65 final drives

[Brendon Warren]

or planetaries, whatever you want to call them. Was wondering how anyone else pressed them apart. I did one about a year ago and ended up building my own makeshift press with six by six cribbing, log chains, a couple tractor draw bars and a bottle jack. Looking at it now I can't for the life of me remember quite how I did it. I'm sure someone else has been in the same boat as the parts don't fit on a standard press. Thanks in advance.

 

[DavidP, South Wales]

For me its a trip to my local MF dealer for him to use his special MF hydraulic puller. It's not worth trying to do it yourself because of the amount of work in making the tooling.

DavidP, South Wales

 

[Brendon Warren]

That would be OK but my nearest dealer is over two hours away.This one is an early model with a bearing cone that rides inside the axle that is pressed on to the shaft. The last one I did had a flat needle bearing and a cup with needle bearings in it that was held on with a snap ring. Nobody around here seems to have a press big enough.

 

[willowbk]

i know this wont help you, but mine was very difficult. we used a service truck that had down riggers and we blocked up final drive and gave it all she had with down pressure and it finally popped. good luck

 

[jdamman]

I'm not much help either, but when I did mine I happened to have a 75 ton Dake press that we bought a couple months earlier. Made that project go from nasty to just challenging. Took quite a bit of force; was concerned about breaking the castings. As my dad said after we got it in the shop; "There, now we canbreak really big things fast..."