H Seat Post Leans to the left

Chad504 · Dec 30, 2008

I've searched the forums, and I cant find anything. Where should I start looking? At first I thought it was just wobbled out at the top, where the seat pivots, but after looking at it from the rear, the post is bent. It's the basic pan with the sprint on top of the bolt on top of the bracket on the tranny cover.

tn terry t · Dec 30, 2008

could it be that the bushing that the pipe bolts to is worn out you can still get them new. if the pipe is bent i dont see why you couldn't bend it back with a little heat

terry t

http://www.external_link/parts/Farm-Tractor-Parts-List/FARMALL/H/H/Seat/Sub-Component/01.htm

rustyfarmall · Dec 30, 2008

If the post is bent, you can either try to straighten it or better yet, just find another seat.

Chad504 · Dec 30, 2008

the more I look at it, I thini the whole pipe is twisted in the bracket at the base. I wonder if the hole in the pipe is wobbled out in the big bolt that attaches it to the mounting plate. I'm sure I can remove and weld a good washer inside to square it up.

boomer22 · Dec 30, 2008

Mine leaned and flopped around like a fish out of water till i bought new rubber bushings for it, now it's like a new seat.

D Slater · Dec 30, 2008

Most times on that type seat the hole that piviot pin goes through in pipe is worn or broken. Fixed several by making a new pin and some welding. If you unbolt bracket from transmission cover and turn seat upside down you can see problem. Or move seat side to side bolted on tractor and you can see pipe roll in bracket some. If hole through pipe or bracket is very bad you can remove old material and weld a steel bushing into pipe with correct ID for pin. If holes are worn in holding bracket use bushing for oversize pin. If nothing is worn to bad just a oversize piviot pin with holes enlarged to match will work. Be sure to get hole in pipe centered or seat will lean. Also if no worries about removing again the piviot pin can be welded at ends on bracket and ground down smooth.

Angle Iron · Dec 30, 2008

Just maybe it was done that way for pulling a plow. Recall the back ach from setting on the seat with the right wheel in the furrow all day day after day. Used to kill me. Grew up on a 2 quarter split farm using two H Farmalls. I am sure we plowed at least half every year for rowcrop and disked the rest for small grain. Cutting an angle across the rows to level last years corn fields for oats was a rock and roll back killer as well. Just a thought
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TMonton · Dec 30, 2008

Exactly Angle Iron... we had two H"s and including the neighbors farm, they all leaned some.

I think it was our fault too because we were leaning into the seat looking back most the time anyway. After awhile it forms like a butt crease ?

It seemed like we were plowing endlessly for weeks at a time and that"s not to mention summer follow later in the season.

Then move to mowing, raking and baling (square bale) hay we rarely sat forward on the seat.

Cultivating may have been the exception.

I understand the back aches too. What always wierded me out most was. Running a tractor plowing or disking a few hours about 3/4 throttle and come in. Jump off the seat and about crumple onto the ground. It was like having to learn how to walk all over again. All the vibration would make my legs like mush after while.

john d · Dec 30, 2008

There are at least three varieties of seats that came on the H model. My '43 H has the "flip" seat with the toolbox under it and a big vertical spring at the bottom of the seat post. It leans to the right.

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