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I appreciate that, but I'm just not seeing enough oil and dirt build-up to think the amount of oil that I'm replacing is coming from the...

Not exactly a true flow meter, but if you use the "hose into a bucket" method with some sort of an orifice (or a nearly closed valve)...

Ok so it's flow under pressure that is important and so the open line into a bucket is of limited use. I did pick up a bunch of hose...

That is a very old FWD axle and many parts are obsolete. You might try a tractor wrecking yard and look for Case 1594, 1690, Ford 455...

@Harry in Ky as far as the hose goes, you are right, it probably would work fine. If you look at the hoses where they go into the case...

I've had great luck with tire plugs as well. Carry a kit in toolbox that are the T handle type. Makes it much easier to push reamer and...

I bought a tire plug kit about 15 yrs ago. Few things have served me so well. Back then I was supervising construction. A lot of...

Navel jelly, petroleum jelly? Would be fine. Or, use the grease you are going to use in the gearcase

I always sand the rust and foreign material off of shafts before reassembling. Usually I sand as much of the shaft as I can before...

R3s are turf/diamond tred, R4 is industrial flat bar type tred similar to what you have in the R1 ag tred, but with shallower and wider...

Rough spots are what is stopping it and sanding the shaft would be fine. Smoothing it out is what you want. Any kind of lubricant would...

That picture reminded me of a story my dad told about being on the farm in WW2 with gas being rationed. TOur cousin had a Model T and he...

Does this count?

For decades a gardener had a Corvair truck with the side ramp… it was a dream to load with built in ramp and he probably ran it for 39...

Bruce