This week I was able to get the design for my 2" open end wrench done and drawn on a piece of paper ready to be cut out and traced on a piece of metal. On Wednesday I got to help out on the 6.0 ford truck in the shop and after looking for the reason why it was getting fuel into the oil we discovered that one of the fuel injectors on the passenger side had come apart and was causing a fuel leak that was somehow getting down into the oil pan.
On Saturday I finally got around to adjusting the clutch free play on my grandads old Ford 5000 tractor because it would occasionally grind when shifting gears, we use this tractor for scraping cow poop on his dairy farm. The service manual said to set the free play on the pedal between 1.5"-2" so I got the free play set to 1.75". The clutch felt like it worked better but it was still occasionally grinding when shifting gears, so after a quick google search I found out that its normal for these tractors to do that and that Ford even recommended that you wait a couple of seconds after pushing in the clutch pedal to shift gears.
The clutch pedal linkage removed from the clutch arm
The clutch pedal linkage removed from the clutch arm
On the gear grinding...there is a lot of rotating mass moving that has to come to a halt before you can shift. A few seconds of patience will pay off in the ability to shift with out grinding.
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