Thank you all for your wonderful forum discussions!
My name is Tony and I own a David Brown 995 serial #982420 Diesel 2WD 12 speed with a Dual Loader. I bought it last Saturday at an estate sale here in South Dakota. Also bought a small power unit at the same sale, a two cylinder Wisconsin with a gear reduction. I needed something to power my sawmill which is belt drive, not sure whether I will use the tractor or the Wisconsin. The tractor does not have the belt drive attachement so I will keep an eye on Ebay for one.
The 995 is hard starting but once it starts, it runs great with no smoke or loss of power so I have ruled out poor compression as a problem. I bought it realizing that I may have to get into the injection pump and spend some money. The first thing I did was to find this owners group and read up on past posts. Then I bought an IT service manual at the local "Runnings" rancher supply store in Rapid City.
I have looked over the engine and see only one problem - the fuel supply line has a rubber hose over it in what looks to be a prior attempt to fix a leak. That may be the only problem with the hard starting - if it is drawing air that could be the culpret.
The other problem is slow hydraulics. I pulled the dipstick and found that it is low, to the bottom of the dipstick - no white coloration but when I pulled the quick disconnect for the loader there was white coloration there indicating water contamination. The two dust covers on the shift levers were worthless and I went to the local case dealer - they had them on hand for about eight bucks each so I am cleaning the top of the housing off and installing the new ones. I am going to put some grease into them. Comments?
I did not add any hydraulic fluid yet because I am going to drain it completely and change all the filters.
Btw, oil and fuel filters for the 995 can be found at NAPA here in the US. The price is $11.29 for the oil filter (Part #1313) and $7.69 for each fuel filter (Part #3166).
The Hydraulic filter I could only find at the Case dealer and they are pretty proud of it pricewise. I may have to design a re-usable one that I can clean. This tractor is not going to be nor appears to ever have been a shed queen, it is a working tractor. It has a dual loader on the front with a grapple. There are dents on the front of the sheetmetal and the lights are all broken off. I may put some led lights on it from a big rig (truck tractor trailer) or may find some of those URAL motorcycle ones on ebay, they look similar. I'm not anal enough about being right to pay for a set of orginals unless I can find a used set very reasonably! Snow-mobile tail lights may work for the back fenders also, they have the right look.
I am a single father and will probably put a set of ROPS on it for safety, I need to be there for my kids! I will make them myself and attach the front to the loader frame assembly and the back down onto the rear axle housing. I do not have a cab on mine for roll over protection which is a bummer but I doubt a cab would work out with the loader anyway.
I did not go looking for a David Brown tractor, matter of fact I have never seen one before. I think it brought a lower price at the sale because of the problems and also because it is scary for many people not to have something that is green in color around here. What would the neighbors think anyway? Blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, I really like this tractor. It is the perfect size and weight for my use on my acreage. It has brand new rear tires and that three point hitch in the back looks very serious.
One question that I have: I don't have an operation manual yet - can any of you all tell me what the small plastic lever is on the left side of the rear axle housing is or does? Is it a differential lock? Not to be confused with the foot lever on the front of the right side of the differential - I see that is the foot operated differential lock from the IT manual.
Also, how do you engage the parking brake?
My 995 has the PTO Clutch by the way, similar from what I read in the forum posts here to the 996. Maybe a North America thing.
Nice to meet you all.
Tony C.
Ok, here is my update today. Engine starts better when I use the ignition switch in conjunction with the push button starter switch that was added on. Still a bit slow starting in my opinion but will follow up on the advice about the connector block. I will also follow up on the timing advance/retard scrwe on the bottom of the injection pump later on after I check all wiring connnections. I changed out the hydraulic fluid - there was only a gallon and a half in the tranny - six liters or so! Bad news: I found a circlip that had broken in half and a piece of brass in the bottom with all the gunk and the only thing that I can figure it out to be is a bearing pad out of the 12 Speed Transmission (#48 or #52 in Figure 108 of my I&T shop manual - page 52). I was not able to get the magnetic filter out of the suction filter - looks like a one piece unit, turning the nut does not release it. So I cleaned everything the best I could, installed the new filter and made a gasket for the top hat. Put it all together and filled it up - hydraulics work much better. The circlip and piece of brass that I found concern me, looks like something that I really need to take care of before the tranny eats itself up. Went crazy with the grease gun and lubricating everything - parking brakes works great now. Dust covers have been replaced, the Left high/low transmission dust cover does not like to stay on, might have to put some super glue on it? My first attempt to post pictures follows:
http://www.dbtc.co.uk/index.php?name=PN ... =3991#3991