Crankshaft is going to require a regrinding but the interesting thing was the gear. I had left the gear on the crankshaft when I took it in to the shop and the machinist commented that it looked pretty worn and wondered what the camshaft drive gear looked like. "Funny you should ask", I said, remembering the odd chips off the front of several of the camshaft gear teeth. Looks like there's a couple of new gear in my future and probably three if I count the govenor drive gear.
The first picture shows another interesting finding as I disassembled the left side track. Note that the track frame was trying to escape without taking the rest of the crawler with it. I'm surprised I hadn't noticed it before but I guess I need to just chalk it up to not knowing what I'm doing or what I'm looking at.
This second picture is view of some really well worn sprocket teeth. Between the shape of the sprockets and the pins and bushings, I'm really surprised I didn't jump the track off the machine.
A view of the rockshaft, housing, and lift arms after removal. These things are a bit heavy if you're lifting them off by yourself.
View of the back with most of the 3 point hitch now removed. Starting to feel like I'm making some progress.
This is the right side steering shaft after I removed the welded on broken steering lever. It was a half-###ed repair but fortunately the welding wasn't any better. No penetration so I just ground it level with the end of the shaft and it was done for.
Here's the broken steering lever. I've got an idea for a repair that should restore it to normal using a welder and a milling machine. I'll show you the after pictures when I get done.
Here's the last interesting finding for this part. As you look down into the steering clutch housing, if you look closely you'll see that the steering control arm is welded to the steering lever shaft. I'm just dying to know how this works out for me as I now a shaft that has something welded to it on either side of a hole through the housing casting. If I could wait until the 23rd century, I'd have the shaft beamed over to a machine shop. Beings it's the 21st century, I'm certain I'm going to have to resort to more crude methods of dematerializing something to get this disassembled.
All for now. If this stuff is driving somebody to drink more than you already do because you also work on crawlers, good for you. If it's just irritating, tell me to stop.
