formerly ny bill
Well-known Member
I had a bad leak in the lift cylinder on my baby Fargo dump wagon.
My mechanic said he fix it if we could get it apart. Thing is huge and heavy. How to hold it after I drained the oil out of cylinder? This is what we came up with.
826 drawbar was just the right size to hold it from turning when we tried to unscrew the cylinder head.
Assemblies I salvaged years ago from Lundell and Gehl choppers were the right height to match the drawbar and get it up off the floor.
Unscrewing the head was an ordeal. Finally had to heat the barrel and use a 6' cheater bar on the 3/4 drive chain wrench to get the head off. The Farmall 400 drawbar anchored the rod to disassemble that.
When Dave gets the new seals, we get to repeat the process in reverse. I hope to use the wagon Saturday to open more fields. It fits down 3 rows behind the Fox without running down corn.
My mechanic said he fix it if we could get it apart. Thing is huge and heavy. How to hold it after I drained the oil out of cylinder? This is what we came up with.
826 drawbar was just the right size to hold it from turning when we tried to unscrew the cylinder head.
Assemblies I salvaged years ago from Lundell and Gehl choppers were the right height to match the drawbar and get it up off the floor.
Unscrewing the head was an ordeal. Finally had to heat the barrel and use a 6' cheater bar on the 3/4 drive chain wrench to get the head off. The Farmall 400 drawbar anchored the rod to disassemble that.
When Dave gets the new seals, we get to repeat the process in reverse. I hope to use the wagon Saturday to open more fields. It fits down 3 rows behind the Fox without running down corn.
