Hello,
I am new to the forum, I will apologize in advance if asking for something that has been fully covered in a previous threads.
Just a little background, a guy posted a dandy little Massey 35 on Facebook for sale. A his Father in Law had passed away and the family was selling his equipment. I went to look at the tractor and made the agreement to buy it.
I was starting to write the check and the Son, said that if I liked tractors there was and old Minneapolis buried in a collapsed shed up in the woods.
There was a pile of rubble covered with Poison Ivy vines. You could see the steering wheel poking out. In what was the front of the building you could see the grill of the tractor and to the side part of a rear wheel.
I bought that tractor too.
I won't say what model. I took a lot of pictures, and I thought it might be fun to post and guess what model the tractor is. I ended up guessing wrong. Once I figure out how to post to the forum I will. Unless you think it is silly and we will skip it.
I thought it was going to be a fun adventure, but 3 hours into it, it became a lot of work.
I got the tractor unburied and finally home. I was playing around with the hand crank and to my surprise the engine was free. I turned the engine over several times by hand. I did not hear any bad noises like metal scraping.
The tractor is in much better shape than I expected. Kind of a time capsule. I took the old battery out and it had the date of October 1978 scratched into the top. I took the starter off cleaned and oiled it.
As I was testing the starter, it was spinning the engine and really just got up to speed when something with thunk and the engine is completely locked up.
I am glad that it happed at this point and not when I was actually trying to start the engine. It wasn't turning fast enough or long enough to do any/much damage.
A bunch of empty seed husks where blown out of the exhaust. I guess a mouse had made a home. I don't know if something might have gotten sucked into a cylinder. Or possibly a ring broke, even though I didn't have to for the engine over at all.
My question, where would you start? Pull the heads? I really wasn't looking for a project at the moment. I would like to get it running. If it requires a full engine rebuild, I will have to put this on hold.
Thanks for your time.
Bruce
I am new to the forum, I will apologize in advance if asking for something that has been fully covered in a previous threads.
Just a little background, a guy posted a dandy little Massey 35 on Facebook for sale. A his Father in Law had passed away and the family was selling his equipment. I went to look at the tractor and made the agreement to buy it.
I was starting to write the check and the Son, said that if I liked tractors there was and old Minneapolis buried in a collapsed shed up in the woods.
There was a pile of rubble covered with Poison Ivy vines. You could see the steering wheel poking out. In what was the front of the building you could see the grill of the tractor and to the side part of a rear wheel.
I bought that tractor too.
I won't say what model. I took a lot of pictures, and I thought it might be fun to post and guess what model the tractor is. I ended up guessing wrong. Once I figure out how to post to the forum I will. Unless you think it is silly and we will skip it.
I thought it was going to be a fun adventure, but 3 hours into it, it became a lot of work.
I got the tractor unburied and finally home. I was playing around with the hand crank and to my surprise the engine was free. I turned the engine over several times by hand. I did not hear any bad noises like metal scraping.
The tractor is in much better shape than I expected. Kind of a time capsule. I took the old battery out and it had the date of October 1978 scratched into the top. I took the starter off cleaned and oiled it.
As I was testing the starter, it was spinning the engine and really just got up to speed when something with thunk and the engine is completely locked up.
I am glad that it happed at this point and not when I was actually trying to start the engine. It wasn't turning fast enough or long enough to do any/much damage.
A bunch of empty seed husks where blown out of the exhaust. I guess a mouse had made a home. I don't know if something might have gotten sucked into a cylinder. Or possibly a ring broke, even though I didn't have to for the engine over at all.
My question, where would you start? Pull the heads? I really wasn't looking for a project at the moment. I would like to get it running. If it requires a full engine rebuild, I will have to put this on hold.
Thanks for your time.
Bruce