Have you ever had one of those days?

Have you ever had one of those days when everything goes wrong?

Day started out with hydraulic oil on floor. Stabilizer decided to leak. Just had the other stabilizer cylinder repaired. No reason, just started leaking all the sudden.

Then the lights went out on my batteryminder charger. I think it came with a 5 year warranty, just had it over 4 years. Just my luck, I can't find the paper work.

Then my cell phone jumps out of my pocket. Good news I moved the tractor and didn't run over it.

Tried to start lawn mower to move generator. Yep, turned key, not a click. Pushed it out of the way and used the spare mower.

Jubilee has sat since Nov 2014, no snow. Well I was going to drive it out of the garage and put the terramite inside to work on stabilizer. Hit the starter, heard an unusual sound and sheared off the starter drive for the second time. Is there a heavy duty drive I can install? This is the second one in 5 years. 8 Year old 12v battery. Perhaps I should check into a 12v starter. Does anyone have a spare one? Email is open. Using the old 6v after someone converted it to 12v.

Go to pull in the pole barn, no remote garage door clicker in truck.

What's next? I clocked out for the day.

I guess sometimes you are the buy and sometimes the windsheild.

Broken starter drives are pretty common on 12 volt conversions using the old 6 volt starter. The 12 volts won't hurt anything electrically, but it kicks out the starter drive so hard that they tend to break. A good starter rebuild place could make yours into a 12 volt.

I had the office version of your day- had some things I "just had to get out", and my printer went south at just the wrong time. Had a spare at home and have it up and running now, but was sure frustrating at the time. I can't do anything around here without the computer.

Mike, My day has been so bad, I decided to have a sit down when I went to the bathroom. Didn't want to chance getting my feet wet.

That starter reminds me very much of the one my IH 3444 TLB had. Lucas 12V pull type. It would lock up occasionally, but never had to buy parts for it. 12V does seem to give a 6 volt starter quite a jolt. So probably it would be better to find a 12 V starter.

Always an answer to a potential problem ! ;^)

not to add to your troubles, but you misspelled "bug".

Sometimes you're the hammer, others you're the nail. I hope tomorrow goes better for you.

Can't spell bug, Add to my list, I broke the plexiglass window on backhoe today. What a day.

Two octogenarians are sitting on a park bench, discussing their ills.

One says, "I've started taking a quarter of a Viagra a day."

Other guy says, "Why, you silly old fool. You're too old to be thinking about $ex, and besides, what good is a quarter of a Viagra gonna do, anyhow?"

First guy says, "Oh, I don't care about $ex. I'm just tired of peeing on my shoes."

Well! I'm glad you didn't call the starter drive a Bendix.

YEP, Yesterday I went to get a small travel trailer that was given to me. It sat on property my uncle bought. It had been there for about 15 years. Of coarse the tires were flat. No problem. I took the wheels off my 63 travel trailer. Too small. Went home and took 2 tires off of my car hauler. Went back to put them on. To small. Took a good look. Darn !!! 6 hole rims with large hub. Took them home to replace tires. No 15 inch tires. Took old tires off. Beads didn't look too bad. Rims rusted where they sat flat. Today I took a grinder to old rims. Dressed them up pretty good. Mounted old tires. They held air but leaking a little around bead. Aired up an air tank made from a refrigerant tank and an air tank from and old compressor. Took some lug nuts cuz one side only had one, the other side had three. Went back and mounted one side. The rim would not go on the other side. Center hole too small. What The!!! They look the same. Switched sides with wheels. It would not go on other side either. Oh well, looks like I can catch enough threads to hold it on. Mounted one. NOW WHAT??? lug bolts on other side are smaller. My lug nuts are too big. Went home to get the whole bucket of lug nuts. Went back one tire low, other almost flat. Used refer tank and aired up tire that was almost flat. My 50 ft air hose has a different fitting than the tank. Can't fill the low tire. Trailer tongue 5 ft from new fence. Put an old tire under tongue and drag trailer around to be able to hook up. Now to pull it the 30 miles home. One tire wobbling. An hour and one half to go 30 miles. Pull off the road when vehicles come up behind me. Finally get it home. Inside is a real mess. Pack rats had lived in it for a long time. No sweat. I just want the frame and axle anyway. Wifey comes out, looks it over really close and says "You know, it has never leaked" I say " yeah so" She says, "clean it up , fix what needs fixing. Our neighbor needs a place for her son to stay for when he moves out here from Pennsylvania."

Didn't Bendix make perhaps the first starter drive? Was the Bendix plant in N Indiana?

I looked for new starters. Many said their starter worked on both 6 and 12v.

Went on YT and for the price of 4 starter drives, I ordered a new 12v starter.

I already broke one a few winters ago. Now this one, time to do something about it.

Think about this, double the voltage, double the current, 4x the power. No wonder the drives can't hold up with that much impact.

The starter motor can hold up to that much power short term, but the drive can't.

A few years ago, I had to replace the drive on my converted Farmall C.

Both my old tractors have very old 12v batteries. One cell shows it weaker than the rest and it still shears off the drive.

I was almost thinking of installing a mower battery with less cca.

Vincent Bendix patented the starter drive in 1910 and had a factory in South Bend, Indiana.

Do you get in Terre Haute much, and if you do what is there at the former Pillsbury plant?
They also had one at Seelyville, but closed it years ago.

George, how do you get your stuff to break in the shed? Everybody else's breaks out in the field, at another farm, on muddy ground, while it is about to rain, and 700 bales worth of hay on the ground. You need to go and buy about a dozen lottery tickets.

All of my days are "One of those days"!!! :twisted: