Rebuilding the D14 backhoe/loader

You just need a good front bumper on that big boy truck then it ant haunting it's an accident.....
Tell the wife to get some chemicals for that poison oak. That stuff is nasty I don't mind poison Ive but the oak is nasty.

Well some of the deer should have been ok. Might take a few to get one good one for the freezer...

LMAO a friend of mine had a ford ranger he rear ended a chevy 3/4 ton. Said the front bumper of his truck was on the ground lights smashed in and the fenders messed up. The chevy looked perfect. He was right infront of a Toyota dealer. The guy with the chevy actually laughed at him and said I don't need to report it as far as i am concerned that is what you get for driving a ford. I heard this story ad Ray was showing us the brand new Rav 4 that he bought trading in the beat up ford. Before I could say a word someone else said so ray looks like you didn't learn anything that toy motor won't take a hit any better then the ford. That was about 12 years ago and I remember it clear as day we all laughed soo hard.

lol....makes ya wonder if that dude was test driving the vette??  lol

dang Joe! that ole gal looks GOOD! now it's to purdy to use it! whew! that needs to be in someones inside collection! me thunks, you need to build a big building and start collecting!

Looks great but it looks do good you sure you actually want to dig a hole you might scratch it up... you better to find a beater to use... lol. Congrats on a job well done.

hey.....where's the beer holder on that thing?

    Hey THANKS Guys for the nice comments,,,its been a long time gettin here,,and like my Good Buddy says,,,WHEW!!!,  Feel free to come on down, Michael,,we'll take your trk and go cruise Sonic,,,,
    Drove it out from the carport yesterday and gave the hoe a good workout and the swing cylinder works "Many Wonderfuls" ,,,
   If I ever catch up with the idiot that assembled the cylinder wrong to cause me all these headaches,,,,I gonna make him,,,,,,,,,,well,,,I'm gonna make him drink at least 5 Black Labels that been in the garage (HOT) for at least 7 months,,,,,,, That outa teach him,,,,By Golly,,,!!!
   Took a grease gun and hit all the new zerks and,,,,,,,,there is ONE that would NOT take any grease,,and is the big cylinder on the crowd,,,so back in the carport it goes. Gonna try to melt the old grease first, but like all others,,will prolly have to remove and machine a new pin,,,,,THEN,,,I should be able to say " It Done",,,,,
 I did quite a bit of documentation on the disassembly and rebuild of the Cessna Swing Cylinder, with part numbers and am thinkin bout doin a write up for others here. It's not really a complicated process but lots of time could of been saved with a good step by step,,,,, I can't remember which member here called out Albert's phone number with Ziegler Equip, but that guy was a life savior in gettin me the right parts,,so Thanks to him,,,,,
   

  Well, Guys,,,It passed it's first job,,,!! Our Water Co-op passed a BS regulation that henceforth,all members have to install a block valve 3 feet inside your property line, that "YOU" will use for shutting off water when you need to,,,,BS,,,BS,,,BS,,!! But since I ain't a law breaker like ole Shame,,,er,,one of our buddies,,,I' went ahead and started a line finder dig out,,,Backhoe did many wonderfuls,,,,,,
 Got her back under carport to clean it up and tuoch up the scratched paint on the bucket,,,,,,,just kidding,,,,,,,,,,

 I remembered I did have one last job to do,,,,The Industrial models have an oil cooler in the bottom of the Radiator for the Shuttle and the PO had cobbled up the fittings at the cooler and they were in the way of the left brake pedal, so I had temporarily installed a rubber hose jumper from fitting to fitting until I got time to plumb the cooling lines correctly. Yesterday, when I removed the jumper hose,,,some really thick gunk came out of the line like maybe the oil had not been circulating in the cooler,,,??? Anybody got an idee how much pressure there should be at these lines as it has to get to the radiator and back,,,,,,??? Dang,,,hope this ain't another OH,Oh,,

You do need to sort it out though the d serries started with gear oil in the torque tube but was quickly changed over to hydraulic because clutches didn't hold up to the gear oil. I read something about that a while back.

Lookin GOOD!!!  CONGRATS buddy!!

I needs something like that around up here.......seems I got some peoples who like to "borrow" my stuff when I'm gone.  I'm thinkin maybe they just might disappear?????? next time I see em on MY land....

Yup then drunks sure can be trouble.   They toss out aluminum cans in a field you chop for cows and then the can gets shredded and kills the cows. They call it hardware. Try to collect anything on that you can't insurance won't cover it either we lost alot of good cows that way. Ended up working with the police to get them to monitor the field entrance. Took a long time but the fields are better now.

Building a manure pile near the entrance to the field did catch one drunk. He buried his truck all the way to the door in the pile an it was really wet manure got all through the truck. I figured it must have stunk for years after that.

   Well,,my Series 2 1/2 D14 done got another job under it's belt with great results,,,,,
 I had been needin to install a bigger line for the outlet of the kitchen sink,,,so I dug the trench out to the south bout 100' long and it done many wonderfuls,,,,,YEA,,, bout halfway,,the engine just up and died and had lost fire,,,,found the new points I had installed during the rebuild had pitted real bad,,,so I filed the contacts and fired that mother back up,,,anyways,,finished the ditch up and now gonna wait for cooler weather to run the line,,,,,
 There is ONE MORE THING,,,for the hydraulic/ backhoe GURUS here. Whenever I had to move the tractor back,,I kept havin to get off the "backhoe seat" and reach down to shift the selector valve from backhoe to loader,,,raise the bucket,,shift valve back to B/H,, then crawl back over to the B/H seat to move B/H,,,move back to selector valve,,,shift back to loader, lower bucket,,,shift back to B/H ,,,,CHIT,,,what a CF,,,!!!   Ya see what I;m talkin bout,,,????,,,,, This .little tidbit is a BIG PITA,,I'll tell youse guys for sure,,,,I'm really wantin to relocate the selector valve  to where I can reach it from the B/H seat,,,,OR,,,,,do away with it completely,,,,?? I remember the 3 B/H's at work didn't have a selector valve ,,,so,,,What is the net affect of removing the valve,,,,,?? It gonna be a good sized job to relocate the valve but,,,,,,????
  Needin some kind words and,,,and,,,remember its Sunday,,,,,

    Well,,I went out and had a close look see at the selector valve piping and shouldn't be too big a deal for an old shade tree pipefitter like ole Joe,,,, I may even try to do it today if TSC has the fittings I will need. Thats one issue I got with  this TSC,,it don't carry very many plumbing fittings and what little they have are all galvanized,,!! I told the little woman manager I was gonna sic ole Shameless on her for thet,,,,,she just rolled her baby greens and smiled,,,,
   Oh,,and Dan,,,me being "thrifty" I ain't gonna throw thet BRAND NEW selector valve with only 3 hours runnin time on it,,,in the trash,,,, I figure somebody here will need one just like it. It has 1" inlet and 2- 1" outlets,,,Hey, hey, hey, Um,ma, ma, ma, this heres brand new folks,,,still got the the new paint on it,,Um,ma, ma, ma. whata ya say,,,hey, hey, hey,,,,,,
 I'm still tryin to learn postin pics with Win10,,,chit,,,,