davefullmer
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Hi guys,
And gals. I have a Fork Lift that I use to put logs up on my band saw. This fork lift was built in 1972 by a Nasa, a company in Alabama and they used the 172 engines that were used in the 800 series Ford tractors. I was told the engines were all new engines bought from Ford. It is also my understanding that Ford quit using the 172 engine in 1966.
Anyway, My son and I were using the fork lift to move some planed lumber and near the end of the day, the engine started started a bad miss. It never smoked and had always started and run well for me so I bought new plugs, points, condensor and a coil and replaced them. Nothing seemed to help and after a few days of not running, I could not even start the engine.
We did a compression check and found cylinders 1 and 4 at 120 psi and 2 and 3 at 30 psi. After thinking carefully about how fast it it developed the missing situation and that it never smoked, we fell the chances are good that the head gasket has blown or worse, we might have a crack in the head. So we are in the process of removing the head for inspection. Our problem is the Oil tube. We can't seem to pull it up.
The I T&T manual shows a gromet on the oil tube below the side panel on the engine but does not show how the tube is fastened.
I am hoping that one of you might have some experience on how to remove the oil tube so we can inspect the head gasket. If the head gasket shows an obvious path of of a break between the 2 and 3 cylinders, the plan is to buy a valve grind gasket set and put it back together. Other wise, we will have to have the head checked and rebuilt but if we do that, we should probably do a complete rebuild. Money is tight and the sawmill is a part-time occupation so we are trying to get it running with out spending a lot.
Anything anyone can tell us will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
P.S. You can see a picture of the old forklift on my website where I show changing the rubber tired wheels to steel wheels on my '37 Allis Chalmers WC
http://davefullmer.biz/1937AllisChalmers.html
And gals. I have a Fork Lift that I use to put logs up on my band saw. This fork lift was built in 1972 by a Nasa, a company in Alabama and they used the 172 engines that were used in the 800 series Ford tractors. I was told the engines were all new engines bought from Ford. It is also my understanding that Ford quit using the 172 engine in 1966.
Anyway, My son and I were using the fork lift to move some planed lumber and near the end of the day, the engine started started a bad miss. It never smoked and had always started and run well for me so I bought new plugs, points, condensor and a coil and replaced them. Nothing seemed to help and after a few days of not running, I could not even start the engine.
We did a compression check and found cylinders 1 and 4 at 120 psi and 2 and 3 at 30 psi. After thinking carefully about how fast it it developed the missing situation and that it never smoked, we fell the chances are good that the head gasket has blown or worse, we might have a crack in the head. So we are in the process of removing the head for inspection. Our problem is the Oil tube. We can't seem to pull it up.
The I T&T manual shows a gromet on the oil tube below the side panel on the engine but does not show how the tube is fastened.
I am hoping that one of you might have some experience on how to remove the oil tube so we can inspect the head gasket. If the head gasket shows an obvious path of of a break between the 2 and 3 cylinders, the plan is to buy a valve grind gasket set and put it back together. Other wise, we will have to have the head checked and rebuilt but if we do that, we should probably do a complete rebuild. Money is tight and the sawmill is a part-time occupation so we are trying to get it running with out spending a lot.
Anything anyone can tell us will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
P.S. You can see a picture of the old forklift on my website where I show changing the rubber tired wheels to steel wheels on my '37 Allis Chalmers WC
http://davefullmer.biz/1937AllisChalmers.html