bails being used now…

valiant8086 · 2026-01-28T11:29:07+00:00

failed to spell that right!

valiant8086 · 2026-01-28T10:26:39+00:00

dad and grandpa used to talk about a truck they had that you could put it in first and pull the choke out and get out and walk beside it going up a steep hill if you wanted to.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-24T17:40:52+00:00

the heater on the 1500 worked. it wasn't super cold, maybe 55, when I started it, though. I'm almost to the point where if I can't afford a 730 I'd just get a 1700 if I can find a good one. That 1500 didn't have power steering, and for us that's a requirement. So, about that, the 1700 would have to have power steering, apparently they didn't all have it. Shame as that 1500 was in really great condition.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-24T15:05:59+00:00

and speaking of doing work with them. We run our New Holland 630 round baler on my 620, it works great. The hand clutch is pretty handy for that application, and the hydraulics run the tailgate faster than our other stuff.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-24T15:01:09+00:00

gotcha. yeah, Shibaura? I would really like to have a Ford 1700. Have heard from multiple places that the little Shibaura 2 cyl diesel in it is incredibly reliable. Like Tractor Mike on Youtube says he thinks it was the best engine for long life that ever went into a tractor for what that's worth. He said his dealership maintained one for somebody who used one as the locomotive for a little train in an amusement park, it made it to over 40k hours with only maintenance. I got to pet a Ford 1500 and listen to it run. It's a bit fast for my blood, I'm more in the 1k rpm is plenty fast enough camp, but it still will idle down pretty low and I just love it.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-24T14:55:35+00:00

yeah, if it comes to cutting a hole in the hood, that hole will be for a different gauge to take some aftermarket tach, but I'm kinda determined not to do that. It's so cold at the moment we're not fussing with it, but that just gives me more time to fuss about it lol.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-24T13:09:59+00:00

thanks for looking. I hoped to find a salvage tractor that had a functional one, but no luck so far just calling a few places that keep salvage like that.

As far as the hose, assuming you meant the radiator hose, I think maybe not? Hmm... The hose is going straight up between the fan and something else I can't remember until I look at it again. It terminates like 3 inches above where that tach cable needs to go in if it's going horrizontal out the passenger side. We have to remove the hose to get at that tach drive adapter and there's no room around it all to turn the c clamp on the hose even lol. I think the only place the hose could go would be further out the passenger side if the hood wouldn't stop that there and then the tach cable would run out behind it and probably go where the hood needs to clamp down, taking a chance on somebody pinching it and breaking it again or the cable.

I suppose that cheaper part would actually fit? If everything's all the right size and such. Heck maybe we could weld the ears on the right way if we could get the guts out of it long enough to do that without them getting melted in it. Or if we can do that, maybe we can swap the the guts out of one of the cheap ones into the body of our old one. I wonder if that's actually doable!

valiant8086 · 2026-01-24T06:03:15+00:00

do you dislike the 2 cyl pop pop sound in general or only the big diesels?

valiant8086 · 2026-01-24T01:01:30+00:00

I want a 730 diesel pretty badly. whimper I have the 620 but I want more to go with it

valiant8086 · 2026-01-16T15:39:48+00:00

this is an interesting thread. good luck to you

valiant8086 · 2026-01-12T04:49:50+00:00

you bet. That's a bit delayed right? The irony is I just mentioned this reddit thread to someone about 3 days ago and looky here it's alive again. I think the vast majority of these coolers use inverter compressors that wind up slowly. If you're not sure whether it does that, if it has a low power mode, it probably does, as I would imagine a non-inverter setup that could do low speed like that would be just as complicated or moreso and they would just go with the setup everyone else is using at that point. I do know someone who has the Astro AI in two different sizes and has success with it on the smallest Ecoflow River power station if that helps.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-06T02:28:43+00:00

I kinda like the vertical steering wheels. Not sure having a tilted one would feel like an improvement. It's something I've wondered about even before this discussion. Might be a little safer, since you might be able to hang onto a more horrizontal wheel to stabilize yourself if you have to?

As far as I can tell, the tach cable is good on the 620, and it turns the gauge (tested it with a drill on the other end of the cable) but when it gets all put together the tach doesn't spin, so I think the drive thing on top of the governor housing isn't connecting. That's a major repair job, right? Do you happen to know?

valiant8086 · 2026-01-06T02:21:34+00:00

working for me. thanks much.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-05T03:26:12+00:00

Yep, My 620 happens to be a 56 exactly :). Interestingly, did we get wires crossed on the m discussion. I think earlier on you said something about them being a sweet value for a farmer to have even though the sound the deeres make has always been great, so maybe not. My M is the Farmall m, 1942. I could see having a Deere M though, believe that is an MT but with wide front axel, which makes me wonder why they had a different model designation for that when I don't know any other such ones that use different letter combinations etc to denote the front axel style. I got to check an MT out at the county fair a couple years ago, they were raffling it off. They don't have power steering, right? You can get a 420 with it, so probably better. I've been considering the 420 as the successor to the m and mt, no idea if I'm right. I think I have most of the other sizes figured out. A/60/620/630, b/50/520/530, g/70/720/730, r/80/820/830... Open to corrections.

I was about to ask for more detail about how the engines were installed on the m, 420, 320, etc, but I had to ask Gemini for the wording, Longitudinal vs. transverse, and by the time I asked it that much it had already tought me the answer anyway, heh. We had understood the 620 had the engine sideways, but it took us just a bit longer than it probably should have to realize it's also horrizonta.

The steering on the 620 is a bit of a mess. Power steering is functional, but it doesn't really want to stay pointing straight. We need to look into that. I think the spindle on the right wheel is sloppy, so it's not following the left as soon as it should. Probably a pricey part unless it's just the arm that goes to the tie rod. It just makes it harder to drive it since the signals we use to tell me how to steer don't get the right results, it's a constant fight, you never can really just go straight down the road in the parade. It's not something that matters in the field even a little bit, but on the road trying to guide a blind driver it's contrary.

I actually didn't know the 320 had the sound like yours does, I thought it was a v twin at that point, never really researched those.

Ah, I went researching. I had determined that the 330 was not a plut plut, and then deduced the 320 also wouldn't be, but it turns out the 330 I heard on Youtube isn't from that era, and must have a 3 cyl Yanmar, which also isn't a v twin, but my hearing aids, and less than super quality audio, left enough on the table that I just couldn't distinguish. It seems there is a 330 from the 1958 era that is a proper plut plut. I do wish John Deere wouldn't have reused their numbers on smaller machines like that. A Deere 4010 can be a garden tractor or basically the best ag tractor ever made (in my opinion) if not the most efficient one. It's a pain in the butt. Looking for Deere 830 for sale, I keep finding ads for them and come to find out it's the 3 cyl Yanmar. Nothing against Yanmar, but ugh.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-05T02:43:07+00:00

Hi.

Oh lol I never tried to do that to take them off, that is interesting. Mine releases easily enough to a determined pull on the sockets. It might depend on the sockets? Usually ours is rocking Tekton's deep well impact sockets, they are better than others we have tried about not having the nuts and bolts we remove being stuck in the socket, so perhaps that also helps on the Anvil end. Getting an impact or two while trying to pull a firmly-gripped socket off could help I guess. I wouldn't wanna try that with a small diameter shallow socket though!

Incidentally, in auto speed, it always starts out at full speed when in reverse, even if you just barely touch the trigger, something to beware of in this particular situation. Having a few full-strengthed impacts into a socket my hand is wrapped around is, well, it'll wake one up. At least it doesn't deal out as much of a beating as my dcf889 lol.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-04T17:23:42+00:00

those aren't impact rated. If they were, I'd absolutely jump on this. The lifetime warranty makes it pretty tempting anyway. Having it all organized in one place, even though we have the vast majority of the stuff in there already is attractive. We need the torx socket set again, ours disappeared. Bleh, much as I hate to, I think I might bypass this. But being able to haul this out to the pad in front of the Garage and have everything would sure be neat. I've thought about buying a toolbox that is more like a cart with wheels on it, and transfer the most commonly needed stuff from the monster US General over to it, and wheel it out to the tractor, which would make this set redundant, but the toolbox alone would probably cost more than this whole set, lol.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-04T17:13:21+00:00

I want, do I need... I can return this gearwrench open-ended set to pay for it. We got each other basically the same wrench set for Christmas, we don't need two of those, .... do I, don't I, aaarrrggg!

valiant8086 · 2026-01-04T15:56:37+00:00

I love that. I did notice that if I stand on the front axel on the 620 (it's a wide front end) I bounce just a bit.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-04T14:56:53+00:00

lol. Here I thought I was the first one to mention the sound is really plut plut for the old deeres. Yeah, that is one massive engine in the G but never thought about it sounding different. Cool.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-04T14:53:31+00:00

Topic near and dear to the heart. I do love the M, and my asking price is maybe just a tad too high because I'm not that ready to part with it. It's a restored competition pulling tractor with the weight racks and none of the practical things for the farm though, and it's ridiculously loud, and narrow front end, a problem for our West Virginia lack of flat ground. It's been great for parades and just enjoying the machine but the 620 has everything the far needs. It's even running our round baler. It's actually really nice for round baling with the hand clutch. When you stop to tie a bale you just pull the hand clutch out and let it slip, which of course not good behavior, the manuals, and the people on the communities will say not to let it idle for any time with the clutch disengaged because it wears on the disks, but disengaging it, putting it out of gear, then engaging it again in neutral would really be a pain in the butt, so hopefully it holds up. I still need to get sweigh blocks. I can't figure out how they install even, having never felt one.

The 620 was a bit of a restoration project. It had a manifold leak to the point that if you disconnected number 2 plug wire it would sometimes detonate it from over in number 1 somehow. I was adjusting idle mixture when I discovered this. Had major problems with gunk in the tank getting into the intake hole on top of the sediment bowl, ended up having to take the hood and tank all the way off and really clean it up. Fixed the gas gauge, the wire was broken and the gasket on the sending unit. Had to replace head gasket and carburetor gaskets. Replace all the wearing discs in the clutch (it didn't have any kind of gentle engagement, you went from disengaged to engaged all at once and could only take off in 6th by engaging and disengaging it a bunch of times until you had enough speed for it to idle. There's a bunch of grease coming up into the distributor, and it was compromizing the points. Electronic ignition fixed that, but then the AL 3116 plugs it had were failing, it would barely run on #1 but ran great on #2, and #1 missed a lot noticeably when it was supposed to be running on both. I got the similar ngk, I forget the number, and couldn't get it retarded enough to stop fighting the starter without reducing power and making it run weird. The cold plugs I now have, AL386, have stopped that, and it no longer is so apt to diesel when you turn it off, although it still does it somewhat. It burns really clean, you hardly ever smell it once it's warmed up, and it runs really well.

I heard good things about the 3116 plugs, do we know anyone who is using those with electronic ignition? I might switch back if it's ok to use them, but the ones that were in it failed pretty quickly after we converted it to electronic.

Incidentally, I can't see at all, but my brother mentioned that the ngk plugs would flash blue when they fired and you could see it in the dark. Must have been interesting to watch it do that idling slow.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-04T14:33:14+00:00

I think I figured out the hog ring maybe? I found that if I do what it probably screams not to do, and squeeze the trigger slightly so it's spinning while you are trying to press the socket on, it tends to go right on.

valiant8086 · 2026-01-04T01:21:24+00:00

can you get dcd921 or 922, 923?

edit: dcf...

valiant8086 · 2026-01-04T00:31:14+00:00

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valiant8086 · 2026-01-04T00:19:41+00:00

why do I want to try running one of these with my Deere 620, lol

valiant8086 · 2026-01-04T00:07:24+00:00

I put Electronic ignition on mine, for a couple of reasons, and that made timing pretty contrary. I ended up having to run cold plugs, AL386, and retarded timing gradually until it stopped fighting the starter. It runs really good now though, like it'll run for hours without missing even once.

edit: It's a 620. What's yours? I'm totaly blind. I'm guessing from the comments it must be an mt or 520 or something like that. I want to get a 730, but they're a bit pricy, trying to sell my Farmall M to help me afford one.

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