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There are no yellow metals in the final drives, you’re good with that oil.
On the engine oil; It’s good that it’s black as coal tar. That means that it’s doing it’s job of holding all those carbon particles in suspension and not depositing them on critical wear parts like bearings and sleeve walls. Cold running engines produce more soot. Running mine at 185° to 190° greatly improves the thermal efficiency.
I wouldn’t use that new filter if I were you. I’d like to see at least three complete turns before it comes up snug. NAPA and Baldwin websites let you pick your filter by dimensions, and thread type/size/projection. Do you know if you have SAE or metric threads. Also, Ronald sells an inexpensive adapter to fit the oil filter head and change the thread from metric to SAE. Pretty slick. I use a NAPA gold filter, but I forgot the number.
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Good to see you back Grizz. Last time I changed oil (over 350 hrs. ago), it took 6-1/2 quarts with a filter change. I change by analysis now.
Circle G might have a dipstick, but I opted to use an aftermarket one from NAPA, seeing as how the rubber on the OEM dipstick kinda shrinks and goes away. I just copied the length and markings to the new stick.
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Wow, that’s cool, but I hear ya. I don’t know if I’ll finish my cement mixer.
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That cute little two-banger has been around for quite awhile, but they cannot be imported (legally). The elevated design of the swing (track) frames keeps the main frame and final drives from dragging through the rice paddies. A short footprint on a tracked machine isn’t desirable due to the washboard effect. This particular tractor isn’t available in a bulldozer configuration, it’s for pulling cultivators and plows, and using three-point hitch attachments.
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I will speculate that Spirit was purchased by, and incorporated into, McCormick some time after 2009.
You should be able to get consumable parts here, or at least find a source near you.
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This is the four foot deep caliche I’ve been working through lately. I feel your pain.
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That’s great progress considering what you’re digging through. I’m not familiar with the term “coleachy” but it sounds like you’re describing caliche (ka-lishe). It’s like grey concrete, but there are a couple of good ways to attack it without destroying your equipment in the process: It works much better if saturated with a 50/50 solution of water and baking soda (you can do that with a tank sprayer). Another thing that makes quick work of caliche is tiger teeth on your bucket. Just set your bucket at a slight angle toward the tractor and with the boom set in float, just drag it back toward you. You’ll be surprised what a difference those teeth make. Here is a pic of mine.
And by the way, I think frame mounts are widely overrated.
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Ok, as I see it in that pic is: Sediment bowl → lift pump → secondary filter → injection pump → return to lift pump suction. The poor “primary filter” is the screen in the lift pump.
If you wanted to install a 12v lift pump the plumbing would be approximately the same, with the addition of a primary filter and a return line to the tank. I think the engines were plumbed that way for convenience and cost savings. My engine was plumbed the same way. Everyone else has a return line to the tank.
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