It was one of those projects where if I would have stayed on it at the time, I co9uld have had it finished in a matter of a couple hours of my time. Then it sat, I forget why, and things rusted up a little more. At the time Dad couldn't find a rebuilt one anywhere, so he had to spring for the brand new vacume pump.
That added to the postponement because I always figured if they got a good 7-10 years out of a rebuild, a new one surely would last longer than that. So far it has, but then Dad mentioned it a couple months ago and asked what it'd take to finish it up "just in case". I got a start on it in early January. I brought it in to work and cleaned everything up a little better in the parts washer, and then decided that the bore was looking pretty bad so I found an engine shop with a big enough hone to hone it out. (they get lots of 2 pops too). The new bearings felt rough that I had pressed in the side plates, so I took them out and then blanchard ground the side plates to get rid of the grooves that were wore into them, and then installed new bearings.
A little time welding up the bearing journals and turning them back down, cleaning up the vanes and some reassembly, and now it really sucks!! Still gotta come up with the QD taper lock bushing for it because the old one is lost, but that shouldn't be too hard once I figure out the size it needs.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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