hydro fan on my 147 good grief

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now i know why people say that narrow frames suck for drive-shaft and hydro linkage repair. i had to replace my driveshaft coupler and hydro fan. i figured i would have to remove the driveshaft. i found there is little room to work with. i removed the hydro filter. it gave me more room but i probably lost several quarts of hytran. i got the driveshaft out and i put the new fan in the same spot where the old fan was. i reinstalled the driveshaft and i realized the fan was in a spot that would destroy the blades. i attempted to move the fan foward and i ended up breaking it in the process. this is a real pain. does that fan make that much of a difference or is it same to just put it back together they way it is. my main objective was to replace the coupler and i wanted to replace the fan because i felt it should be replaced, the blades were broken. however it could have been like that for a long, long time with no ill effects.


another issue i fixed, the bolts holding the transaxle into the tractor frame were 1/2 missing and the others were loose. it was one step from falling out of the tractor. that would have been ugly, i took care of it.

im getting really sick of the prevous owners nonsense. nothing on this machine was ever done right, nearly everything was neglected or half-repaired. the machine is in much better mechanical condition then when i got it, but i still keep finding things done wrong or not at all. it gets on my nerves.

im not saying that narrow frames are bad tractors, on the contrary, they very well built. i just am starting to understand why IH did what they did when they came out with the wide frames. much easier to maintain the drivetrain.