Clutch housing

Question troops.

Successfuly adjusted clutch on my HD 16 today. Was set way too tight. Now at 28 pounds pull to engage. When I had the clutch cover off I noticed about 30 years old old black grease accumulated around toe torque converter. Do I need to clean that out or better left alone?

It is Morton.
There is an adjustment you can make to control the amount of force to engage the clutch. Per tke book it is not to be less than 15 pounds and not more than 30 pounds of force to engage the clutch. Mine was over 38 pounds. I adjusted it to 28 pounds. Simpler than I thought. Take off a floor plate, take off clutch cover plate, loosen a bolt and turn the adjustment ring. In my case moving ting counter clockwise 4 notches got it where I wanted to be.

You had me thinking your asking about the outside,wash away. I always figure bare metal lets heat escape better than caked on mud and oil. 

Ok on the out side a pressure washer would get you a good start. My uncle who made a living with a dozer would wash his down every so often. Fifty years ago he would fill a 300 gallon water trough and  portable pump with 2 inch discharge and nozzle about 1/4 inch. Gives good volume as well as good pressure could move a lot of dirt.

Edited by Ray54 - 26 Oct 2017 at 8:45pm

 Ian he did have some close calls with fires in the engine compartment what prompted him to start washing them out. The real tree /brush clearing was done from after WW2 to early 1960's.I was born in the 1950's so don't have any memories until the 60's and clearing new land had ended for the most part. The only safety device on the HD 14 was a U shaped pipe from the big bumper up to 4 feet above the hood to keep limbs from coming over the hood. The big Oaks with deep roots he would dig 3 sides up to 10 feet deep,pile the dirt into a ramp and push if it was a solid tree that would not drop limbs. If he thought there where limbs that would break he put a cable u high in the tree and pull. But some of the better land to clear had shallower rooted trees and grew thicker so not as big. I don't know how he judged trees,but no stories of close calls that I ever heard off.

Ray54 wrote: Ok on the out side a pressure washer would get you a good start. My uncle who made a living with a dozer would wash his down every so often. Fifty years ago he would fill a 300 gallon water trough and  portable pump with 2 inch discharge and nozzle about 1/4 inch. Gives good volume as well as good pressure could move a lot of dirt. He never used screens on the engine compartment,just wash it out when the belly pan filled.  Started with a HD 14C the first torque  converter AC,then a HD21 and finally a Fiat Allis FD 30.  Thank you Ray. Would love to get on a 30!

Now that's just crazy Ian.

Sounds like a Big Job!  FFWD to about 4:45, in this video, fer a surprise...

My uncle sold his FD30 to fellow who was mostly ripping for vineyard development had always run Cat but was having trouble keeping them cool. He liked the 30 so well he ended up looking for more of them.