Ford 1210 tear down and repair

[Asymair95]

Thank you very much sld, I may take you up on that.

 

[Asymair95]

A few words about mice abatement. My tractor had a huge mouse nest in the hydro stat linkage bay which caused lots of damage. I'm not certain, but I believe they may have made their way into the hydro pump/clutch bay via the control rod opening in the first bay. I have a bore scope somewhere so I may take a look. If there is indeed a nest in there I will be looking at splitting the tractor, as there is no way to remove the nesting material without doing so.

Here is the first avenue the critters used to access the linkage bay. It is the opening for the friction control lever.



They can also access this same bay via the opening under the steering box at the base of the steering assy. There are openings around the entire circumference, here are two of them.





There is also an access point into the hyd pump/clutch bay via the linkage bay, and also the area on top where the lines enter the bay. Here is a pic.



Around the pipes they do provide a thick piece of rubber to close up the opening. Mine was flopping around loose on there though and wasn't preventing mice or water from getting in as evidence of the corrosion on top of the pump. Here is the rubber piece.



Bottom line. For everyone that owns one of these tractors or similar models I would take a hard look at your linkage bay and pump bay for rodent activity. I plan on using screening and silicone to seal up any holes I can find. I will use a small boot around the friction lever handle.

 

[Asymair95]

Was looking at the seat mounting plate and it appears to be off center kind of like a cub would be. Does anyone know why? I'm going to pull the plate and see if there is an adjustment for this, seems kind of odd to me. Here is a pic.



Also worked on repairing the broken fender mounts. I tried to drill and extract the old bolt, but it wasn't budging. Plan B was to drill and tap new threads. I will be welding a bolt onto the old mount and reusing them.





Break time is over...get back to work!

 

[Asymair95]

Got the seat figured out, I had to flip the mounting plate around 180 degrees, it now is centerline.

Lots of welding done today...horrible, chicken poop welding...lol.

Welded a bushing onto the seat pivot as it was wallowed out. Have some stacked washers on the other side welded in too.



There were a bunch of cracks in the hood, the front mounts were almost cracked off completely.



The front suitcase weight bracket was cracked.



The two front frame cracks welded up. I couldn't get a grinder in there to V the crack out first. Did the best I could with a little 110 volt mig welder with flux cored wire.



Also welded up the fender mount studs with the new bolt on the end. Should work just fine.

 

[sld]

Good work!

I changed the oil in mine today and gave it a good cleaning.

 

[Asymair95]

Spent all morning behind a wire wheel knocking off rust and loose paint.





Also used a bore scope to look inside the bell housing for nesting material. There was some in there, but not much. Not enough for me to worry about at this moment. Eventually I would like to split the tractor and address it though.

 

[Asymair95]

Installed my new hyd line today and got rid of the ridiculous hose under there.





Got my goodie box from Messicks today...it was like Christmas

 

[Asymair95]

Got a few filters changed today.

The filter from NH was a it smaller than the Napa one that was on there.



The cover for the hyd filter removed. There was an o-ring on the cover plate that I did not see in the parts manual. Anyone have a part number for me?



The old and new filter side by side. You can see all the trash in the old one.



The new filter has a rubber gasket attached to it. The old didn't have this. I checked inside the filter cavity to make sure it didn't fall off or something, but nothing was there.



Supposed to rain all day tomorrow, so don't know if I will get anything done.

 

[Asymair95]

Moving along...

Got the hyd strainer replaced today.



The cover removed. Was a bear to get it off.



The old and new together. There was a bit of trash in there, nothing crazy. Will be saving this filter as it was seriously expensive.



Replaced the o-ring on the cover.



Also replaced the hyd spin on filter.



Will have to fill both of these with hydro fluid before start up.

 

[Asymair95]

On to the brakes.

The pedals would not move when I first got the tractor. Tried greasing everything, but the zerks were missing. Installed some zerks and shot some grease in, but still were sticky.

So....we had to pull off the linkages and springs to remove the pedal to get at the shaft. There was lots of corrosion in there as well as old dried grease. Once I cleaned all that stuff off with Emory cloth it worked great. Some fresh grease, and we were back in business.





The brake cover coming off for inspection.



With the cover removed I was relieved to see the shoes were in like new condition. A few minutes scraping and a few shots of brake kleen were all that were needed.



The drum was removed for inspection and cleaning. The seal behind the drum was in good shape.



A new seal going on and all back together.



Next may be the water pump, will see how froggy I'm feeling.