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Re: (ET) Steering gear tightness
I did something similiar. I found that after removing the rivets that
the hole was just about right for a tap (8-32 maybe - I forget). Anyway
I tapped the holes and use a nice SS large-head allen wrench type
machine screw (McMaster). Works well.
- SteveS
Kleinbrahm, Bob wrote:
I stumbled upon something that I haven't heard mentioned on the list
before. I had been trying to tighten up my sloppy steering gear meshing
on my stripped down E-20 tractor. Followed all the recomedations on the
list, including grinding down the base of steering shaft pinion gear
holder. Placing extra shims on fan gear shaft, etc. Non of these were
giving me much satisfaction when turning the wheel with the potential
for slop still being there. I was doing all this with the front side
covers off of the tractor as I am in the process of rebuilding it after
a frame weld job. I took this opportuinity to replace the rivots that
hold the side panels on with rivot/nuts. Rivot/nuts are very
interesting in that they require you to drill out the original rivots
from the tractor and then replace them with the 2 piece rivot/nut
assembly. Basically you use a special tool which compresses the
rivot/nut assembly in the new drilled out hole. This allows you to use
regular screw type bolts to attach panels to the tractor. It makes it
easy to remove components like the side panels and fenders, etc and then
simply screw them back on. Anyway, in the process of putting the panels
back on I noticed that you really had to pull the front of the tractor
into the main upright housing of tractor to get the rivot/nut holes to
align properly. This pulling together of the steering housing and the
front of the tractor has tightened up the gears so much that I ended up
removing the shim from the fan gear assembly.
I would guess that some of you have front panels that the rivots have
deteriated to the point that they are no longer pulling the front and
middle of tractor tightly together. I obtained my rivot/nut kit from
J.C. Whitney catalog and it has been a great tool for working on these
great tractors.
Bob Kleinbrahm