New to me MF135

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here's a pic of Mr Ferguson cleaned up a little. My fuel sediment bowl is leaking pretty badly at the shutoff valve. Really not impressed with how these work. I'll try to repack the valve this week although I've never had much luck with packing doing anything. I'm concerned the seat is bad too as the packing shouldn't see fuel if it's shut off.

Figured out why my tach isn't working. It's nut screwed into the generator. I spun it by hand and it seemed to spin fine so I'll try that later too.

I'd forgotten how bad gasoline smell can be on your hands. I've gotten spoiled by working on cars that don't leak gasoline!

Thanks. I've been looking at that manual already.

I got the wheel bearing apart and spindle dropped out easy enough. Without mik'ing the spindle shaft OD I don't know for certain but i didn't feel any appreciable wear. I went to remove the brass bushings but haven't been able to. I used a pilot bearing puller with slide hammer but just couldn't get them to budge. Time to clean up for the day.

Any tips for pulling these bushings? There isn't a lot of material there. The service manual recommends using MF 263 Bush Remover and the MF 263-1 adapter. I'll spend a little time on the internet looking for how to rig something up. I was surprised my pilot bearing puller wouldn't get it. This is the unit I have. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076CGD2KX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

As the Ferg sits right now.

The front end is looking kind of bare.

I took the outer axle ends off because I secured someone to press out the bushings, install new, and then bore them to size.

I need some tie-rod ends on the right side and plenty more bolts. All of the ones on the axle had to be beaten out and the threads are pretty rough now. Looks like one had been involved in a bit of an accident as the one holding the radius arm was partially sheared!

The radius rods mount onto the frame of the tractor seem a little worn. It doesn't look like there is any sort of bushing in there. Guess I'll just deal with it.

I'm in this far so I may just pull the axle pin too. I've drained the coolant because it was pretty nasty looking. Seems like I'm most of the way through getting the axle pin out so...

Picture of what it looks like right now.

The rods are loose in the sockets is what I was trying to say. It doesn't look like there is any sort of shim or bushing but I have seem some tales online of people wedging pennies in there. I will just see how the tractor drives before I replace these. They are easy to change out later along with the tierod ends. The wheel bearing and spindle stuff are pretty involved so I'd rather knock those out sooner rather than later.

The local Rural King sells Grade 8 and Grade 8 fasteners by the pound and has plenty to choose from. I also have a Fastenal in town but they're pricey. But they can get oddball stuff.

Thankfully these have all been bolt and nut connections -- no blind holes to deal with yet! Also I was surprised I could get both draincocks to work. Coolant came out muddy from the block and very faint green from the radiator. I'll go ahead and fill it back up with clean coolant for now. I will consider flushing it out when the tractor isn't in the garage. I don't want to run the engine inside.

Well I should have just looked at the parts book. It comes with the hub. So i will replace them.