Hi gang, I've had a busy summer at work and family so I haven't been on the Net much. Just thought I'd say I'm still reading the posts, I particularly like the assembly info Dick L is putting up. I'm starting to put it back together, and this comes in mighty handy. I just got my (new used, not cracked) final drive housings back from the hot tank, prior to installing all new bearings (2 sets of finals, one good bearing and 0 good races between the 16 possibles of each. Ouch!). I power washed my trans, discovered the side cover cracked (explains the drip), and will be pulling the PTo unit to fix the loose mainshaft bearings. I should have just sold the darn thing but at least I now have a lot of neat new tols (including the homemade 2 1/4" wrench for the axle nuts). Now my problems. I put my (rebuilt)head on my B, installed a different (good used) rocker shaft assembly, and discovered that one valve is badly off center to the rocker (like almost to the edge of the rocker). The rocker is up against the pedestal so no way to center it without bending. The wear on the original rocker indicates this was present before the head was rebuilt too. Is this going to be a problem? Also, I dummyed up the valve cover and found one end will sit nice but the other does not compress the gasket at all. I'm planning to put a bead of silicone on top of the gasket and screwing her down, but isn't this unusual? Especially since it had the oil trough underneath the pedestals when I tore it down (I thought this was only present on combine engines but everything else has been swapped around on this '39), and I left it off for reassembly? Lend me your expertise!
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