I'm 16 and new to this forum and 2 cylinder john Deere's in general but my newest project is a late styled B (haven't looked up the SN yet). Here is the back story. This tractor has been sitting in a barn for 25-30 years partially disassembled. I wanted to use the space for a engine swap I'm about to do in my truck so I decided I'd get the tractor running again. The engine would turn about 1/4 of the way over and stop (I didn't know the oil pump was locked up) so I put the tractor in high gear and rocked it back and forth by hand until the engine freed up the rest of the way( I didn't know it at the time but I broke the oil pump drive coupler). After a little mag and carb cleaning I got it to fire up but after about 45 seconds or so before I realized it didn't have oil pressure and shut it down. I checked the oil only to find that the crankcase was full of nothing but 20 year old gas. I went to drain it only to find a massive amount of sludge covering the drain plug so I decided to pull the top cover off and flush the crankcase out with diesel fuel. While scooping sludge out of the bottom of the case I found a broken L-shaped piece of metal(half the pump drive). After a little bit of web searching and printing off the parts diagram of the tractor last night I figured out the pump had locked up and I had broken the coupler.
Now for the current news. When I went to pull the gears out of the pump today to clean them and free them up I discovered that the oil line to the right hand cam bearing was broken off by the fitting and that there was another line (long with kind of an s-shaped bend in it) laying loose against the pump drive shaft. I will try to get pictures tomorrow. where can I get these lines and they are extremely hard to get to, is there some access cover that I haven't seen?
Sorry for the extremely long and jumbled up post I'm in a hurry to type this and I'm just tying to explain what I've done so far.
Now for the current news. When I went to pull the gears out of the pump today to clean them and free them up I discovered that the oil line to the right hand cam bearing was broken off by the fitting and that there was another line (long with kind of an s-shaped bend in it) laying loose against the pump drive shaft. I will try to get pictures tomorrow. where can I get these lines and they are extremely hard to get to, is there some access cover that I haven't seen?
Sorry for the extremely long and jumbled up post I'm in a hurry to type this and I'm just tying to explain what I've done so far.