1510 complete service and inspection

sld · Feb 10, 2018

Asymair95 said:
little bit done tonight after putting the kids to bed.

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Putting gear oil in the front diff and out drives. They had gear oil in them when I drained them, so I went back with the same. It took exactly four quarts.

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Got the gauge cluster bracket installed.

Next is some painting...

Sorry for the late reply Asymair95 but I've been away from TBN for quite awhile doing a remodel on my daughter's house. Great job and great thread!

I went thru the fluid change on my tractors and it was pretty important to use GL4 gear oil instead of GL5 on the front due to Ford's use of copper / bronze in the gear housings. You might want to research this a little. Maybe the 1510 is different?

Asymair95 · Mar 10, 2018

Thanks SLD, will look into that.

Just wanted to update this thread and close it out. $2500 later, the 1510 is running like new again. The repair shop pulled the pump and timing cover to check pump timing. They found a bent governor linkage and tried to bend it back, but ended up having to replace it. The injection pump also needed rebuild. Once it was back together they used a dyno to make all the adjustments on the pump.

I’m glad it is fixed, but upset I let myself get taken advantage of like that. This was one of those impulse buys I should have walked away from. I’m now 10k into this tractor and would never be able to recover it if I had to sell for some reason. It was an expensive lesson to learn, buyer beware.

skills4lou · Mar 12, 2018

Hey man, glad you finally got it figured out. Sucks to have to spend that much, but you should have a decent tractor that will only need fuel, oil and filters for a long time. Post up a few pics of it working!