Ransomes MG5 Crawler

[Barking Mat]

I couldn’t find new radiator hose but I did buy new hose clamps. I also got new bolts for the cowling.

Nice pipe clamps.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Nice pipe clamps.

Cheers. They were $10.50 each! I don’t like the jubilee clip type as they chew up the hose.

 

[Barking Mat]

Cheers. They were $10.50 each! I don’t like the jubilee clip type as they chew up the hose.

Ouch!

 

[Dieselman 63]

Ouch!

Company called Norma make them. I think they’re stainless, too.

 

[Barking Mat]

Norma good stuff.

Loads over here, I'd assumed French could be totally wrong.

 

[Dieselman 63]

One spotted in the wild at Hastings, earlier this year.

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Glad I’m not the only one who takes photos of machines when out and about!

 

[Dieselman 63]

More work on the tractor. The pump rebuild kit has arrived. Though it’s for a different pump, lots of bits are the same. This justified buying it I thought. The glass was full of crud and everything needs a good tidy up.

Then I started playing on it, and it was really going well until a huge plume of white smoke came out the exhaust... maybe needs new rings or head gasket?

I got the track all tightened again, bought all these 3/4 drive bits the other week for $200 and they’ve come in super handy. I don’t have any whitworth but the conversion chart gets close enough.

 

[KimB]

More work on the tractor. The pump rebuild kit has arrived. Though it’s for a different pump, lots of bits are the same. This justified buying it I thought. The glass was full of crud and everything needs a good tidy up.

Then I started playing on it, and it was really going well until a huge plume of white smoke came out the exhaust... maybe needs new rings or head gasket?

I got the track all tightened again, bought all these 3/4 drive bits the other week for $200 and they’ve come in super handy. I don’t have any whitworth but the conversion chart gets close enough.

I absolutely love Ransomes, my partner and I placed a bid on one a couple months back. Didn’t win but in the end we just fixed up some of of his David Brown crawlers and a Fordson major. Crawlers are so much fun.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

More work on the tractor. The pump rebuild kit has arrived. Though it’s for a different pump, lots of bits are the same. This justified buying it I thought. The glass was full of crud and everything needs a good tidy up.

Then I started playing on it, and it was really going well until a huge plume of white smoke came out the exhaust... maybe needs new rings or head gasket?

I got the track all tightened again, bought all these 3/4 drive bits the other week for $200 and they’ve come in super handy. I don’t have any whitworth but the conversion chart gets close enough.

Looking well, I always feel like they should have track guards though

 

[Dieselman 63]

Looking well, I always feel like they should have track guards though

I think the MG40 did have them. Safety standards must have changed by the 1960s!

 

[Dieselman 63]

I absolutely love Ransomes, my partner and I placed a bid on one a couple months back. Didn’t win but in the end we just fixed up some of of his David Brown crawlers and a Fordson major. Crawlers are so much fun.

They really are eh? It’s mesmerising to watch them lay down their track and terrific fun to just mow down obstacles that would get all tangled up in a normal tractor, like branches. I’ve had both my sister and my mum have a go on it, they both enjoyed it! My sisters boyfriend was less enthusiastic to begin with but after seeing me mucking about doing skid steering, had a go, loved it, now wants one too!

 

[octo0072000]

the lots of oil smoke could just be a bit too much oil in the sump
then with all the skidding about caused oil problem

 

[johnny max]

Anybody I could ask about a 1974/76 D5 cat.

 

[KimB]

They really are eh? It’s mesmerising to watch them lay down their track and terrific fun to just mow down obstacles that would get all tangled up in a normal tractor, like branches. I’ve had both my sister and my mum have a go on it, they both enjoyed it! My sisters boyfriend was less enthusiastic to begin with but after seeing me mucking about doing skid steering, had a go, loved it, now wants one too!

Oh absolutely, something so neat about driving them. We have been fixing up his dozer David brown mainly which is nearly mechanically done, we’re hoping to take it somewhere and start making a mess

 

[Dieselman 63]

I cleaned all the petrol crud out. It was really horrible, sludge and a glaze over everything. The castings for the housing came up quite well with a scrub of carby cleaner. The lower half is now reassembled and I need to make up the diaphragm bits and buy some gasket paper. I opted to lose the patina and scrub everything shiny and clean.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Oh absolutely, something so neat about driving them. We have been fixing up his dozer David brown mainly which is nearly mechanically done, we’re hoping to take it somewhere and start making a mess

Will we be seeing a write-up like you did with the Landy?

 

[Dieselman 63]

A before pic of the pump. To be honest it didn’t look too awful.

 

[KimB]

I cleaned all the petrol crud out. It was really horrible, sludge and a glaze over everything. The castings for the housing came up quite well with a scrub of carby cleaner. The lower half is now reassembled and I need to make up the diaphragm bits and buy some gasket paper. I opted to lose the patina and scrub everything shiny and clean.

I love the simplistic design of the older machines, amazing how many had that same glass fuel bowl.

Will we be seeing a write-up like you did with the Landy?

We did it on a YouTube series on his channel.

A before pic of the pump. To be honest it didn’t look too awful.

I’ve not seen one like that before, is that a priming lever.
Side note, I looked at the earlier picture and made more sense of it.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

We did it on a YouTube series on his channel.

Link please?

 

[KimB]

Link please?

I’ll create a separate post I think. I don’t want to derail this one.