496 Disk Rebuild

[ELS1466]

Thought I would post some pics of this year's winter project since winter is still hanging on.  Our 496 was in need of quite a bit of TLC, so we went at it.  We still aren't quite finished, but here are some pics of the progress to date.  First pic is from last spring......forgot to take a pic of it before we ripped it apart this winter.  I could still make out the earth metal stamp on most of the blades......some of them were in pretty tough shape.  None of them were broke, but were getting thin and starting to ripple and roll the edges.  

[ELS1466]

We dropped all the gangs off and stuck them in the shop and worked on new blades and bearings as time allowed.  The correct police will probably get me.......its an IH disk, but I like the IH aluminum paint on the wheels instead of the white.  I have the main frame wheels painted, but still need to get the wing wheels done.

[ELS1466]

I posted on the General Forum looking for advice on getting the gangs tightened.  We started with the rear gangs first, and all four of them were kind of a bugger to get tightened up.  We ended up finally getting them, but they took a lot more effort than the front gangs...........suppose by the time we did the fronts we were getting some experience under our belts:).  We got the main frame painted and have the gangs ready to hang.  Will get some decals coming and get them on, along with the wing wheels painted.  Might (hopefully) end up getting a chance to use it before that happens.  

[bitty]

Looks nice. Are you going to get a 4366 or so to restore it and leave it hooked up ?

[TroyDairy]

looks great and cheaper than a new one!  Disc still are well used here with our soils and plowing.  On getting gangs tight, we rebuilt our 770 IH about 10 years ago.  Ended up getting 90% new spools too.  $$$ but when you'd compare them to new it was about 1/2" dif.  They tightened up good then.  Pre season I'll give them a pull to keep them that way.

[ELS1466]

Bitty........I'm all for that idea........or maybe a nice 6788.........or as long as I'm dreaming how bout a 7488??  I would be fine with any or all of them:)  Troy.......I commented to the parts guy when I picked up the blades and some other parts that pretty soon I would have an old disk for the price of a new one........he assured me we were a ways off yet!!

[ELS1466]

Forgot to post pics of the finished product last spring.

[DT Fan]

That turned out great!

[Indy Farmer]

Turned out pretty good. I like the silver wheels more than the white. I bet its good for another 30 years.

 

I bought and restored a 220 JD a few years ago, not a fun job. Used it once and it floated on top of corn stalks so it got sold, for a nice profit at least.

[bitty]

7 hours ago, Indy Farmer said:

Turned out pretty good. I like the silver wheels more than the white. I bet its good for another 30 years.

 

I bought and restored a 220 JD a few years ago, not a fun job. Used it once and it floated on top of corn stalks so it got sold, for a nice profit at least.

We had one of those bought new in the late '70's or 80's. It had enough weld added to hold the frame together I would like to think it could have cut corn stalks 

[shot_gun_red]

I always wondered how sunflower ,krause ,JD, White found enough suckers to buy their disc in the 80s!

Ever the hard core IH haters pulled a IH disc!

Nice 496 

[Hawkron]

We had an IH 370, nice for light ground but sucked in heavy clay. Bought a JD 210 and then the disking fun began!