What's your least favorite repair/restore

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Tom Fleming

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• Aug 18, 2012

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Well, just got done re-coring the Regular radiator. turned out fine, as I had an extra used core in the parts inventory. Getting ready to put it back on, but dang, I hate doing F-series rads.

What's your least favorite repair?

 

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Owen Aaland

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• Aug 18, 2012

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Repairing a broken manure spreader apron chain on a loader spreader when it 15 below zero.

 

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DeltaRed

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• Aug 18, 2012

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Painting!Thats why none of my 'restores'ever get
painted.

 

rustred

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• Aug 18, 2012

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i am going to say the preparation for painting, as it seems like it goes on forever and i just run out of patience. thats why i keep my tractors rusty original red.

 

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John G. Hasler

Member

• Aug 18, 2012

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> Repairing a broken manure spreader apron chain...

You had to go and remind me of that. Add that the reason it broke is because I let the manure freeze down, so I have thaw it by tarping the spreader with three milkhouse heaters under it and then shovel the contents out before even starting the repair...

Haven"t done that for at least 15 years. Fortunately.

 

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Nebraska Kirk

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• Aug 18, 2012

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(quoted from post at 14:50:16 08/18/12) Well, just got done re-coring the Regular radiator. turned out fine, as I had an extra used core in the parts inventory. Getting ready to put it back on, but dang, I hate doing F-series rads.

What's your least favorite repair?

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I agree, I had the radiator on my Regular apart 3 or 4 times before I got the gaskets to quit leaking :x :x

 

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Teakettle

Member

• Aug 18, 2012

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Reassembling the PTO clutch mechanism on a Cub. The factory
clearly recruited people with very small hands to assemble that.
(I can get my hand in the hole but then my fingers are
immobilized).

Reinstalling the ~200 lb front weight "slab bumper" on a
454/464 without any help is fun, too, as it adds the possibility of
serious injury to the mix.

But I think for sheer terror there's not much that can compare
with changing loaded tires and having to chase one when it
decides to go rolling down the road in the direction of various
damageable expensive things.

 

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oldtanker

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• Aug 18, 2012

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Least fav....anything that broke that I could have prevented.......nest would be any I have to pay for.

Rick

 

Janicholson

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• Aug 18, 2012

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Almost any """repair""" attempted by a disfunctional person with backordered Intellegence. Bad very bad, especially if they completed the repair. Jim

 

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Nebraska Cowman

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• Aug 18, 2012

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Probably tire repair is my least favorite. But I do
like to fix stuff. What I really hate is cows out
and sick calves.

 

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Fritz Maurer

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• Aug 18, 2012

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A prolapsed uterus.

 

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Harold Evans

Member

• Aug 18, 2012

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Cutting out the bottom of a tank with a torch to find a thick
layer of hardened goo that some dimwit poured in to fix
some leaks the lazy way (while still connected to the tractor).
The metal continues to 'catch on fire' until all that stuff is
out and gone. Frustrating, indeed.

 

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Nebraska Cowman

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• Aug 19, 2012

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Yeah, but it does give you a good feeling when the insides are back inside!

 

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NoNewParts

Member

• Aug 19, 2012

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paint prep
seems every other one has house paint on the tin
rolls up like glue under a grinder/sander

close second, breaking down filled rear tires that haven't
been touched in decades

 

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CNKS

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• Aug 19, 2012

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My repairs are restorations, or maybe I should call it refurbishing. Meaning I do most anything. Some procedures are not particularly enjoyable, but hate is too strong a word. What I do is just part of the game. Sometimes things go well sometimes they don't. I did give up mounting tires, the tire dealer is done before I get started good, so that would be the worst thing if I still did it.

 

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TomH in PA

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• Aug 19, 2012

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Anything with small parts that launch themselves when you remove something that looks innocent.

 

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RedRoundhead

Member

• Aug 19, 2012

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I just got finished doing what I can now consider the worst repair/restore job that I can remember; changing all the bearings on a Fox 3 row narrow corn head. No room to maneuver for getting at the island drive sprockets and bearings. Corn husks/weeds wrapped around every darn bearing/shaft, to a diameter of about 4" on a 1 1/4" shaft, old grease packed/coating everything, everywhere, to a minimum depth of .125, lovely mushroomed ends of shafts, that the bearing are supposed to slide off of, so which needed to be filed back down to size, to remove the bearing, which 1 bearing needs to come off before you can slide the shaft and the other bearing out of the cornhead, and of course, some strategically bent sheet metal, that had to be removed/repaired to get at the bearings.

I bought this thing last year, and I have been tinkering with it since then; I finally got the thing on the chopper this weekend. Too bad these heads are hard to find; I would have rather held out for one in better shape.I repair things everyday, and I usually enjoy it. I totally hate this thing; it had better work, or it may just get a stick of dynamite shoved into it.

 

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DanR

Member

• Aug 20, 2012

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John Deere B

 

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ihman73

Member

• Aug 22, 2012

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Extricating not entirely dead coons from silo unloader blowers in the dark after milking in july, and trying to keep the old pride of the farm waterers thawed out and heaters working in the winter. Anything involving septic systems and load shaft seals on any JD tractor...pretty sure a mental defective came up with that setup.