This is a 1952 Farmall Cub with 42" Woods mower being brought home on my
trailer early one Sunday morning in the Fall of 1999. While it looks pretty
good from a distance, it has a number of serious problems. The hydraulic pump
was pushing all of the fluid into the oil pan, there is a "knock" in the
engine, and it is only running on 3 out of 4 cylinders. The rear tires are
filled with calcium chloride solution for additional traction, and one of
them has a bad valve while the other's bead is coming away from the rim.
I removed the pump and sent the input shaft out for work to correct
a groove worn in the shaft from a dried out "O" ring. The tires appear to
be original and are badly dried out; the tires and tubes will need to be
replaced, and the rims will have to be repaired where the corrosive calcium
solution has caused damage.
Here is an image of it fixed up, after repairing all of the all of the
above, including replacing the piston rings and one headlight lens and straightening
out the bent grille and tie rods. The knocking in the engine seems to have
been caused by very badly adjusted valves and is now gone.
As events have transpired, this tractor has been sold to a man who got
into vegetable farming. I removed the mower and installed the Fast Hitch unit
and sold the farming implements - cultivator, plow, seeder, rear blade, fertilizer
unit, and flail mower - that were designed just for the Fast Hitch. These
all came from the 1955 Cub.
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