Reviving A FREE Abandon 1948 J.I. Case VAC Tractor With a Custom Front End!?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Finally got around to rescuing this poor old 1948 J.I. Case! When I got the tractor I knew it had been heavy modified and messed with but its worse than I thought. With a custom front end that does not steering this rig is going to be a challenge to get driving well again. With not much serious effort I did get it to run and pulled it off the trailer despite having no transmission fluid, would not recommend. anyhow another one saved form the crusher and or yard art. Back to life and somewhat ready to go!
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Runs better than I thought it would. Awesome! 👏🏼💪🏼
Same here, even with all the stuff in the exhaust!
Tyler, my name is Tom and to answer some of your questions. The J.I.Case part number for the rear axle seal is=VT-3749. To install, just dig out the old one from the outer end of the axle housing. Then carefully slide the new one in and drive it in till it is even with the axle housing. The rear end/transmission uses 90 wt oil with 7 gal. Check the PTO seal for now is theme to change it before you put the 90 wt oil in. Next the engine only puts out about 15 pounds of oil pressure so besure to get a low pressure oil gauge if you ever replace the oil gauge. As for the engine it was a new design in 1942 and was originally a Continental 124 cu inch which Case bought and started to manufacture them selves. The torque tube between the 9 inch clutch housing and the transmission will hold 2 gal of 10 wt non detergent oil for the low pressure live hydraulic pump on your VAC. It is pronounced V A C not vac like in vacuum cleaner.When that VAC was new it came with a high pressure piston pump an the bottom of the belt pulley. It operated at about 4,200 lbs. In late 1949 Case came out with the eagle three point hitch. The engine live power pump had the pressure relief set at 850 lbs Now the hose from the underside of the torque tube up to the pump is the suction line. The line from the pump to the hydraulic valve is the high pressure line. If the hydraulic valve on your tractor doesn't have a built in pressure relief then if you hold the valve longer than it take the cylinder to travel the full length the pressure will build till something gives. The oil returns to the torque tube on the left side of the steering column. My Dad got a 1949 VAC which had a trip bucket Twin Draullic loader on it back in 1958. He later bought a VAC with the eagle hitch too. It was a 1950 model. In 1951 Case went to shoe brakes from the disk brakes design. Your engine has a 9 ball fly weight governor. In 1949 Case went to a two weight fly governor. If you have any questions just E-mail me and I will try to answer them. Tom.
Very cool info! Thanks for clearing some of my questions up. I will for sure have to look into the hydraulics before use. Where is the drawbar at on these tractors?
I don't know about your VAC because it has a homemade three point hitch. There was a L-shape bracket just below the PTO bolted to the rear axle housing. The drawbar had a little flat hook that went on the L-shape bracket and had a strap that bolted to the bottom of the rear axle housing. There was a large round pin that went through the strap and up into the axle housing with a 5/16 bolt that went into the front of the axle housing to hold the big round pin on. You may have to use a cross drawbar in the three point hitch? The VAC came with battery ignition and your model had lights bolted to the deck on each side. The Eagle hitch model had a step also bolted under the left side of the deck to get on because of the three point hitch arms in the back. Case made the eagle hitch to compete with the Ford 8N. But the 8N you had to have the PTO running to get the three point arms to raise. TheCase had live hydraulics which made it nicer. The Ford could lift just a little more so Case in the early fifty's had the dealers place a 3/8 inch washer under the relief valve so the oil pressure went from 850 to 950-1000 pounds for the heavier implements. The 8N had just a little more horse power as long as you used Ford's implements. They both used 10 bt 28 inch rear tires One other change that Case did was that that the VAI the shift pattern was 1-2 and 3-4 not the 1-3 and 2-4 that yours has. And the VAI also turned up a few more RPMs because it came with 10-24 inch tires. In 1951 the VAC got the steering changed/ the brakes changed, and they went to 10-34 inch tires which helped the traction. The VAH came with 10-36 inch tires. Tom.