Frank Surber
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- Joined
- Dec 1, 2012
- Messages
- 278
- Location
- Peacock TX
- Tractor
- John Deere 755c track Loader, John Deere 755bCase 431, Ford 2600, Taylor 25000lb forklift Ford 755 , Schramm 300 Pneumatractor, 8N Ford , Gravely 10A Kubota KH191, 1970 John Deere garden tractor with blade, 1985 John Deere 265 garden tractor Case 431
A few months ago I came into possession of a 1981 Ford 755 Backhoe, It hadn't been started in several years so the first thing to do was try and get it running enough to load it on the trailer. After checking all of the fluid levels and putting a couple batteries on it along with 2 sets of jumper cables connected to my old Ford F350 I tried to crank it over.the starter would just spin and not engage so I pulled it and freed up the drive bendix returned it to the tractor this time after a few minutes the engine finally started but ran poorly I figured it still had enough old diesel in it to effect the 5 gallons that I had poured in. But it would move under its own power even though just barely. It took nearly half an hour to coach it up the ramps of the lowboy trailer.
After un loading it I started working on it.
The guy who more or less gave it to me told me it had a few things wrong with it that he knew of one of which was his son had removed the injection pump and worked on it himself. the Alternator didn't work , It had an exhaust leak at the turbo and none of the gauges worked
Well I replaced the idler pulley for the fan belt and repaired a couple of broken wires to fix the alt. made a compression seal to fix the exhaust leak, and corrected the timing on the injection pump now at least it would start right up and after getting fully warmed the engine would reach about 2/3 rds full RPM I figured it might get better as time went along after all of the old fuel was out of the system. It has to some extent and gets better each time I use it
However it still barely can pull itself in anything but low gear and does not even move in high gear I don't need anything but low for what I am doing anyway though.
I have a question though about the function of the "T" handle on the side of the steering column the tag is mostly torn off and about all I cam make out is the word Transmission. I don't know if that needs pushed in for travel or pulled out.
After un loading it I started working on it.
The guy who more or less gave it to me told me it had a few things wrong with it that he knew of one of which was his son had removed the injection pump and worked on it himself. the Alternator didn't work , It had an exhaust leak at the turbo and none of the gauges worked
Well I replaced the idler pulley for the fan belt and repaired a couple of broken wires to fix the alt. made a compression seal to fix the exhaust leak, and corrected the timing on the injection pump now at least it would start right up and after getting fully warmed the engine would reach about 2/3 rds full RPM I figured it might get better as time went along after all of the old fuel was out of the system. It has to some extent and gets better each time I use it
However it still barely can pull itself in anything but low gear and does not even move in high gear I don't need anything but low for what I am doing anyway though.
I have a question though about the function of the "T" handle on the side of the steering column the tag is mostly torn off and about all I cam make out is the word Transmission. I don't know if that needs pushed in for travel or pulled out.
