Loving this project. Went back and binge-watched all the old episodes. Did I hear him say recently the views were down on this series and he was again going to start something else before finishing this prototype project?
Your knowledge of these farm machines is not stuck on only Cat track tractors. The MM equiptment is another of your interests and you should share it with the world. However there are so many folks who feel that thrre is only one thing that has any relevance in the world. You will never make these people happy. So keep on being you. Other people appreciate it.
It’s a shallow mind that only likes one kind of tractor! I came for X231, stayed for 5J1113, and I’m again enthralled with the prototype engineering of X231. More please!!! Thanks for all your efforts sir.
Everyone has their favorites. And, given the limited time in the day, we pick what fits into that day. I know that on some of my favorite channels, there are projects I won't watch because I can't go there (lots of welding for example), so I pick and choose to watch projects that are closer to my capabilities. However, I do like heavy equipment, so I stick around for this channel's material, whatever the project.
Desmond Tutu once said, 'There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time." Christine is definitely your elephant, and you have to chew hard to finish each bite. I know there's still more work in front of you, but great job on reaching this milestone. She's come a long way from the derelict tractor you and Senior drug home.
As someone who makes a living working on things and crafting parts that no longer exist, I can say you are a genius at making things happen. These videos are pure gold!! Thanks for posting!
It is such a pleasure to listen to you and enjoy your enthusiasm and joy at completion of these engineering tasks. Greetings from a 68yr old from Scotland!
Funny thing is that watching you set up that line bore jig is what probably got me hooked on your channel. Then, all of a sudden you were rebuilding this D2 that you dragged home. 🙂 Congrats!
I know you said in a previous video your time on X231 was limited and you would be moving on other more important projects. I've been with you from the start on this project and waited for you to return. I believe the most difficult work is behind you, your on a role hope you make one last push and make it across the finish line. I really enjoy positive attitude no matter how bad things look.
Excellent video it looks really nice with the transmission and rear end housing bolted back together. The hollow staking pin is a very good idea to keep the bearing retainer from spinning and causing problems again. Them pto clutch linkage straps and dogs are sort of a Minneapolis Moline weak spot my G900 diesel has gave me problems with them things over the years
Really excited and relieved for you that the line boring worked out well. It seems like a huge milestone and a huge relief to know that you got it right the first time. One step at a time. I am really enjoying this build. It doesn't matter what the content is to me. The way you present it and the thought you put into everything makes it so enjoyable to watch. Thank you for all of the hard work behind the scenes you put into these episodes. Don't let the grumpy old men get to you too much. There are still a TON of people who enjoy all of the content you put out. You can't please everyone, but you do please a bunch of people!
Thanks for keeping it going. Small bites is perfectly fine as it keeps us all engaged as to what a prototype rebuild really is. Hard, intricate, technical work involved with this breaking down what the engineers were thinking of the time. Great work.
What a relief knowing the line boring all worked out, I’m glad you’ve formulated a plan to get as much of the prototype parts as you can. Also great idea to have something retain that sleeve from moving again. One more step closer man!
I have to say that I enjoy all that you put on your channel. We don't have snow where I live in Australia. We have different weather conditions here with the rainy season generally starting some time in January and finishing sometime in March. Some times we don't get a rainy season. We sometimes get cyclones which bring a lot of rain and damaging winds but generally these are about every 6 or 7 years. It is good to see what other people have to deal with weather wise. I am 73 years old and now retired. I spent all of my working life in road construction both residential subdivisions and highway construction. When I started work in 1968 there was not much new construction plant available. This changed in the mid 1970s when the old plant seemed to vanish. I enjoy watching the restoration of old machinery and see some similar to that which used to be common when I started work. Caterpillar D4 and D6 size tractors were considered big tractors then and D8 and D9 bulldozers were considered exotic in the area where I worked. They became common later on. Agricultural tractors were used to pull rollers to compact embankments and gravel pavements. It is interesting to see this old equipment brought back to life and particularly when it is rare. I would like to be able to do this sort of work but living in town, I don't have the room or facilities to do it. The next best thing to do is to watch someone like yourself do it. I learn something with most episodes. Keep up the good work.
I remember the episode of the line boring job just like it was yesterday! That may have been how I found your channel. Awesome work. You even make it look so easy how you slide the two half’s together.
Seeing those two halves of the transmission together at last is a beautiful thing! So glad that the line bore worked out just right, and I really like the plan to pin the bearing carrier in the case as well.
I would suspect that the fourth gear rail had been an issue jamming in the forward position so they drilled the hole out so if it happened again they could use a punch and a hammer to free the rail.
I think someone got a little too happy with the drill and just punched all the way through. Then they said, "It doesn't matter, it's just a prototype."
Another super episode Toby ,Your bringing History back to life for the rest of us and correcting a lot of the flaws in the original design with your Skills as a machinist .
It was a good day then, the sun was shining, spring is right around the corner, the line boring job worked like you hoped and the shaft doesn't bind. A good day indeed !!
Post-prototype, third-hand consumer modifications? Find an M-M hat and call yourself a post-production prototype engineer. Keep up the good work. It's all greatly appreciated by those who understand and many willing to learn.
Oh Toby! I'll join the 'line boring club' membership as well. It was one of the earliest episodes I saw on your wonderful channel. I was gobsmacked (old English expression!) with what you did. Really inventive machining. And now, so much later, it comes in useful in ways not thought of at the time. Serendipity. We all need a bit of that now and again. You've made me and many others smile. Cheers.
This is a outstanding project! Like Bob Crone, it prompted me to revisit the earlier postings to remind me of the incredible skill and devotion to accuracy that Squatch always brings to the art of antique tractor restoration. Can't wait for the next episode!
Squatch 253 is an original one-of folks. Lots of channels show repair and redo of mass produced equipment and machinery. And that's cool. But this is the first and only one I've found that rebuilds a prototype.
I started watching you when you started working on this project. And then you started on the crawler project and I was hooked so glad you back on the prototype moline I've enjoyed watching you go through all the troublesome problems. Really cool how you overcome the issues with these prototype tractors keep up the content
Thank you , thank you so much for continuing your seamingley endless journey to restore X 231! As you have heard many times before , this is what brought me to your channel as I collect all things MM. Although I truly did enjoy watching the Cat D2 , Minnie's are my true passion. Keep up the good work and keep pressing on, the reward is in sight!
Awesome work Squatch. I spotted those crescent wrenches on top of the casing early on. I was kinda hoping you'd use them on camera to annoy Luke! LOL!😂 Seeya next time!🤠
You should be a restoration specialist for historical restorations, projects for equipment manufacturers. I'm surprised there isnt 5 million subscribers also.
One of my favorite parts of this project is watching your shop fab handyness making the askew nature of the "X" ness come tgether with simple but very effective applications like grinding the bolt next to the clutch assembly to a clean tolerance and the same with the plate under the gasket has a clean fitment and the line bore on the shaft. I replay it not because I will ever do any of this but so I can catch the thinking you employ. I gotta say, watching you move through the processes is almost therapeutic.😊 See ya on the next one.👍🏼
Yea. You always do good work. One day it will be running and driving. I was going to suggest forgetting about the pto since it will be just a parade queen. But I like to use my antique stuff not for everyday stuff but there is something very satisfying doing things the way my father or grandfather did.
Couldn't you just buy a new tractor? Jk of course lol. Thousands of years ago I'm pretty sure it was videos of x231 that popped into my suggestions and thus finding you. Seeing it go back together is so awesome 👍
Now we are truly at the most tedious and threated part of X231. I'm actually hyped to see what else you came up with. As for the clearance issues with the X231 bolts. Let me say this as a fact. On a Belarus 500 tractor and the later models have all the certain bolt have shrunken/resized heads shrunk so they would fit into very tight and inaccessible corners. They maintain there standard metric threads (like M14x1.5) but the head is shrunk significantly . So one more reason to save up old hardware cause when your installing hydraulics and the bellhousings. Than without the resized head bolts you will not be able to mount a larger size head bolt into the existing threads. New Soviet hard wear is still available but they are not easy to find. The resized head bolts only came with the tractor so the only way getting them seems to be from a parts donor.
This is easily one of the most addictive series to watch on UA-cam. Every aspect of what, how and why Squatch is doing what he does keeps me coming back for more with each episode that posts. I've been going back in the series just to catch up. My Bebita Wife thinks I've got a couple screws loose. I'd say it's more like a box of screws loose at this point.
Glad to see the progress shaft and bearing repair was a success I went back in the Playlist and watched the videos of the lineboring and milling repairs Very impressive work Love the way you get things done.
I cant believe it's been almost 6 years sense I began watching your channel. I must say one of the very few channels I've seen every video put out . With the exception of Samson boat co. Or tally ho as some may say keep up the excellent work
Absolutely fabulous! Been with you from the beginning and remember that line bore... Man! So much time has passed and yet you make it look easy! You sir are a true superstar, master mechanic, and maniacal machinist, as far as I am concerned! The fact you can t-up work from 5 years ago and it all meshes is a testament to your patented eye twitches for details! No one can take that from you sir! I would behoove any of your armchair warrior/ protagonists / ne sayers/ daft commenters to do a job like that and have it all line up even after a 5-year idling with several BIG projects in between! SERIOUSLY you are a true mechanical superstar! Even more impressive while retaining X231 originality, you are still inventing and fixing all in the same stroke! Dare I say even improving on some of their bodging. A true sign of your adept ability and knowledge! Way to go man!
Great to see that shaft slip into place and turn freely - of course we knew it would (but there's always that 'what if?' in the back of your mind - did you forget something?) So satisfying to see Christine take some shape, roll on the next episode - thanks for taking us along for the ride, Toby!
Live power definitely presented many challenges. I guess that's why it took years for IH Farmalls and other brands to get that feature. I would love my Farmall H to have live power and hydraulics. Thanks for another great video!
I love the X231 stuff but understand it's not everyone's thing is it is really technical and maybe some people just can't get it but it is fun to watch. Great job on the line boring and I said it last video and I say it again, I can't believe it's been that long. Wow
As per Murdock in the A-team “ Love it when a plan comes together”! That’s some nice thinking far ahead with the coupler, and I knew that the line boring would turn out because you thought it all out before, as you were dismantling and seeing the damage first hand. Nicely done sir, nicely done.
You're making me look bad man. Whoever said where there's a will there's a way had you in mind when they said it. My wife watches with me and she is so impressed with you that I'm starting to get a little jealous. Keep up the good work Toby!
Great job! I watched the first part of this series this winter recovering from spine surgery, now I'm enjoying the rest of the rebuild keep up the good work. John not Tamara.
I’m sure you receive a generous amount of Thank You. Be an older MM user before I was 7 years old. Still have 4 one is a Z I used plowing with 2. 14 Co-op plow. Trip type. Planted corn and beans with a mounted 4 row MM planter. Thank You for all the time and money to save our MM technically 😊😊😊
Thanks for another great update, that line bore job was better than spot on when you consider it was done in a home workshop. I've seen more modern JD tractors chew pto shaft bearings/bushings out of housings like this, and several local professional full time machine shops won't touch repairing them. The tractors ended up scrapped because either the casting was obsolete, and used/ new if available plus the work fitting it was way more money than the tractor was worth when other problems were found and fixed. Take care
This project turning out to be just as informative an interesting as 5J was 👍 that drive shaft must have been made of really good steel to cope with the torque forces going through it with little support along its length 🤔👍
Got the notie that a new episode starts just a few minutes when i went in the workshop, go back an watch the major assembly :D Great I think, we didnt see much Farmall stuff, till new progress on x231 was ready for the show :)
Just finished watching this saga from the begining. I for one would be interested in the details surrounding your thought process during your consideration of srategies and methods for repair, replacement, sourcing parts; in short the backstory required in order to make progress. Great content and associated narritive!
I am stunned its finally looking like you have got there. A story out of legend in getting so much that was so wrong to work. So many talents and skills that would have taken a dozen people to do and not all 12 could be there to do it. One Squatch was and is. You Rock(ford)
been loving the videos. i've done a couple restorations myself but no where near as in depth as your doing. its very interesting to see some of the quirks of the prototype and things they tried but later decided there was a better way of doing it. keep up the good work mate. and hello from Australia
Loving this project. Went back and binge-watched all the old episodes.
Did I hear him say recently the views were down on this series and he was again going to start something else before finishing this prototype project?
Your knowledge of these farm machines is not stuck on only Cat track tractors. The MM equiptment is another of your interests and you should share it with the world. However there are so many folks who feel that thrre is only one thing that has any relevance in the world. You will never make these people happy. So keep on being you. Other people appreciate it.
It’s a shallow mind that only likes one kind of tractor! I came for X231, stayed for 5J1113, and I’m again enthralled with the prototype engineering of X231. More please!!! Thanks for all your efforts sir.
@@squatch253 Well I don't get it. I'm as invested as ever in this project. I guess it is what it is.
@@brettphillips8650 Shallow mind. Well said!
Everyone has their favorites. And, given the limited time in the day, we pick what fits into that day. I know that on some of my favorite channels, there are projects I won't watch because I can't go there (lots of welding for example), so I pick and choose to watch projects that are closer to my capabilities. However, I do like heavy equipment, so I stick around for this channel's material, whatever the project.
Desmond Tutu once said, 'There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time." Christine is definitely your elephant, and you have to chew hard to finish each bite. I know there's still more work in front of you, but great job on reaching this milestone. She's come a long way from the derelict tractor you and Senior drug home.
Hi Squatch, I just wanted to let you know I've been enjoying this series. Lots of headaches but it's coming together beautifully.
It’s great to see the line bore job come into play again. What an amazing episode that was!
As someone who makes a living working on things and crafting parts that no longer exist, I can say you are a genius at making things happen. These videos are pure gold!! Thanks for posting!
It is such a pleasure to listen to you and enjoy your enthusiasm and joy at completion of these engineering tasks. Greetings from a 68yr old from Scotland!
Damn I thought I was the only 68 year old from 🏴 watching 🙄😅
What! There's two of you!
There may be more lurking 🤔😁
Funny thing is that watching you set up that line bore jig is what probably got me hooked on your channel. Then, all of a sudden you were rebuilding this D2 that you dragged home. 🙂 Congrats!
I know you said in a previous video your time on X231 was limited and you would be moving on other more important projects. I've been with you from the start on this project and waited for you to return. I believe the most difficult work is behind you, your on a role hope you make one last push and make it across the finish line. I really enjoy positive attitude no matter how bad things look.
Heck of a deal, buddy. Glad to see it bolted together, and also to see it in a state where the rear is nearly DONE. Little pieces create big pieces!
Exciting to see the chassis components going together...a new found motivation...that tractor is so amazing...Great job Toby!
Excellent video it looks really nice with the transmission and rear end housing bolted back together. The hollow staking pin is a very good idea to keep the bearing retainer from spinning and causing problems again. Them pto clutch linkage straps and dogs are sort of a Minneapolis Moline weak spot my G900 diesel has gave me problems with them things over the years
Really excited and relieved for you that the line boring worked out well. It seems like a huge milestone and a huge relief to know that you got it right the first time. One step at a time. I am really enjoying this build. It doesn't matter what the content is to me. The way you present it and the thought you put into everything makes it so enjoyable to watch. Thank you for all of the hard work behind the scenes you put into these episodes. Don't let the grumpy old men get to you too much. There are still a TON of people who enjoy all of the content you put out. You can't please everyone, but you do please a bunch of people!
Based on what I have seen with the D2 and X231, you must have been one hell of a mechanic at the Ford garage.
Thanks for keeping it going. Small bites is perfectly fine as it keeps us all engaged as to what a prototype rebuild really is. Hard, intricate, technical work involved with this breaking down what the engineers were thinking of the time. Great work.
What a relief knowing the line boring all worked out, I’m glad you’ve formulated a plan to get as much of the prototype parts as you can. Also great idea to have something retain that sleeve from moving again. One more step closer man!
I have to say that I enjoy all that you put on your channel. We don't have snow where I live in Australia. We have different weather conditions here with the rainy season generally starting some time in January and finishing sometime in March. Some times we don't get a rainy season. We sometimes get cyclones which bring a lot of rain and damaging winds but generally these are about every 6 or 7 years. It is good to see what other people have to deal with weather wise. I am 73 years old and now retired. I spent all of my working life in road construction both residential subdivisions and highway construction. When I started work in 1968 there was not much new construction plant available. This changed in the mid 1970s when the old plant seemed to vanish. I enjoy watching the restoration of old machinery and see some similar to that which used to be common when I started work. Caterpillar D4 and D6 size tractors were considered big tractors then and D8 and D9 bulldozers were considered exotic in the area where I worked. They became common later on. Agricultural tractors were used to pull rollers to compact embankments and gravel pavements. It is interesting to see this old equipment brought back to life and particularly when it is rare. I would like to be able to do this sort of work but living in town, I don't have the room or facilities to do it. The next best thing to do is to watch someone like yourself do it. I learn something with most episodes. Keep up the good work.
I remember the episode of the line boring job just like it was yesterday! That may have been how I found your channel. Awesome work. You even make it look so easy how you slide the two half’s together.
You can probably attribute some of how easy that looked to some good editing. 😃
Seeing those two halves of the transmission together at last is a beautiful thing! So glad that the line bore worked out just right, and I really like the plan to pin the bearing carrier in the case as well.
I would suspect that the fourth gear rail had been an issue jamming in the forward position so they drilled the hole out so if it happened again they could use a punch and a hammer to free the rail.
I think someone got a little too happy with the drill and just punched all the way through. Then they said, "It doesn't matter, it's just a prototype."
Wow, starting to come together! Great to see your efforts panned out and the shaft fits so nicely!
Another super episode Toby ,Your bringing History back to life for the rest of us and correcting a lot of the flaws in the original design with your Skills as a machinist .
I do not believe that you "ran out of talent for the day". Too funny. Wonderful Video
At 15:00 I see the front cover is still lacking any rust proofing
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😂😅! Fold over locks bustin’ chops! What are friends for!
It was a good day then, the sun was shining, spring is right around the corner, the line boring job worked like you hoped and the shaft doesn't bind. A good day indeed !!
Post-prototype, third-hand consumer modifications? Find an M-M hat and call yourself a post-production prototype engineer. Keep up the good work. It's all greatly appreciated by those who understand and many willing to learn.
Oh Toby! I'll join the 'line boring club' membership as well. It was one of the earliest episodes I saw on your wonderful channel. I was gobsmacked (old English expression!) with what you did. Really inventive machining. And now, so much later, it comes in useful in ways not thought of at the time. Serendipity. We all need a bit of that now and again. You've made me and many others smile. Cheers.
This is a outstanding project! Like Bob Crone, it prompted me to revisit the earlier postings to remind me of the incredible skill and devotion to accuracy that Squatch always brings to the art of antique tractor restoration. Can't wait for the next episode!
This is awesome content. I'm gutted for you that people aren't watching it as much as the CAT stuff. They're missing out!
Thanks Toby! Doesn’t seem like a lot done but knowing it all lined up is a big step that the line bore was good. Enjoying the process in every episode
My husband said to tell you and Senior how much he enjoys your videos and what great job you do.
Thank you and tell him that Senior and I both appreciate the kind words! :-)
Happy you’re continuing with this! Love the in depth detail of every episode
Another great video Squatch! It's nice to see things are working out for you. Cheers until the next video.
I know you felt a huge relief when that stuff went back together! A job well done!
Squatch 253 is an original one-of folks. Lots of channels show repair and redo of mass produced equipment and machinery. And that's cool. But this is the first and only one I've found that rebuilds a prototype.
I started watching you when you started working on this project. And then you started on the crawler project and I was hooked so glad you back on the prototype moline I've enjoyed watching you go through all the troublesome problems. Really cool how you overcome the issues with these prototype tractors keep up the content
So happy to see this at least getting to the point where it's buttoned up. So many projects never get put back together
Thank you , thank you so much for continuing your seamingley endless journey to restore X 231! As you have heard many times before , this is what brought me to your channel as I collect all things MM. Although I truly did enjoy watching the Cat D2 , Minnie's are my true passion. Keep up the good work and keep pressing on, the reward is in sight!
Awesome work Squatch. I spotted those crescent wrenches on top of the casing early on. I was kinda hoping you'd use them on camera to annoy Luke! LOL!😂 Seeya next time!🤠
You should be a restoration specialist for historical restorations, projects for equipment manufacturers. I'm surprised there isnt 5 million subscribers also.
African Chief: "How to eat an elephant? One bite at a time." 😁
One of my favorite parts of this project is watching your shop fab handyness making the askew nature of the "X" ness come tgether with simple but very effective applications like grinding the bolt next to the clutch assembly to a clean tolerance and the same with the plate under the gasket has a clean fitment and the line bore on the shaft. I replay it not because I will ever do any of this but so I can catch the thinking you employ. I gotta say, watching you move through the processes is almost therapeutic.😊
See ya on the next one.👍🏼
Enjoying this every bit as much as the Cat stuff. Thanks
So glad to see another episode on x231. I was concerned it may get dusty again. Great content Toby! Thank you for your efforts.
I like your work on X231 I enjoy the show. Thank you. Actually I like all your rebuild shows.
This is a favorite channel of mine and I love this project. The compare and contrast is fantastic 😊
Yea. You always do good work.
One day it will be running and driving.
I was going to suggest forgetting about the pto since it will be just a parade queen.
But I like to use my antique stuff not for everyday stuff but there is something very satisfying doing things the way my father or grandfather did.
Outside filming for us, for which i am grateful, i hope you had fun doing this!!! It's the most important thing. Awesome work!
Couldn't you just buy a new tractor?
Jk of course lol. Thousands of years ago I'm pretty sure it was videos of x231 that popped into my suggestions and thus finding you. Seeing it go back together is so awesome 👍
Now we are truly at the most tedious and threated part of X231. I'm actually hyped to see what else you came up with. As for the clearance issues with the X231 bolts. Let me say this as a fact. On a Belarus 500 tractor and the later models have all the certain bolt have shrunken/resized heads shrunk so they would fit into very tight and inaccessible corners. They maintain there standard metric threads (like M14x1.5) but the head is shrunk significantly . So one more reason to save up old hardware cause when your installing hydraulics and the bellhousings. Than without the resized head bolts you will not be able to mount a larger size head bolt into the existing threads. New Soviet hard wear is still available but they are not easy to find. The resized head bolts only came with the tractor so the only way getting them seems to be from a parts donor.
This is easily one of the most addictive series to watch on UA-cam.
Every aspect of what, how and why Squatch is doing what he does keeps me coming back for more with each episode that posts.
I've been going back in the series just to catch up.
My Bebita Wife thinks I've got a couple screws loose.
I'd say it's more like a box of screws loose at this point.
Line boreing ok, shaft and bearings fit ok, episodes are pure gold. A pleasure to watch.
Glad to see the progress shaft and bearing repair was a success
I went back in the Playlist and watched the videos of the lineboring and milling repairs
Very impressive work
Love the way you get things done.
One word: Sweet! It's as if you've turned a major corner in the highway, nothing but open roads ahead. Great work!
What a shame people are so shallow that they quit because of what you consider “boring” material. I love this stuff. Good luck friend.
Oh Toby!! I remember thinking when you put that bottom plate on there that I hope it doesn't turn around and bite him. Well, it did!!!!
I cant believe it's been almost 6 years sense I began watching your channel. I must say one of the very few channels I've seen every video put out . With the exception of Samson boat co. Or tally ho as some may say keep up the excellent work
Absolutely fabulous! Been with you from the beginning and remember that line bore... Man! So much time has passed and yet you make it look easy! You sir are a true superstar, master mechanic, and maniacal machinist, as far as I am concerned! The fact you can t-up work from 5 years ago and it all meshes is a testament to your patented eye twitches for details! No one can take that from you sir! I would behoove any of your armchair warrior/ protagonists / ne sayers/ daft commenters to do a job like that and have it all line up even after a 5-year idling with several BIG projects in between! SERIOUSLY you are a true mechanical superstar! Even more impressive while retaining X231 originality, you are still inventing and fixing all in the same stroke! Dare I say even improving on some of their bodging. A true sign of your adept ability and knowledge! Way to go man!
Your knowledge, and attention to detail are amazing. Looks like you are definitely the right man for this project.
I am really enjoying this. The shorter videos may be an effort to keep views up but I really enjoy them.
Great to see that shaft slip into place and turn freely - of course we knew it would (but there's always that 'what if?' in the back of your mind - did you forget something?) So satisfying to see Christine take some shape, roll on the next episode - thanks for taking us along for the ride, Toby!
Live power definitely presented many challenges. I guess that's why it took years for IH Farmalls and other brands to get that feature. I would love my Farmall H to have live power and hydraulics.
Thanks for another great video!
Lucky and good! A winning combination!!
I love the X231 stuff but understand it's not everyone's thing is it is really technical and maybe some people just can't get it but it is fun to watch. Great job on the line boring and I said it last video and I say it again, I can't believe it's been that long. Wow
Fantastic solution that you came up with for ensuring the sleeve does not rotate in the bore.
Glad the shaft fit. The inside of the case sure looks good with the red paint.
That raw iron looks so damn good!
That's some great work Toby!
As per Murdock in the A-team “ Love it when a plan comes together”! That’s some nice thinking far ahead with the coupler, and I knew that the line boring would turn out because you thought it all out before, as you were dismantling and seeing the damage first hand. Nicely done sir, nicely done.
You're making me look bad man. Whoever said where there's a will there's a way had you in mind when they said it. My wife watches with me and she is so impressed with you that I'm starting to get a little jealous. Keep up the good work Toby!
Nice solutions for all the issues. It's starting to look like a tractor as the chunks come together, keep it up!
Great job! I watched the first part of this series this winter recovering from spine surgery, now I'm enjoying the rest of the rebuild keep up the good work. John not Tamara.
Don't let the negative comments get to you. I have enjoyed every episode of this prototype.
Progress being made on every video. Nice to see the line bore was a huge sucess.
Beautiful assembly/work jig you constructed Squatch Nice project here John
Please dont take a break from this series, I love seeing the progress! Favorite UA-cam channel, better than cable TV!
I’m sure you receive a generous amount of Thank You. Be an older MM user before I was 7 years old. Still have 4 one is a Z I used plowing with 2. 14 Co-op plow. Trip type. Planted corn and beans with a mounted 4 row MM planter. Thank You for all the time and money to save our MM technically 😊😊😊
Thanks for another great update, that line bore job was better than spot on when you consider it was done in a home workshop. I've seen more modern JD tractors chew pto shaft bearings/bushings out of housings like this, and several local professional full time machine shops won't touch repairing them. The tractors ended up scrapped because either the casting was obsolete, and used/ new if available plus the work fitting it was way more money than the tractor was worth when other problems were found and fixed. Take care
Fantastic! A lot of work ahead though. Thanks for sharing!
Slow and steady wins the race. I'm in. Can't wait for the next installment.
This project turning out to be just as informative an interesting as 5J was 👍 that drive shaft must have been made of really good steel to cope with the torque forces going through it with little support along its length 🤔👍
Got the notie that a new episode starts just a few minutes when i went in the workshop, go back an watch the major assembly :D Great I think, we didnt see much Farmall stuff, till new progress on x231 was ready for the show :)
Just finished watching this saga from the begining. I for one would be interested in the details surrounding your thought process during your consideration of srategies and methods for repair, replacement, sourcing parts; in short the backstory required in order to make progress. Great content and associated narritive!
Really nice to see that fall into place. The bearing oil path solution was brilliant! I suspect that was also years of experience showing you the way.
good to see everything is coming together
Awesome job. Glad the line board worked out. Looking forward to the next episode.
I see, some D2 pony motor main bearing bore repair knowledge coming into play here for the rear live power bearing sleeve. I like it!
Thanks for the episode. It is more clear how the live power fit in the transmission !
Wow, hard enough with production figment. Great job!
Congrats on this step in the restoration! Great job!
I am stunned its finally looking like you have got there. A story out of legend in getting so much that was so wrong to work. So many talents and skills that would have taken a dozen people to do and not all 12 could be there to do it. One Squatch was and is. You Rock(ford)
Thank you so much for continuing on with X231 I really enjoy watching you tackle the various issues that this old girl throws your way.
Congratulations that everything fits. Nice work!
been loving the videos.
i've done a couple restorations myself but no where near as in depth as your doing.
its very interesting to see some of the quirks of the prototype and things they tried but later decided there was a better way of doing it.
keep up the good work mate. and hello from Australia
Thank you for another great video and learning our great old history..
Don't worry I'll look at anything you do doesn't matter what it is keeping up the good work I'll still watch ☺️
Love the attention to detail.
It looks good. Congratulations on the considerable planning to get that line bore into the true position. That's a big sigh of relief.
I like how you are further prototyping on the prototype.
This is getting exciting! I remember when you started it and how far you've come since then.
Great to see that your hard work is paying off!