10-20 steering

Have a 28 10-20 that needs steering gears worn out, trid turnihg housing and rotating worm gear but still has to much play. If I get a set from a parts tractor they will problely be worn out to. Is this a common problem with this tractor?

Yes it is, many of them got used 'til they were used up. I have a rough one that must have died early, it's steering is real tight and it steers fairly easy, my good? 10-20 is a nightmare to steer.

Would you like to sell the steering gears in the parts tractor you have, thanks for the info.

You don't steer them; you herd them!

I have the 15-30 set-up stuck in my head right now [which didn't have the offset to tighten the gears like a 10-20] but if the worm is less than half the problem - you may be able to treat it like a 15-30:

remove the linkage arm, remove the shaft assembly and turn the shaft 180 before reinstalling the linkage arm. If that was already done once [and now with the 15-30 brain block in my head, I may be wayyyy off], it still likely leaves you with 2 more spots as the wear happens more in a 90 (actually probably more like 30!) degree area, but bolt reliefs were not provided in the perpendicular directions so if you grind in bolt reliefs and you may be good to go twice more.

This won't help you much, but I'll comment anyway. My father's 1929 10-20 steered like the proverbial Mack Truck (if you've ever seen the front tires on a Bulldog Mack, you can imagine how hard those monsters were to steer back in the days before power steering). On the other hand, an uncle had a '26 model that seemed to turn with a lot less effort. Could have been as simple as adjusting the worm, I suppose. Incidentally, I am talking about steel front wheels with skid rings. My father eventually converted the front wheels to 30 X 5 truck rims. He took old tires off our '32 Chevy truck to use on the tractor. It's been a LONG time since I fired up the old tractor (retired in 1951 when Dad bought an H), but I seem to remember that the wide rubber tires made the steering even stiff, AND I remember very well that without the skid rings, turning in soft ground with a double-disk behind didn't go very well. There are, of course, no steering brakes, and the heavy load pulling in the middle of the drawbar tends to keep the tractor going straight. I remember skidding a lot when trying to make a turn at full throttle in second, and I eventually learned (if monkeys can learn, so can we!) that cutting the power back reduced the load and made the tractor go where I pointed it.