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That just left the wheel shaft, bearings and seal. The housing was extremely muddy inside but cleaned up alright, none of the gearwheels had more than surface rust which brushed off easy.

Reassembled with RTV gunk and then installed back on the tractor. That's the right side completely rebuilt.

No more play, everything is firm and tight and hopefully not leaking, but I'll find out about that when I fill it.

Alas, the left side still needs doing and I'm out of light and time and spoons for today.

There I've done the wheel shaft already but the other parts also need doing as the bearings will be just as bad. At least I know how to get the vertical shaft out now :)

#DIY #Tractor #Repair #Iseki #Mechanic #Homestead #Mud #Rust

Vertical shaft didn't wanna come out because the drawing I have is different from the tractor. In the end I had to pry off a weird bottom cap and found two circlips inside, while the drawing had one on top that I don't have.

After that the shaft came out, I replaced the bottom bearing, a very worn thrust bearing and the steering seal.

Quite a bit of gunk in here to clean. And the bearings were due.

#DIY #Tractor #Repair #Iseki #Mechanic #Circlip #Bearing #Homestead

Pried off the old cassette seals with some effort.

Then extracted the broken bolt with a set of left-handed drill bits, which I've had mixed success with in extremely salt-water rusted boat stuff, but this time they worked a charm.

Probably also because it was steel in steel, not steel bolts in cast aluminium with salt water corrosion, which is absolutely horrible.

New seal sleeve on the steering, new bearings on the bevel gears and onto the next part, the vertical shaft.

#Tractor #Repair #DIY #Iseki #Mechanic #Homestead #Bearing #Rebuild

Deliveries arrived. This is turning into a full front axle rebuild.

Things came apart well but I found a broken bolt that had just been glued in with RTV sealant, thanks for that Litechnija! :old_man_yells_at:

The differential up top looked ok but some crud needed cleaning out.

Then a lot of removing rusty bearings. The gears are fine and cleaned up ok.

This time I ordered all the bearings so I should have everything for this job.

#Tractor #Repair #DIY #Iseki #Axle #Mechanic #Homestead

More beans.

#Garden #Harvest #Beans #Food #Homestead

We're trying something new this year on our #homestead If you are have some food storage tips, let us know! And take our poll on our #Youtube channel! It will help us decide how to access our crawlspace. www https://youtube.com/watch?v=TKXLF_W_ZCc #diy #video #offgrid

Painted the waterline on the house. Err, soil line I mean. I hope.

Also very smug about coming up with the best way yet to remove masking tape. Simply reel onto cardboard as it comes off. No touching sticky stuff that way.

#Foundation #Renovation #Bitumen #Paint #Masking #Tape #DIY #Homestead #LogHouse