Re: Depressing Day!

Posted by RBoots on April 23, 2017 at 19:46:26 from (173.241.113.102):

In Reply to: Depressing Day! posted by Bryce Frazier on April 23, 2017 at 12:18:49:

Well Bryce, that's too bad. I've had similar things happen. Not quite like that, but I know what you mean. I was putting the main shaft/pinion and countershaft back into a 450 IH I was working on when my dad came over. I had the countershaft back in and was getting ready to put the gears back on the main shaft. I had to leave for a little bit to go help my dad. I don't know what I was thinking, must have not been thinking, but when I got back to it, I slid 1st gear down the main shaft and then dropped all the others on. Got the rest of the stuff together, and slid the tractor back together, bolted it all up. Went to put the top cover on the trans, noticed I had put 1st gear on the shaft backwards. Lots of cussing for a bit, then I just decided to get after it, it wasn't going to work that way, or tear itself apart. I split it again, pulled the main shaft back out, slid all the gears off, flipped first gear, was going back together, and dropped the shaft with all the gears onto my finger which got stuck in between the shaft and the casting where the mainshaft bearing support goes. Well, that machined casting was as sharp as a razor on edge, and it just about cut through the joint of my middle finger. By now I was ready to be done, so I wrapped some tape around it, got the shaft in and slid it back together, then dropped the trans top cover down and bolted it up. By the time I was done, I had blood over every tool I'd used and all over that transmission. The anger within myself for such a stupid mistake made me just stick it out until it was a sealed up, moving unit again, which was my original goal. Sure it took much longer than I wanted to stay at the shop, but it was done correctly this time. Live and learn. I'll never laugh about that one though, I already have one finger I can't bend due to cutting it off when I was real little, and I couldn't bend that middle finger for a couple months, it really screwed that joint up.

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