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8550 repair pictures (She lives!) |
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Alex09(WI)
Orange Level Joined: 15 Mar 2012 Location: CECIL WI Points: 1699 |
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Posted: 14 May 2017 at 12:15pm |
I have been helping repair an 8550 this past weeks. There were bad gears in the pto dropbox. I wasn't there for the teardown, but it was very time consuming.
Edited by Alex09(WI) - 16 May 2017 at 11:38pm |
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shameless dude
Orange Level Joined: 10 Apr 2017 Location: east NE Points: 13611 |
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wow...that looks like a mell of a hess!
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macvette
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Ya, what that Shameless Dude said = and I think he has seen it all! LOL!
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DSeries4
Orange Level Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: Ontario, Canada Points: 7233 |
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Man, I thought taking my 190 apart was a real job. That 8550 is huge! My new motto is: the bigger it is, the harder it is to fix!
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Looks like my 7580 last year that was miserable.
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Mikez
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Yea any time a skid steer is in the job your doing something good
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Alex09(WI)
Orange Level Joined: 15 Mar 2012 Location: CECIL WI Points: 1699 |
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With a tractor this big, there is quite a bit of stuff to disconnect and remove just to get at the major parts. I am not sure how many man-hours will be in this repair, but im guessing a lot. We should have it going by the end of the week, we are waiting on an oil pump. The first start in 5 years should be quite a sight!
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Nathan (SD)
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I thought that dust on the windows looked fairly aged. Good to see another AC kept alive. |
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Alex09(WI)
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We got her fired up today for the first time in 7 years! Torqing the mains and rods took 2 guys! 400 ft lbs on the mains! We'll get her in the fields later this week as we are already 2 weeks behind on our crops :(
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Alex09(WI)
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it sure sounds good! congrats!
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JPG AUSTRALIA
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Well done,good on ya for keeping the old girl alive,great to see!,!
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Tim NH
Orange Level Access Joined: 16 Oct 2012 Location: Lancaster NH Points: 1066 |
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Wow, that's absolutely impressive. I can see you were some happy. That's the way to end a long project. Tim
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JC-WI
Orange Level Access Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: wisconsin Points: 33683 |
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liked how it started puffin smoke out of one ex. then out of the other ... and then both started smoken and finally she started hitting and caught hold and didn't take long to quit that smoke... and the low rumble with the turbo whine... Man that sounded good.
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Ryan Renko
Orange Level Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: Edwardsville, I Points: 2315 |
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That old girl sounded great!!!! Congrats on your hard work!!! Lets see some action in the field!! Ryan
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Unit3
Orange Level Joined: 17 Oct 2009 Location: NC Iowa Points: 5504 |
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That looks like a long and very big project and I take my hat off to you, but, I want you to do one more thing before you close her up. I want you to pull the valve covers off and run it to check just how much oil is coming out of the rocker arms and down to the valves, adjusting screws, push rods, lifters, and cam. Oil pressure is not oil volume. Our old 4W305 ran @ 65 psi and would not even wet the top of the head after 10 minutes of running in the shop. Pulled the rocker arm shaft and ground a grove from the 4 O'clock hole up to around 3 and 9 to 2 and 10 O'clock. This let the oil out of the shaft and up through the rocker arms.
I know this sounds dumb and no one else on here will agree with me, and I don't care. I have seen it first hand how adjusting screws wear out and push rods turn blue from heat and bend. All caused from a lack of oil volume. When a WC makes more oil volume up top then 4W305, it is a bad day, but a far worse day is coming.
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Mikez
Orange Level Access Joined: 16 Jan 2013 Location: Usa Points: 8176 |
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That sounds awesome. You have a pit crew too
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cbuttre835
Bronze Level Joined: 12 Nov 2010 Location: Peytonsville TN Points: 105 |
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What blew out of the front turbo?
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Ted J
Orange Level Joined: 05 Jul 2010 Location: La Crosse, WI Points: 18743 |
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WOW!! You've been busy since I last saw you! CONGRATS
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Orange Blood
Orange Level Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Location: ColoradoSprings Points: 4053 |
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We have had a couple like that, seems they take forever to get back to them sometimes.
Congrats on the first run!!!
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Orange Level Joined: 31 Jul 2012 Location: NW KS / S.C. ID Points: 1973 |
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Props for keeping it alive and out of the bonepile!
She sounds pretty nasty! The 516 and the 731 and 844 have a startup that will give you goosebumps, that is for sure. :) |
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Mikez
Orange Level Access Joined: 16 Jan 2013 Location: Usa Points: 8176 |
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Wish we had guys like you around here to work on stuff
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Alex09(WI)
Orange Level Joined: 15 Mar 2012 Location: CECIL WI Points: 1699 |
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It was a day to remember around there. The tractor had been sitting in the same spot in the shed for the past 7 years. The owner David was very happy to get it going (he was cranking in the cab) That day was also the 5 year aniv. of his father's death. He is an all allis farm with his daughter and will be getting it in the field this weekend hopefully!
The shirtless guy on the engine was checking for oil on the rockers which did show up within 60 seconds :) We are currently repairing the top pivot articulating ball which has a lot of vertical slop. It has been raining here so we have not been able to plant or work much ground lately, but we will be chisel plowing with it soon. I will get some pictures for sure!
Yes, those turbo(s) sure do sound good! First grey smoke, then black, then it fired up! |
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Tracy Martin TN
Orange Level Access Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Gallatin,TN Points: 10575 |
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Looks and sounds great!
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No greater gift than healthy grandkids!
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AC7060IL
Orange Level Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Location: central IL Points: 3215 |
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Awesome! Thanks for posting pics & video.
Great startup video! Sorry to hear of your friend'a loss of loved one. Congrats to their restored AC8550 & their all ALLIS farm. |
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