The sound of a Minneapolis-Moline 585 diesel cutting hay

The Nephews have been fixing tractors. 

There is a backlog of  favorite tractors which need minor repairs and were parked and never fixed.

The first one to receive attention was my Minneapolis-Moline G1355. This is the first tractor I really bought on my own. It cost $4500 in the 1990's and had a few hours on it then. It has chopped silage, plowed (no three point), baled thousands of acres, cut a lot of hay, pulled the Great Plains 1500 no-till dril. 

We quit running it because of a clutch problem and the three speed wasn't shifting. The clutch issue was due to the throwout bearing assembly locking up to the the PTO shaft. This was due to the tube the throwout bearing assembly coming out of the three speed and binding to the PTO shaft. I have no idea why this happens, but it also happened on the White 2-135.

The three speed was missing the bolt that keeps the counter shaft indexed, the big nut came loose on the over drive clutch pack, and there was a tiny o ring missing on the tail assembly.

I cut hay with the 1355 last week. Unfortunately, one of the Titan Goodyear Radials 18.4x38 has now failed and the sidewalls are so bad I don't think we can put a new tube in it. Sounds like a $1400 repair.

I put this video on YouTube ten days ago and it already has 5,000 views. Must have hit a key word there somehow. Maybe lots of searches for 585 diesel.