Tractor & Farming Heritage

CUTTING A DASH

The customer who owns the MF 135 I have been working on asked me to sort the dash panel out while I had it and to replace the dials.

Swimming

It made sense because I had to remove it to get to the gearbox and steering box beneath it. The rev counter/tachometer was barely legible. I found out once it was removed that it was swimming in black engine oil. After I had tipped it about, the whole glass was blackened.

I discovered that the seal in the take-off drive at the end of the camshaft was perished when the engine was stripped. Earlier in the strip down of the engine, I had discovered that the breather pipe coming from the rocker box had perished, spewing oil down the engine block.

One of the final

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