Re: B275 Steering Q's

Posted by Chris1roll on May 11, 2005 at 09:22:24 from (172.216.53.246):

In Reply to: Re: B275 Steering Q's posted by Derek Broerse on April 24, 2005 at 09:43:37:

We have just had the whole stupidly heavy steering situation on our 275. It was heavy to start with but when we fitted the loader to it you couldn"t turn the wheel even when moving. Also, the wheel could be turned by about 20degrees either way before it would have any effect on the wheels at all.

The 275 steering box is rather primitve, inside is a "finger" that follows the worm drive on the column, and this in turn moves the arm that comes out of the box.
Once the finger and/or worm is worn, thats it, there is no adjustment of clearance or anything.

Now, we also have a 276 (and a 414 to be rebuilt too but thats another story) in bits that we bought for spares.

The 276 steering box is far far superior. The ratio is different, so the steering is much lighter, and on the outside of the box is a screw that is used to take up and slack caused by wear in the worm or finger.
Now, the steering column comes out from the box at a different angle, so the 275 bodywork will not fit. In order to fit this column we had to change the diesel tank, the battery tray, and all the bodywork. We also modified the dashboard to fit the oil pressire guage and ammeter from the 275 in place of the warning lights that didn"t work anyway.
If you want your tractor to be original, or show condition obviously this is not an option, but for us, this is going to be a working tractor, for muking out etc, so functionality is more important.
Incidentally its not moving anywhere at the moment having had 2 injection pumps "die" in as many days...bizarre

Anyway, hopefully this may be of some use to you?

Chris

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