gwstang

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What happens when a rod cap is put on the wrong side! It makes turning the crank much harder. I guess I looked at number four the wrong way and installed it bass-awkward. It turns much easier when everything is installed correctly. :oops: I should be able to put the oil pan on tomorrow and get my oldest son to help me install the valves. One thing I have learned on this go-round is valves assemblies are much easier if one has another pair of hands to help. Nothing like having the screwdriver slip off when compressing the valve in the block and the whole shebang goes poooiinnnnggggg off into the dark recesses of the shop...lol I am praying this rebuild will go much better than the last time around. If it doesn't...I keep whispering to the old gal that I'm gonna take that super duper Kubota I have parked in the barn with four wheel drive and a nice FEL and shove the whole thing off into the woods to let trees grow up into the recesses so I can post pics for sweetfeet, years from now...lol. :D
 
lol
happens to everyone sometimes. The people that it doesn't happen to.......are lying :)

Nurture the obsessive-compulsive part of your soul.
Check it when you are doing it, check it when finished,....as you are standing there before final cover assembly....let it eat at you...and crawl under and check it again!
 
(quoted from post at 04:37:27 05/10/16) lol
happens to everyone sometimes. The people that it doesn't happen to.......are lying :)

That's not true! There are lots and lots of folks too smart to mess with old tractors and engines!

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 05:36:32 05/10/16)
(quoted from post at 04:37:27 05/10/16) lol
happens to everyone sometimes. The people that it doesn't happen to.......are lying :)

That's not true! There are lots and lots of folks too smart to mess with old tractors and engines!

Rick

Sometimes, I wish I was one of them there smart people! :?

Still, there is nothing quite like riding an older Ford tractor with a finishing mower humming behind it. Kind of reminds me of when I use to ride motorcycles....some kind of a feeling of being completely free of the mundane issues of life. :)
 
it happens, just part of the job, the best thing is that you caught the mistake before you fired the engine up, that would have been bad!
 
gwstang, I have pulled dozens of them out of fence rows for 1 reason or another. Earlier in life they were sold for parts, now they just go to the scrap, probably end up in China. Good luck with it.
 

Nah, this one won't go for parts. It's like an old friend...just needs a good talking to occasionally. Sort of funny though, the whole tractor is worth more than the sum of the parts...at least to me.
 
(quoted from post at 22:40:09 05/10/16)
Nah, this one won't go for parts. It's like an old friend...just needs a good talking to occasionally. Sort of funny though, the whole tractor is worth more than the sum of the parts...at least to me.
Some people really hate the N series Fords.
So much so that they will spend their hard earned money just
to buy them and scrap them. At least that's the story they tell.
I wouldn't invest much stock in that story. ;)
 
On the next one install the valve train in the engine first confirm the valve's seal. Once valve seal is confirmed move to the crank instillation.

A old habit of mine is to make my own marks using a file are a cutting disc :wink: On a inline engine I always mark them on the camshaft side of the engine. I have stamped them only to find after I had the engine cleaned its was a battle to find the stamp marks :x
 

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