Thanks everyone; you may have me convinced I'm yet again just paranoid considering the expected use of this machine.
I know replies get confusing with some of us in modern and some classic view: so I'll go backward order in modern view.
Teddy, I think the others know the history of this tractor from other threads, but I'll gladly bore them for a second to bring this thread into perspective, my understanding is:
this tractor was used for all the plowing and heavy work on [rough guess] a couple hundred acres until the 70s; then until the early 80's used on the silo blower and misc, when the governor broke. It ran wide open for a minute or so until they shut it down. Didn't seize, but despite pulling the covers off never got around to fixing the governor. Turned it over maybe once a year (outside catching some rain in the selector plate, also the manifold was rather attractive to mice) for a couple years keeping it loose but sticking nearly all the valves open. After a few years (and somewhere in that time frame rusted the cylinders stuck), it was pulled into a lean-to type shed and sat until this fall when they asked if I could fix it.
Rod bearings on #2 & #3 scored enough that chunks of babbit were ripped out. Alderson had a set quite a bit cheaper than the babbit work (even without figuring another $100 or so for new wrist pin bushings) to redo them all (I could have perhaps melted babbit into the rips and hand scraped them, but that's an art I've never tried) at a local babbit shop, so I went with Alderson's set.
The expected use of this tractor will be "parade" in hours, but much of that will be on a thresh machine, plow, ect. So niether the intense short durations of tractor pulls, nor all day of constant work; however not absent some heavy loads either. Right before ordering a complete overhaul kit, I found it'd be more like a couple threshing shows, and a little Sunday driving, rather than every show in the state originally bounced around. I still found a pretty good deal instead on 3 NOS sleeves/pistons, so am taking the best one of the old ones (less than .015 wear on the sleeve) and tossing new rings on that.
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