Touch Control Rebuild, 100

Well got the clunk'kin wheel fixed and now got brakes so on to next project. Do I fix the leak'in Touch Control on my 100 or ring the 140. Well I recon push come to shove I could make do wif only one tractor fer cultivating see'n as I am now start'n to eat sum of the home grown stuff out of the garden and most of the vegetables have got to big 2 cultivate and sort wait'n for the late garden to come along then move on to turnip greens and collard time and and and my school boy helper Mutt shore needs sum sperence werk'n on a tractor I spec i will werk on the leak'n Touch Control first. Soooo it leaks out the bottom some were and no were were i kin see a leak. I did pick up the seal/gasket kit # 354007R96 $104 or sum'n like that. i recon we kin figger out how to R&R the Touch Control. I spec the top cover and the rear cover needs to come off so the rams kin come out or are their enny short cuts, it werks good only leaks out the front some were a slow leak but I figger I best take care of it fer I are someone else runs the pump dry. If I git the leak stoped I have already rewerked the rest of the 100 cept fix'n the leak around the right pan on the bull gear I mite throw sum of that shinny read paint on the rest of it, front wuz done a few years back. went threw the engine, front axle, trans, cleaned and sealed the gas tank. Sum of y'all boys know I am ford man but would not take a share in a gold mine fer my 100. I am a mechanic by trade so not skeered.

george....what would you want with a Super A if you have that SC? I love my SA and have finally got it where I want it to be...which didn't take much. My only complaint is that they were geared too high...if I could have a true creeper gear, I'd be tickled to death. You know how it is that first plowing....got to idle them down to where you can about hear each time she hits...so you don't cover up the young plants. Then hit a hard piece of ground and dang near stall the engine. I have a hard believing the IH engineers were that daft in the head..but evidently they were. Third gear is useless.....so they could have had bulldog, 1st, 2nd, and road gear.

Man needs an umbrella out in this sun if he's going to plow anything out. My corn and beans are laid by and if the rain doesn't come, there won't be any late corn.

This'n pulls good but also would like a lower gear. Once i got use to the speed its no problem. To answer the power question its strong. I have a late 140 head and cam along with the overbore and fire crater pistons. It'ell git'er done and pull good at low speeds neer idle while cultivating. My 100 nor 140 have to werk hard I leave the hard werk for the Fords the Fords are cheaper to fix.
I have good old pond water and a good irrigation system. Its extremely dry here also.

what do your irrigator guns/sprayers look like? what kind of pump are you feeding them with and at what pressure?

I have a big cistern I no longer use and finally took my pto sprayer pump and rigged it to a 1.5 hp electric motor. That pump will stall that electric motor if you run the pressure very high. I used a 6" or 8" pulley on the pump and 2" on the motor. The bypass valve was returning at least half of what the pump was delivering and making 80 psi at the hose nozzle. I got sick and tired of moving it around. Now, if I had a manifold setup and several sprinklers/guns..... I could run that pump wide open....you'd be amazed at what a 6 or 8 roller hypro pump will put out...but it needs higher rpms than a 540 shaft will deliver.

a tobacco plant must be the toughest green thing alive...they take so much and bounce right back. But, I've murdered a lot of corn by getting carried away and going too fast or not paying attention. I's like to put a 3 point on my SA. The lift isn't very stout, but sure would make it handier. I often dreamed of owning one those diesel 274's or JD 900 HC's some farmers bought in the 80's. I've heard bad about the 274's engine...but they had all the bells and whistles. That JD 900HC had to be a dandy.

Just what kind of implements for a SA do you have? I'd be glad to have a 3 point and use a set of 3 pt cultivators to cover my tire tracks and then be able to use the boom pole for light work and the single 16" plow...instead of having to mount the drawbar for the SA plow. My old IHC planter has been converted to 3 point years ago and would work so well with the SA....it's just the ease of changing of tools with the 3 point that makes me want one.

Where are you at? I'm about 25 miles west of Ashland in Greenup Co. One of these days I might ought to drive down and meet up with you and look at your toys:).

Last spring, I had 2 SA's and a Cub. I sold the '55 SA with a belly mower and Cub with cultivators and kept this '53 SA with cultivators and side dresser. The cultivators had a lot of wear and slop in them, so I ran a few beads of weld on the mounting shafts to tighten them up...fixed that easy enough. The sweeps were worn plum off, so I replaced all of them on the front gang...somebody had put new spring tines on the rear already. I rebuilt the hydraulic reservoir and the carb, filled the steering box with grease as per Hugh MacKay's recommendation and shot a little paint to it and called it done. I bought new points, plugs and condenser and never have installed them....don't need'em!

I've got a 60+ horse 4wd JD 5320 for everything else I manage to do around here, just about wore it out...managed to put 140 hours on it in 2 years..hehe!

I would have thought those Yanmar built JD 900's would have been good machines. I looked hard at a new one back in the 80's.

I'd enjoy coming to see you sometime when it's convenient for you. I bought my two Ford pickups (my first and last in '88) there at Mt. Sterling. I wouldn't trade nickels with those crooks if I were you.

I've got a friend who just moved from Lexington down to Perryville and I need to go see his farm as well.

Montgomery County has some fine real estate, one of my favorite parts of the state. email me sometime. Jumptrap58@wmconnect.com

Here's a parts breakdown on a Pesco hydraulic pump
that may help you. Hal

Who needs a Ho (we kin say the Ho werd kint we) just git 100