RustyBolts
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Yup. My only problem is "the shop" is 200 miles away...
Ya know, it's irritating how much school, work, and life in general get in the way of projects. The 720 has sat neglected since the last update on it, and we haven't even gotten started on the 4020. What makes things worse is hay season is right around the corner. It sounds like the 720's gonna get new rod bearings, rings, and head gasket and go back to the field. The pumps & injectors are gonna have to wait another year I guess.
The 4020, well, it may have to go this hay season naturally aspirated. I've got everything I need to turbo it, minus the time and shop space. On the other hand though, it NEEDS a new head gasket the worst way in the world. Rear right side of the block is black form the oil that runs down it from the leaky head, and valve cover gaskets. On top of that, the Power Shift VB needs gone through and cleaned/honed because I've got a valve sticking, causing some really funky shifting! (Forward and reverse neutral is 7th, 1st is actually 3rd and 2nd is actually 4th. The valve that controls pressure to the C1 and C2 clutch packs is stuck in the C2 apply position.)
At this point, I'm pretty much just waitin' on Lane (or rather Dad) to get the rod bearings, and the rest of the gaskets for the 720 ordered, delivered, and installed so that we at least have one big tractor to use for first-cutting.
Here we go again!
That sounds like my luck. Sunday i went and hooked up the disc mower to my 720 to check it out before I cut some wheat hay. Hooked it up and drove up to the barn. Went to fold it up and about the time the cutter bar got folded up it blew a small plug out of the lift cylinder(only leaked when folding up the cutter bar). I check the oil in everything and let the cutter bar back down and turn it on and get a gear raddling somewhere. Sounds like 2 gears without the correct amount of backlash between them. To boot the wheat is ready now and I don't have the time to fix the disc mower. Oh well.
If I were you, I'd check and make sure the u joints on the disc mower were phased correctly. There's one on our #12 Massey Square baler that was welded in out-of-phase by the previous owner. It's not bad as long as we're going in a straight line, but it makes a hellacious amount of racket whenever you turn it the least little bit.
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Naked 720 gettin a bath
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Half an hour before being put back in the field
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Cutting the backswath
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4020 with Roll-o-matic, and 4-row cultivators with the 4520 behind the wall
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More 4020
When we run the cultivators through for the second time, I'll be sure to take some video of it, so y'all can see it too. It's pretty cool the questioning looks you get from folks around my age, and the ear-to-ear grins the older folks get when you have to pull over so they can get their cars around the 12' wide rig coming down the road.