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Thank you for your help, just hope I can find a clutch if needed.

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Photos added i can see a fly wheel puller is needed but anyone know how big/ which one/type is needed. thank you.

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If you look around the outer edges of the crown wheels there are a series of numbers one of which will be the date of manufacture.

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Thank you I will try that, unfortunately for me I was just borrowing it from my father in law to do a small veg patch but as always seems to happen when you borrow things they brake while in your possession, do you know if there are any downloads of workshop manual for this machine or would I have to try and buy one.

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Yes, running in oil does seem strange. If bits have broken off and got lodged between the discs it might explain the symptoms you described. It might be worth taking them out (never done this myself, but have read of someone who did) and cleaning them up, plus a light rub over with emery paper or similar and replacing them, being careful to replace them in the same order. These Rotavators do sometimes become available on that auction site and perhaps like me you could make one good one out of two!

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Hi Ben, thanks for that info, I’m surprised to here the clutch runs in oil, having worked on cars for years oil and clutch plate don’t go together, on close inspection the disc’s have chunks broken off in places and if they are unavailable sadly it may be the end of the road for this machine which is a shame as every thing else works fine, regards Ivor

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I had a similar problem with my Mk1 clifford. To solve it I gently eased the discs apart with a screwdriver (they seemed to have seized together) So I freed them up and it has worked perfectly since. Do be careful doing this as from my knowledge these discs are not available for sale.

Yes, the clutch does run in oil and there is an oil fill on top of the gearbox and an oil drain plug underneath it and I think there is a level plug too.
It might be worth draining the existing oil and replacing it with 3 pints of Castrol XXL which is what the manual calls for.
Hope this helps.
Ben.

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Thank you for that. Regards Kev

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I will put a photo on soon but looking at other pictures on the net I’m sure it is a MK1 circa 1955,thanks for quick reply

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There are two plugs underneath the crankcase, one under the oil tank to drain it and the other in the middle of the crankcase to drain fuel oil mix from the two stroke transfer cavity around the crank, it is important to keep the latter well drained if neglected the engine may self consume and run on the oil in the crankcase with damaging and possibly dangerous effect as it frequently happens when the tractor is on a steep slope such as a trailer loading ramp!!!

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The origins of the Nickerson ground care products was a company called Horwool but I believe that the owner of Nickerson went on to acquire the Lwyland tractor business from BMC and that those tractors went from blue to Harvest Gold and were marketed as Marshalls together with the orange Track Marshalls, but I’ve no knowledge of what happened to the ground care products .

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Where was this show guys??

Looks interesting

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Looks amazing Gareth you must put a clip of it on you tube running when its finished. They really stand out with the long bonnet as something
a bit different to the usual gems.

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Been a long time getting back to this thread but in reply to dating my crawler , I have removed the top of the gearbox and no number. So back to square one !

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