actual teeth on worm and cog. Put your new key in and put it back together. Check to make sure cog doesn't have even the slightest movment on shaft as to being held by woodruf key. That key being even the slightest bit loose can give you more free travel on the steering wheel than any other item in there. I had one of these with keyway damaged from running with loose key which is more than likely why yours broke. We ground a larger key to fit taper in keyway in shaft. We then looked at half cog and determined keyway was worn on that. We welded a bead of weld up each side of key, welding it to shaft. We then ground this key off, so the cog was going to be an awfully tight fit. We then pressed cog on with a hydraulic press. You can say what a chance, well those parts were all toast anyway. That was 14 years ago and I would guess I probably have just about the least free travel on steering wheel of any Super A that I have seen. That is one item I always check at a show, free travel in offset Farmall steering wheels.

Don't over look other items wrong, and if they need fixing do it. If the steering shaft is tight on end and side play don't touch it. If half cog and worm have wear on teeth you will may need to replace them before you take the cog out check to see how much free travel it has in teeth.

Don't even worry about seals those leaked from the time these tractors were 2 years old. When you have it all back together take the drain and the fill plug out. Put a grease zerk in the fill to level hole. Pump it with grease until comes out either the fill or drain hole, put that plug in and pump more grease until it come out other hole, put that plug in. Every time you grease the tractor put 6 pumps of grease in steering box. It will steer great and you will have a SA that isn't all wet with oil from steering box. Oh there will be those who say I fixed mine the right way. Yes they stopped from leaking for two years every five years. If you have any questions ask.

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• Re: Re: Farmall Super A Steering Repair scotty 12:16:32 05/16/03 (2)
  • Re: Re: Re: Farmall Super A Steering Repair Hugh MacKay 15:28:02 05/16/03 (1)
    • Re: Re: Re: Re: Farmall Super A Steering Repair Doug in NJ 18:07:00 05/16/03 (0)

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