Your biggest restoration Oops!

Posted by old fashioned farmer on December 11, 2004 at 20:15:41 from (4.131.51.174):

Howdy,

Recent events with my current JD M restoration have led me to a question for all of my fellow restoration fanatics here. What is the biggest oops you've had while doing a restoration? I've had 'em on my farmall A when I coined out new gaskets by tightening them too much and finding the old leak comin from a new gasket. The recent ones were the ones that got me thinkin though. I mentioned a leak on the M's hydraulic suction line a few days ago. Well, a quick study of the shop manual's removal procedure told me that my first clue to something being wrong with that line should have came when I found I couldn't remove it from the housing back when I first took the tractor apart. Oops. I found out instead when I already had the entire rear assembly together and poured oil in it for the first time. Oh yes, the valve housing now sits on the workbench with all the parts in between gingerly placed around the shop. Turns out someone had previously tried to remove that line and bent it all up inside and tore up the packing that seals it. So, another trip to JD is in order (providing they have that line). The second oops came with the new (foreign junk) ammeter I got from my parts place (not JD). If you've worked on an M you know the gauges are impossible to get to unless the entire fuel tank assembly is removed. Well, lo and behold the new ammeter (which I got in July and never tested because I assumed a new one would work)didn't work. What's more it has one of those neat little lights in it to light up the gauge...well, I should say it didn't have one of those little lights when it was supposed to. Missing bulb. That required the removal process mentioned before. So now, after telling my friend the good news that his tractor is running, I have to hope he doesn't plan a visit any time soon ha ha. Eager to hear your stories. Let's see 'em. God bless.

--old fashioned farmer

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