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    Fordson Dexta restoration

    Jul 24, 2020 4 minutes

    PART 22

    YOU CAN DO IT

    DIFFICULTY RATING

    When we first embarked on the restoration of this Dexta, it hadn’t been running for several years. When it was worked it was only used to row up some hay using the hydraulics in position control and had never been used to undertake any ploughing or cultivation work, so the state of the hydraulic system was generally unknown.

    One fault we did find was a crack in one of the mounting lugs of the internal lift cylinder, which we believe has been successfully rectified and along with making a new position control pin that acts against the snail cam, which was worn through about 50 per cent, and equipping the system with new O-rings, that

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