Stormin

Tom, you've inspired a more senior man to get his finger out. Or more to the point, to sort a plough out.

Got the rear tyres fitted today. For £10 why struggle? Got the lift cable fitted as well. 3mm stainless with a plastic coat. Also a photo' of the brake pedal stop. Not very good to see, but best I could do. Pedal came a long way back. Just made out of a piece of alli' angle cut to suit.

Collected the bearings this morning. Just fitted one and it tapped in nicely. Very expensive though. £4-60 each. The pair cost £11-04 with the vat. I also had a good inspection of the pulley and could see no sign of it being altered.

Don't forget plenty of photo's.

Maybe it is, Chris. But I've got quite a lot of EP90 and if it was good enough for my Land Rover gearboxes and diffs, it'll do me.

Trans?

I'll trade for some EP90.

Pity the rear wheels aren't split rims.

Put the cast ones on one side. Chris. I'll collect next month.

Nice job Chris.

Went out early this morning and when I got home look what awaited me. So the afternoon was well spent. The result being this. I'll get ATS in Wigton to fit the rears on Monday.

I'll not be stuck, Chris. But another mule with cast steel pulleys wouldn't go amiss. Save me making two steel ones to replace the pressed ones. You could be right, Richard. The bearing is Japanese BTW.

I wish you'd mentioned the pipe about three weeks ago. I could have brought some down to Rural Past Times. We threw out four 2ft lengths. SWMBO used them for growing leeks.

£1-20p! You'll get more than that for scrap. How about making some harrows?

It's a 6230RSx3/4 that was in, Richard. That's printed on the seal. Not 6230-2RS-12. I had to tap it out. I'll let you know the fit when I get it.

Richard, the bearing details for the cast pulley are :- 6203RS X 3/4. Company name is Eriks. Branches nation wide.

Ahh yes wireing. Not my favourite either.

Some time ago, must be well over a year ago, the bearing on the inner V pulley on the C-125's mule failed. The pulley was one of the pressed steel type, with the bearing sandwiched between the two halves. The two halves spot welded together. I did get them apart but nothing more was done, as The Showman supplied another mule. Now the same thing has happened to that mule. But to my delight, the pulleys are not tin but cast steel. Bearing held in with a circlip. So two new bearings to collect next week. Now the C-125 is Southbend origin, made in '82. The bearing in the cast pulley is a mixture of metric and imperial. Makes me wonder if the tin pulley mule is original to the 125? Tin as a cost saver? And is the cast pulley mule a Belgium made item? Or a pre tin one? Thoughts anyone?

Wish I'd never sold mine.

In the cutlery drawer?

Thanks lads. New tyres ordered today. Front and back. Should be here Monday or Tuesday.

As promised some photo's and a brief run down on what I did yesterday. In the morning I got hubs etc. 11-30am I set to work. First of all I had to see if the wheels would fit in the lathe and on the face plate. They did. Just clearing the bed and the face plate fitted inside the wheel dish. How to bolt wheel to face plate next problem. I'd have to use the wheel bolt holes and pack the wheel forward off the face plate. The pcd in the wheels was 2-3/4" and the hubs 4" The wheel centre needed to be opened up from 2" to 3", to fit the hub spigot. So that meant I had to drill new holes in the wheels. So I made a wooden bung to fit the wheel centre hole and the ID of the hub where the bearing outer race fits. This made it possible to mark through the hub stud holes, after removing the studs, and mark the wheel for re-drilling. Simples! Not really. Trying to spot through all four holes without hub or wheel moving was damn near impossible. So after much deliberation, sweat, blood and tears, I took a chance and just drilled two opposing holes. I could only use two too fasten the wheel to the face plate anyway. Six slot face plate. Two wrong better than four. Using two short lengths of studding, eight nuts and washers, a wheel was bolted to the plate. Getting it to run true was another thing. Easy enough clocking the wheel centre, getting rid of the wobble was something else. Eventually I started on boring out the wheel centre. This took some time as I could only take small cuts. Next, using a hub as a drill jig, I ended up with two like this. I put the wheel studs back in and tried wheels to hubs. Much to my delight they fitted. Though one wheels holes did required a little tickling with a round file. 8-30 pm job done. Went to get the spindles I forgot to ask for this morning, only to be told none in stock. They're on order now, but will not be in till a week Monday.

That's a nice little shaper. I've done no amount of work on it's bigger relatives over the years. Looks like a handy mini digger in the back ground.

I got septicaemia from a spider bite.

Very dubious looking character.