JMS/.MN - Never been out that far west, I bet it's pretty nice out that far though. I'm originally out of Hudson, WI now living in St. Paul but hope to buy a house with some land out in WI in the next couple years.
Here's an update for you guys.
Saturday
It looks like it's a C, the serial number is C9291 which from tractordata says it's a 1941 (unless I'm reading it wrong). Easy-off oven cleaner took the paint really well, and quickly!
We split the tractor and removed all the outer stuff from the block, I'll take more pictures of the block and internals tomorrow.
I think we have to remove the crankshaft/camshaft in order to pop the sleeves out, we tried it with a 2x4 and a mini-sledge but it just chewed up the 2x4 since it was off center because of the crankshaft.
I picked up a nice 2000 lb engine stand from harbor freight, I figure buy once, cry once, just in case I work on something bigger in the future. I'm only 34 so I have a few years left in me to get into some stuff.
So the block only has the internals and gears left on it, it's sitting on some 2x4's on the engine stand, I may take the crank/cam out tomorrow or wait until next weekend. We'll see how I feel, I pulled something in my arm and it hurts a bit. All in all a good day!
Sunday
Today I tore the engine down and removed the crankshaft so that I could pound out the sleeves. I tried with a 2x4 and it just chewed up the wood, I tried with an oak log as well and it fared a bit better but wouldn't budge with my mini-sledge. I didn't have time to take more pictures of the internals but I will next weekend for sure.
Should I put some acetone/ATF in the bottom of the block so that it can hopefully seep down the sleeve and loosen it up? I'm not sure what else to do. I though about buying a sleeve puller but that wouldn't work because only 1 of the sleeves doesn't have a piston in it. Any other ideas? Should I just be using a pine 2x4 or something else?
It all went fairly well so far, there were only two parts that gave me a bit of trouble:
1. The steering arm/drag link (or whatever it's called, the long bar on the side with the ball joints on them), I couldn't find the name of it or anything in my 2 manuals that said what it was or how to take it apart. When I took off one of the nuts I couldn't figure how it was supposed to come off, I hammered on it a few times and it wouldn't budge, I thought maybe I had to pop the ball joint apart. We ended up putting a propane torch on the part the threaded end goes into and heated it up, then I whacked it (the threaded end) about 10 times really hard and it didn't move, I was getting frustrated and I was thinking that it may not come off that way so I was just messing around and just tapped lightly on it 3 times, not even hard enough to hurt your knuckles if you did it to your hand and it popped right out in front of our eyes! My dad and I looked at each other and started laughing so hard, we couldn't believe that happened.
2. The crankshaft pulley - I took the nut off the set screw and didn't see that it had a flat-head slot in it to unscrew it so it took me a little bit to figure that out, then I read online that there was another set screw behind it so I was digging in there trying to get it (it apparently doesn't have a second one), there is a key back inside there that I thought was the second one.. I was wondering why I couldn't get my screwdriver to bite. I also read online that you should use a puller and a bearing splitter to get the pulley off because they break easily.. out came the propane torch again, a crowbar, and the mini sledge. After it got nice and toasty I put the crowbar on the back inside lip and hammered it a few times, then moved to the other side and did the same thing, eventually it started to move and I kept at it until it popped off. I didn't break it!
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