Been gone off the site for a couple of weeks. Was down at the family farm tearing out and rebuilding about 1-1/4 miles of barb-wire fence. Of course I used the deuce as my pack mule which it did without complaint. So here's the story followed by pictures:
Showed up to get the deuce out of the barn and found an oily rim....indicating a blown inner axle seal. I'm like WTF???? I've replaced that seal 3 times and can't seem to keep it from leaking. Wasn't much oil on the rim and I didn't have time to tear the axle apart before needing to go get my supplies so I took it out on a test drive on the gravel roads (nearest neighbor is 1 mile away, no fears of hitting anyone if I lose brakes due to oil on the pads) for a couple of miles. Came back and parked it to see how bad the leak was going to be. Suprise suprise, no more oil leak?????? Knowing how little oil leaked out and how recently I had filled the axle I knew it wasn't out of oil, only thing I could figure was that it was actually overfilled a little bit and just seeped out past the seal when it was parked in the barn as that side was on a downhill angle.
Next day I went up to the hardware store about 45 miles away and picked up the following load: 75 8' creosote wood fence posts, 225 steel fence posts, 22 rolls of 4-barb barbed wire, 6 rolls of #9 wire and 16 lbs of staples. Got some funny looks when I pulled into the store but after the guys got done loading the truck up they were wanting to know where they could get their own to use as a delivery truck. Best guess is that I had over 8000 lbs of load on the deuce. The frame creaked a little more going around corners but other than that the truck didn't care. I had some very big hills to go up on the way home and only dropped down to 45 mph going up them, not sure what kind of EGTs I was pulling but was pushing about 15 psi of boost through. Got up to about 180 degrees on temp and that was it, usually runs about 165 to 170. Also checked, no oil leak on the axle when I was at the store......
Got back to the farm without incident and did yet another check for oil on the axle.... no leak. Spent the next 2 weeks working on the fence and took the truck over terrain that my ATV didn't like to negotiate. I sure as heck didn't take the tractor over that terrain. Intentionally went straight up a 45 - 50 percent grade hill just to see if I could....didn't spin once. Of course with about 2000 lbs in the back plus 6x6 in low range it should have done it easily. Its hard to tell in some of the pictures but I'm working on some pretty big hills. Also have to throw in one of my red heeler riding in the tractor when we were out digging post holes. At the end of the project no oil leak on the axle either, mystery to me why it was there other than an overfill and seep past situation.
Showed up to get the deuce out of the barn and found an oily rim....indicating a blown inner axle seal. I'm like WTF???? I've replaced that seal 3 times and can't seem to keep it from leaking. Wasn't much oil on the rim and I didn't have time to tear the axle apart before needing to go get my supplies so I took it out on a test drive on the gravel roads (nearest neighbor is 1 mile away, no fears of hitting anyone if I lose brakes due to oil on the pads) for a couple of miles. Came back and parked it to see how bad the leak was going to be. Suprise suprise, no more oil leak?????? Knowing how little oil leaked out and how recently I had filled the axle I knew it wasn't out of oil, only thing I could figure was that it was actually overfilled a little bit and just seeped out past the seal when it was parked in the barn as that side was on a downhill angle.
Next day I went up to the hardware store about 45 miles away and picked up the following load: 75 8' creosote wood fence posts, 225 steel fence posts, 22 rolls of 4-barb barbed wire, 6 rolls of #9 wire and 16 lbs of staples. Got some funny looks when I pulled into the store but after the guys got done loading the truck up they were wanting to know where they could get their own to use as a delivery truck. Best guess is that I had over 8000 lbs of load on the deuce. The frame creaked a little more going around corners but other than that the truck didn't care. I had some very big hills to go up on the way home and only dropped down to 45 mph going up them, not sure what kind of EGTs I was pulling but was pushing about 15 psi of boost through. Got up to about 180 degrees on temp and that was it, usually runs about 165 to 170. Also checked, no oil leak on the axle when I was at the store......
Got back to the farm without incident and did yet another check for oil on the axle.... no leak. Spent the next 2 weeks working on the fence and took the truck over terrain that my ATV didn't like to negotiate. I sure as heck didn't take the tractor over that terrain. Intentionally went straight up a 45 - 50 percent grade hill just to see if I could....didn't spin once. Of course with about 2000 lbs in the back plus 6x6 in low range it should have done it easily. Its hard to tell in some of the pictures but I'm working on some pretty big hills. Also have to throw in one of my red heeler riding in the tractor when we were out digging post holes. At the end of the project no oil leak on the axle either, mystery to me why it was there other than an overfill and seep past situation.
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