Some tips to anyone working on one of these Saginaw steering boxes. Set the steering shaft with new bearings in place less any shims and loosely install two bolts. You can then see the gap that needs to be taken up by the shim pack. Using your shims find a combination that just fills the gap. Add one additional thin shim and that will give you a good starting point for setting the preload on the steering shaft. There are timing marks on the gears. Assemble the bare sector shafts to the box so you can see the timing marks, then install the outside cover onto the shaft. Use some grease to hold the adjuster bolt in place during installation and use a screwdriver to thread the adjuster bolt through the outside housing. It is best to have the steering wheel in place when setting the gears due to wear that can cause tight spots in the complete rotation.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, I took the long way around🤣, but it turns super nice now so I think I got it pretty close. Thanks John!!!

Thanks Ross you make this rebuild look easy 👍🏻

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Very interesting. Yes it all made sense but I’m glad you’re doing it not me!! Thanks for your time and video!

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks John!

Always enjoy the different content with your videos Ross,keep them coming. Thanks for doing what you do.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Bob!

Nice job. Can't wait for the next one.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!!

You might have saved another one. Being it was your first you always have great memories of her and hope you were the first to breach her seal and bearings. Now with the temps supposedly going to be in the 70s next week, you need to get your planters and tillage equipment ready.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

You never forget your first…🤣 and yeah, spring is going to be here before we know it!!!

Juble rides again!

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks John!

It all made sense to me. Very interesting as well. Should be alot better than before. See you later.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Jonathan!!!

I learned a lot from your videos

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Samuel!

Good one ,I have one that needs to be rebuilt . As a good procrastinator I have been putting it off but you have given me inspiration to go forward . Way too go Ross cause it will probably end in sadness .😁

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Mark!

Your speech is due to German ancestry, I talk the same way. Pennsylvania Dutch they call it. It a good thing.👍✌🏻😎

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪Thanks!!!

One more project on the way to completion. Sure takes patience to do preliminary fit-up and check for proper end-play. Should steer much better now.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Don!

Ross thanks for steering us in the right direction with this repair

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

🤣 Thanks Stephen!

Success! You just made that NAA steering happy again after 70 years! Just add the oil, top bearing, paint and a steering wheel.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks John!!!

Your videos are about the right length. Their are a couple utubers that I no longer watch that ramble on for a hour or longer and it gets boring. They show very little content. They can talk for hour about nothing important. Over explain everthing and act like we are all stupid. Please continue. What you are doing

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thank you Mike!

All the stuff you went through ... I did that a year ago on my Ferguson 35. A huge amount of fiddling. But you get it there and it's amazing.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

You don’t realize how wore out it was until you fix it. Then you understand that it was really bad for a lot of years but you didn’t notice it. It’s a good feeling to have it new again.

You're not a moron, I get it a lot of feel with three fine adjustments working in the blind, so tedious. Good job Ross! I have Fordson Dexta I may have to adjust at the least.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

great video i can see where it might a hair pulling experince

Nice video Ross.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Larry!

I used to have a big chest-type freezer like that, they make a great work-bench! Sadly , had to get rid of it when I moved to the farm.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

There’s so much handier than just for storing meat🤣🤣🤣

Ross, You should have had a dial micrometer to measure the old stack thickness of shims. Then you could add a few thousands as needed. My two cents only. Would save you time and frustration. 👍🇺🇸✌🏻

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, I think if I had done some measuring even with a caliper, I could’ve done it faster, but I did eventually get there, even though I took the long way around 🤣

Ross, seems like everything was to make your life a little miserable when you work on stuff🤣🤣🤣 thanks Michael

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

🤣 thanks Michael!!!

First tractor I kinda ever drove had a jubilee mom used to feed with sometimes it would start some times it wouldn't so it sat on hill in front of the barn so I'm like 3 to 4 years old must have pulled it out of gear what a ride looked back and moms running after me . Got my britches dusted off real good lmao

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Yes, it made perfect sense. You conveyed that all of those tolerances were adjustable either by positioning the sector and gears laterally inside the housing or up and down with the shims on the bottom of the shaft housing. It is understood that more adjustments may need to be made once the entire assembly is on the tractor and the steering links are attached to the ends of those spline shafts. It is a pretty straightforward assembly -- more difficult to get the rusty parts apart than putting together with new stuff. I really, really want to see that little tractor restored. Every time you work on it I think of my Uncle Claude Bruner who rebuilt these tractors for many years here in Daylight, Indiana. He had a couple of guys who worked with him and always had two or three of them restored and for sale. He would pick them up at farm sales over in Kentucky and southern Illinois and maintained the largest parts inventory for Ford tractors in several states.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

I think I’m gonna go ahead and try to clean it up and paint it a little bit. I overhauled the motor several years ago so it’s just a matter of fixing leaks and cleaning it up again. Thanks!!!

@oldcars5547720

5 ай бұрын

@@rosstheoliverman You know I enjoy all your videos. That little tractor will run forever. The Jubilee model came out the year I was born so it is the same age as me!

Ross you should get in touch with Brayden Bowman, i think you are both in Indiana but hey just picked up a few Oliver tractors and pieces of equipment on a scrap buy. Oliver 1800 he said and a MM tractor of some type and a few other Oliver things

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

I saw that 1800 he got. It looks pretty nice!

30 to 45min is good.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I wondered how those steering boxes worked but I never took the time to figure it out myself. Now I know

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

It’s really a clever idea, but there is some adjusting to do to keep it working good

thank you, Those episodes that go for an hour are way too long. keeping then around 30-45 minutes would be great!

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Mark!!!

Comment for algorithm. 👍🏻

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Cory!

Good video Ross. Looks so far like I can do my little 8N s steering box. Thank you for the info.

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Yes! Your steering box in the 8N should be identical to this one I believe.

Amazing the skills you have to work on anything love your videos

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thank you David!

Hope goes ok go to plane

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Alex!!

rebuilding an old wagon to store implements on, painting it oliver green, what is the light green called for the wheels

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

I just use Meadow green for that. I suppose you could use the Deutz Spring green but that’s a little too bright for me

All ways cost hobbys all ways something needs tune one them other a servos

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

So true

@alexgarrod9093

5 ай бұрын

Hope got all stuff need now 6 more things come

thanks for keeping the videos to 40 minutes or less cause if I see a video that is more than 45+ minutes long I will not watch it

@rosstheoliverman

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Russ!!!