Disassembly: Part 1 replacing center pins and bearings on a John Deere 624k payloader

Replacing center pins and Bearings on a John Deere 625K loader . Part 1
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[@sneakysnake109]

Wow Andy, the more I watch your channel, the more I'm starting to believe that farming is your secondary job, done in your spare time between equipment repairs! You all stay busy!

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

I know right

[@joeehenger6156]

Hope you can show the line boring I think that will be very interesting. Keep up the good work

[@mikeznel6048]

Jrs little box, thats so awesome. Never forget your first tool box!

[@tractorcorleone]

There is always something to do,lots of different things make the job interesting 💪💪

[@heotechniques5065]

“Alright... stand out of way “ he says lol. The jobs you guys take on are quite amazing. Great for your son to see and learn from. 👍🇨🇦

[@stevenhorne5089]

This is so cool. It's the reason so many of us watch your channel.

[@evancrichfield5541]

Really incredible seeing the high hours on your machines and how well everything still looks and functions in your every day tasks. Goes to show you what good maintenance does. Keep up the great work and keep the videos coming!

[@cassiuspuckett8789]

When you said split the pay loader, I thought to myself, I'm glad your doing that. And yes it's gonna be a real trick to line those two holes up to put the pins back in...

[@fleminj2pa]

You guys do a lot of your own heavy lifting in your operation. Very impressive!

[@johnwaby4321]

Defenitey a busy day in the workshop . That's the trouble when you take things apart you find more problems. There is always hidden problems 👍👍👍

[@dmcc4286]

I do center pins some. I’m a Deere tech. We put railroad jacks under the back. You did it just like we do. Except we put super big floor Jack under the front and pull it back with a tow motor. Good job sir.

[@kennywarf9826]

Love the old 20 series, 40,43,45,46,&50 badass American iron, made JD . Good job on getting the loader about with out a incident! 👍

[@disturbedcarrot]

The hours on those machines are fantastic

[@dankinnard1833]

This is the reason I watch this channel, you guys do it all! Challenging is to say the least, can not believe you are undertaking a job like this in your shop, even though it is probably equipped to do so, many people would have elected to send it back to the dealership for this type of service, thumbs up to you and your crew!

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Thanks

[@Melting_Fireman]

The channel name is perfect! It's a whole lot of fixing, fabricating with farming mixed in and thats just how it goes on a large dairy operation.

[@candlelightministries]

Boy do the maintenance on all your equipment never ends ... your family has such a large farm ... do you ever get a break? Glad to see Junior back in videos... he’s so talented fir his age:)

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Nope

[@johnmcgreevy742]

Nice to see junior back lol. Amazing how much maintenance is required to keep the farm up and running. Also it's great you and the team knows how to work on all of it. Thanks for the video!!

[@DavidSmith-jc4yk]

Watching you guys split the loader was kinda like watching a Nascar race when it starts to rain....Great job.

[@patrickerger1483]

Very interesting video Andy. Great to see your shadow junior back on the farm.

[@geraldfrench3287]

G'day Andy. Enjoy your work. Many years left in this payloader. Thanks. See you on the next one

[@bearasojrnr]

Oh wow! From pillar to post, it never ends. Sure beats doin all a that out of doors. Lookin good Boss Man!

[@MrRobert1603]

Y'all need a safety meeting taking that one apart .. watch your fingers and no beer drinking during the build!! Be safe !!! Thanks

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Every moment is a safety meeting

[@stanleyjones4180]

im amazed by what you guys can do and what you have to do to keep this farm running, excellent video and great work andy and crew.

[@mikegozdziewski3289]

You guys are amazing with the amount of repairs you make on your family farm

[@paulerwin721]

Playtime is over .... Shop Supervisor Junior is bak on the job. Glad he's do'n better ... stay safe Horigan family

[@mikeznel6048]

Thats the way to do it, get it done when its a noise before it is a machine with so much slack in the middle your windshield touches the loader frame. Its so much cheaper and safer to do it early than it is to replace the whole thing.

[@jeremyshoemaker1058]

I really enjoy your videos and I’m impressed with your help in the shop. They all seem motivated to learn and help the process get done

[@mikeznel6048]

I would have thought JD would have thicker steel at that articulation point.

[@mrdfarms9373]

Thanks for the ride along Andy, line boring is going to be interesting. Watched “Dirt Perfect” just go through several line borings on his John Deere 120 excavator. Zero tolerance for a mistake, time to dig into that 90 🍺 stash after all of that work.

[@lordofhowell7158]

Looking forward to next video on loader. Not heard of that before. Brilliant video! 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@adamstrawdog819]

I work at a ethanol plant we use a Cat 924 for loading out distiller grains it's 14 years old with just under 30k hours. I also work on dairy farms with deer trackers from your videos keep the good work 👍👍👍

[@edmullins4519]

“Articulation Cam” was pretty cool 👍

[@joelee662]

ANDY GLAD TO SEE YOU HAVE ANDREW SOMEONE HAS TO KEEP YOU IN LINE LOL 😄 I HAVE TO TELL YOU I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS . YOU EXPLAIN EVERYTHING AND THAT'S ONE OF THE GREATEST THING ABOUT ALL YOUR VIDEOS 👍 THANKS FOR SHARING 👍🇺🇸

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Thanks Joe

[@henkjanssen186]

Why are you shouting?

[@tomrichter244]

I am kind of surprised that the maintenance manual doesn't t show the center of gravity for those. Good job in figuring it out!

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Work like this isn’t going to be in a maintenance manual though

[@proudpennsylvaniaman7996]

I love your way of doing work. One hell of a solid fella.

[@hardtke77]

Best videos to watch out there by far on this channel

[@jeffbrooks6166]

I worked on a small potato farm a few years back and they had a Case International 9350. The center pins were wore out on it every time it shifted it bang. The farmer pulled it in the shop and we started jacking it up and supporting it. It was not going very smooth and I convinced him to call the dealership for every one’s safety. They came and got it on a drop deck trailer. Long story short I believe they charged him $2000.00 and had it back the next day. I don’t know how much something like that would cost now but I thought it was pretty cheap for what they had to do including pick up and delivery the tractor even had duals on it too. Thanks Andy

[@anthonybanda8192]

You ever get any high school kids to do a ag mechanic apprenticeship with you ? I took ag mechanics in high school I was lucky enough to get to co OP for some local farms including my family's. I learned some tricks from the farmers but the most important thing I learned was how to improvise a repair . I think that teaching kids skills is important. I'm only 27 years old but I know alot for my age and working on the farm really gave me an edge for when I got into the workforce. Keep up the good work and stay safe !

[@mdj2959]

Thanks for all your videos all farmers have to be a Jack of all trades

[@SAB_Agri]

Interesting seeing loader in two half Andy 👍 Be looking forward to see the rebuild...

[@bobkyllo578]

Stay safe Andy. The neighbor split a 4 wheel drive tractor 2 Winters ago. As he was rolling it back something went wrong and it fell off his cribbing. Luckily no one got hurt, but what a mess it was to get all picked back up and blocked up again. Of course once that it fell nothing was in line anymore

[@mikewhite3293]

wow you work on alot of stuff, thanks for sharing.

[@travisteeter5072]

Great video as always! A fellow cny'er who visits your relatives down the road at maple lane.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Stop in sometime

[@clydeschwartz2167]

Excellent video when I split big center pivot tractors I try to set up a wheel system and weld it right to the framework or the drawbar support it's generally easier to get them apart then going back together the biggest thing is to make sure noboby gets pinched in there. The last one I did was a 8640 John Deere tractor I may up a wheel system with the just the hubs and spindles from a junked out John Deere disc the farmer had in his bone yard. The oscillation rear end is the trickery part on a payloader. Keep up the great videos

[@sharonromer6606]

Great to see JR up and about.

[@keithmock6515]

Another great video. When I was in high school I worked on a dairy farm and the 4020 was one of the main 2 tractors.

[@ronzo9377]

A lot of heavy work going on in the garage great video

[@paulcrocker2837]

Well that's exciting, looking forward to seeing the next video

[@coryschoeneman9550]

Keep drinking milk. Andy’s parts bill never goes away!

[@Badgermatt-nc5nr]

Ahhh just another normal day on the farm... :D I hope you show as much as you can on the ole 4020, they are everywhere around here, and I would love to pick one up to play with after I get my 1956 model 50 finished.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

I will

[@rjacobs1200]

Love the 4029 getting cleaned up

[@stanlamborn6796]

Gen/alternators n starters are well know receivers of the tap tap fix. Great video

[@ejharrop1416]

Wow. Years ago I knew a CAT dealer and splitting articulations was always a stressful business. Most definitely take it slow and easy. Should call your site Fearless Farming, Fixing and Fabrication. Thanks for sharing and good luck.

[@andrewstich7117]

Very interesting fixing the loader thanks for the video and your hard work

[@davidaarons2488]

Now that looks like a fun job. Reassembly looks like a real swearing job full of things that will need lots of blips LoL. I'm sure your are looking forward to that huh, Andy. Jesus Saves

[@charleslynch7274]

So much going on in the shop your head must be spinning i know mine would be thanks for the videos even though ur a very busy guy

[@jeffstrains4014]

Lot of work to get it in two pieces to bad there was no replaceable bushings. Good video!

[@wymershandymanservice9965]

Line boring them can be a pain because getting the room to run the bar is always fun. Great content equipment wears out no matter how close you keep an eye on it. 🇺🇸🦅🌏⚓️🇺🇸

[@roberttryon537]

4020 was the biggest tractor we had when i was a kid

[@morgansword]

Been there and done this. Real old machine, a 966 log loader and tons of hours on it. When it ripped out the eye on the bottom and the top was the pin finally just broke, it put me through the windshield and in mud and tree bark. I don't remember anything important on me getting hurt but I knew I had a wild ride.... really quick. When we would use it, those joints would really talk loud, clunk clunk... should of quit while ahead as it was the end of that machine. Everything on it matched the worn joint in those pins.... they are not all that big for how much they have to do. Now on a small wheel lift (dorky looking thing) the bottom eye ripped out so I took the very best torches I had an a lot of new steel, cut out all my metal to shape and the drilling of those holes took the longest but I squared that little machine as close as reasonable, welded the flat plates with those alignment holes... to each other cause once tacked in an all the adjusting was done, it was hours of welding to make them like each other again.

[@tebfarms939]

Good video, enjoying the daily videos thanks for your work

[@normannichols780]

Doing a good job better than cleaning the shop every video. I like the rebuilds of the tractors, truck's sand truck the new tools you try out bought two of them tiger tools leaning on hydraulic hose press ps what clutch break do you like what clutch do you like next video.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

The Rivet pin style

[@markmullin4246]

Ah,there's junior ! Was wondering where he was hiding, hadn't seen in awhile.

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

Did you ear Andy tell him stand over there. He didn't want his pumpkin smashed.

[@oldfarmer4700]

I believe by the way the front is half way balanced it won't be to bad lining it back up. Did a nice job on taking it apart blocking it and chaining, jack stands and and all. Bad enough getting hit by small iron, that big shit will damn sure hurt you. Looking forward to the fix and reassembling it.

[@davdhynes3518]

Separated a 950 B Cat once, knew the engine could roll, rolled putting it back together onto jack stand we put there just in case, scared the living daylights out of us. Please be real careful, just a nervous 70 year old.

[@bobthesnowman8929]

Major job once again-that’s gonna take more than one barley pop !!

[@ericluitjens4256]

Hang on to your shorts if you get an alternator from deere. Last one I priced for a 7800 was over $500 for a reman. I ended up ordering one from A.C. DELCO $185 For a new one.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Yes they are salty

[@peteschiavoni]

Huge undertaking for sure. What will you do for feeding without the loader? Jared’s restoration project is going to be cool

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Using the other loader

[@Davefromwisconsin]

I just had to replace the alternator on my big truck a thousand miles from home yesterday. They didn’t even kiss me first.

[@smokinstroker444]

Damn you put some serious hours on your equipment lol. Great videos andy keep them coming.

[@dickhansen8594]

Awesome video. Gunna be awkward loading feed for a few days. Thank you for sharing boss

[@Danbark601]

Ahh the ol rub and tug.. works every time.

[@egan88817]

Always interesting, informative, and enjoyable video's. Now that you have split the loader, would you do it again or ship it out? Thank you for today's video.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Defiantly do it again, next time it will be easier

[@sneakysnake109]

I had to replay at 13:50 to see if you said you had a bottle jack or a bottle of Jack. Not so sure I wouldn't need both! Not at the same time of course, that heavy equipment is too dangerous to be around without 100% of your senses. Thanks for another great video!

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

lol

[@steveboxum6734]

Nice job on the pay loader!!!!! Been there done that.

[@philglover2973]

Excellent video well done top job top team awesome thanks y'all be safe out there

[@todd3518]

I have 2 gensets at remote radio sites, both with 6.8 L JD engines. the same engine a lot of your tractors have. one has 47,000h on it, the older one is at 65,000h! nether has ever had a valve cover off, amazing what you can do when you properly maintain a machine. they run 24/7/365 only down for maintenance.

[@ollie-lk5dx]

You got to love a challenge!

[@sneakysnake109]

I can hear it all the way here in Missouri. The boys walked into the shop and saw that 4020 and said ”Holy Hell, I thought we were through painting tractor wheels, at least for a couple of years. LMAO!

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

lol

[@jvanderhoeven229]

21000 hours with no overhaul that is impressive

[@steveb6103]

Keeping up with the maintenance is the key.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Yes

[@lorengolliher2712]

Looking good I've split them many of those John Deere's I've never split one without the bucket on it but it won't be bad to put back together once it's line board but too I would check the minimums and maximums from John Deere but it probably looks like it needs to be done cuz I'm articulated loaders just found themselves apart like that looking good Andy good luck

[@danwortmann7064]

Just admit it Andy ! Tim pounded out the pins with his claw hammer!!!! LoL

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Yes

[@josephmccarry6700]

Great video Andy done some center pins myself. Not an easy job

[@quackattak]

Have split those with 3 jack stands on the rear section and a floor jack on the front, one of the better machines to split. Cab comes off fairly easy for line boring, this is a common issue on these.

[@deereman2479]

You are amazing lot stuff to keep running, keep it up.

[@steveb6103]

I see your having a Mountain Dew there. I've done that trick with the Go Pro to find a vibration it a drive line.

[@mikemiller2246]

We did a 924k and left bucket on and was very stable - l was surprised you didn't get the line bore guy before you took apart! How do you cows with out loader , that's right you have telahandler

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

We have 2 leaders

[@byronmill]

I'm kind of curious how they're going to get the line boring head in there. Are you going to have to take the cab off to give them clearance? Hardly looks like there's room underneath to fit the line boring heads that I've seen. Maybe tip the back half to elevate it off the floor a little? It will be interesting to see how they accomplish this. I'm sure you'll be giving us video!

[@dougackerman4182]

Awesome video Andy

[@shanekarns3061]

So interesting watching your videos a person could learn alot from you. Amazing work!!!! Nice payloader. Are you not able to use the telehandler, our a loader to feed if your payloader is down? Nice hat junior!!!!

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Using the other loader

[@mattyx3x]

Been trying to get that rub n tug thing to catch on..... no luck.

[@robjw7250]

Excellent work Andy

[@Ham68229]

Definitely got some serious movement with those center pins. Have you considered rebuilding the alternator or just continue to do core exchanges? From my understanding, they're not that difficult to rebuild them. A lot of hrs for a tractor that still looks decent, most are "ragged" out around those kind of hrs. I tip my hat off to you for tackling a job like this, this is one of those "difficult" type jobs that most won't touch. If it went to the dealership, you'd be waiting at least 2-3 weeks if not a month as slow as them move. Make the boys video that 4020 restore. Let's hope you can get that loader back up and running in short order. Cheers :)

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

I’ve never done a rebuild on an alternator

[@ginggur17]

Is the 7720 like the modern version of the 4230 Andy? Just curious as to what she is equivalent to of the old school models. 👍👍🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Yes about that size compared to the times

[@ginggur17]

Cool, it’s nice to see what their matches are. Thankyou. That shovel loader looks so difficult. The marriage of both halves will be interesting to see. Take care Andy, thanks again for replying, appreciate it bud. 🙏🙏👍👍👍🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@Nick-tz2vl]

Do I spy a new lincoln mig machine? Andy you should do a tour of all the different welders you have in the shop. Thatd be a cool video

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Yes that’s Curr’s welder

[@rodneyerdmann1545]

I think your payloader has the same problem I had with my left hip until I had it replaced! I didn't move very well anymore!!!

[@gasperajdnik5627]

Good work 👍

[@terrycapstick994]

There's a lot goes on in the background keeping the moo cows fed and clean 😁😁😁

[@gpickering7219]

Cows are hard on equipment for sure

[@two-strokesmoke7289]

Makin' a gallon of milk gets fairly complicated at times.....

[@Mass_hole508]

I was thinking the same thing. LoL