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gretschwhtfalcon 07-25-2018 04:06 PM
07...thanks so much for those suggestions...I'll gladly do all that up to the corn starch...not much point with that until I'd get a rebuilt engine in the tractor.

cooperino 07-25-2018 04:21 PM
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Of course I have those items, but the pics in the manual show using jacks to support the frame. Undoubtedly better, I'd wager, than building some sort of potentially collapsible tower comprised of randomly-sized wood pieces. Doesn't the support on both sides have to be the same distance from the floor? IF that gasket is even leaking (probably likely), couldn't the job be done if just the frame were taken off - without also then disconnecting everything that needs to be done to split the tractor?
Just took these pictures 2 min ago after reading this.. This tractor weighs in at 40,000 pounds.. All we crib up here with is wood. Safest way to hold anything heavy.
NEVER! EVER! Trust jacks to support the load long term. Jack it.. Block it. A jack can and will fail before a wood block will.

Dirty Steve 07-25-2018 04:57 PM
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Strip it down. You can still mow the lawn.:biggrin2:

gretschwhtfalcon 07-25-2018 04:58 PM
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Strip it down. You can add still mow the lawn.:biggrin2:
The tractor equivalent of a "chopper" LOL! Except that right now mine is a bit too stripped down...no head on the engine!

Alvy 07-25-2018 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by cooperino (Post 461524)
Just took these pictures 2 min ago after reading this.. This tractor weighs in at 40,000 pounds.. All we crib up here with is wood. Safest way to hold anything heavy.
NEVER! EVER! Trust jacks to support the load long term. Jack it.. Block it. A jack can and will fail before a wood block will.
Need to specify to use a hardwood block such as oak for something that heavy.

My company went from using oak blocks to the composite turtle plastics in all the service vans. Guys were making some of their own from pine and other soft stuff and that’s wasn’t good. We have a variety of sizes and lengths now plus wheel chocks too. Glad they made the investment in us and they work great.

sawdustdad 07-25-2018 08:00 PM
It's been like 4 years but I'm pretty sure I replaced the cork gasket without splitting the tractor on a WF or QL. It's definitely easier with it split, but I don't think it's required, as long as you don't have hydraulic lift lines in the way. Keith has a 129 so the tunnel cover gives you access to work.

gretschwhtfalcon 07-25-2018 08:08 PM
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It's been like 4 years but I'm pretty sure I replaced the cork gasket without splitting the tractor on a WF or QL. It's definitely easier with it split, but I don't think it's required, as long as you don't have hydraulic lift lines in the way. Keith has a 129 so the tunnel cover gives you access to work.
Pretty sure many people here know this (the highlighted part) by now. Some might wish I would NOT have one...LOL....

Thanks for additional info Frank... :)

cooperino 07-25-2018 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Alvy (Post 461534)
Need to specify to use a hardwood block such as oak for something that heavy.

My company went from using oak blocks to the composite turtle plastics in all the service vans. Guys were making some of their own from pine and other soft stuff and that’s wasn’t good. We have a variety of sizes and lengths now plus wheel chocks too. Glad they made the investment in us and they work great.
We have oak blocks for some heavier stuff. The 6x6's you see here are old PT landscape ties. I agree tho. With these you have to be sure to turn them against the grain so they do not split.

gretschwhtfalcon 07-25-2018 08:26 PM
Either way, based on what is being mentioned, I don't have any sort of wood blocks that would suffice for this, so guess I'll have to pass right now on the splitting.

cooperino 07-25-2018 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by gretschwhtfalcon (Post 461550)
Either way, based on what is being mentioned, I don't have any sort of wood blocks that would suffice for this, so guess I'll have to pass right now on the splitting.
Buy 2 8' 4x4 from home depot for 20$. cut into 12 or 18 inch pieces. You will have plenty.

Don't want to spend the 20? Pick up a few oak wooden pallets in your travels. Cut up the stringers.. Thats the 2x4 parts of the pallet. Screw a few together and cut to make 4x4's. Enough excuses man.. DOn't embrace excuses. Embrace solutions! :beerchug:


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