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onefarmer · Mar 25, 2016

I have success! Polished the rod journal, cleaned the daylights out of it and the oil passage, lubed, put it together, and ran it for 20 minutes!

Every time it changed tone the slightest bit I held onto something but it kept going!

Gotta retorque the head and finish assembly and wait for dry weather to break it in.

JD John · Mar 25, 2016

Ya better go buy a lotto ticket! HE HE Whats the saying "I would rather be lucky than good" It is always nice to have good luck on your side.

Janicholson · Mar 25, 2016

Whew! Though it seemed like a disaster, It turned out OK. Best of continued fortune. Jim

fixerupper · Mar 25, 2016

Well that's good news for sure. I'll bet you will be cautiously listening for quite awhile. Last one I had sieze on me was a Flathead Willys engine in an old civil defense generator. I had not indexed the generator armature to the crankshaft right and it vibrated and took the rear main bearing. Crank had to be ground, put it back together, fired it up and just as it started slowing down and seizing again I shut it down. It only took the bearing shell that time. There was no timing marks on the armature or crank. Too long of a story to continue. Glad you got it solved. Jim

onefarmer · Mar 25, 2016

"I'll bet you will be cautiously listening for quite awhile."

It'll probably take half the summer or even a year before I fully relax.

David G · Mar 25, 2016

I wish you well, but based off two failures on the same rod, I would be cautious.

Mark - IN. · Mar 25, 2016

Great for you and I hope it all works out. I hate to say it but change the oil and filters at half intervals until its broken in, and run the old oil through a screen checking for metal. The oil you take out? Use it in an oil heater in the barn so you get your money's worth.

Much good luck.

Mark

onefarmer · Mar 25, 2016

First failure was a rod bolt that came out. I hear it's fairly common on this engine. JD404T. Rod was replaced

redtom · Mar 25, 2016

You are much different than me! I would be too scared to scream "success" this soon on the chance it would jinx me.

01gentdc · Mar 25, 2016

so far so good ,,,. perhaps thinner oil will help break in,, if wiser minds agree ,..

vscummins · Mar 25, 2016

I always change the oil on a rebuild after the first hour or two then run it maybe a day and change it again then run maybe quarter the interval and do it again might cost for some oil but I like to make sure I have any contamination out of the system especially if a part has blown up in the system before the repair

Rex in Australia · Mar 26, 2016

Well done, give it some work and change the oil like the others suggest.
Good to hear that it's going again
Rx

vscummins · Mar 26, 2016

What model tractor is this in

onefarmer · Mar 26, 2016

JD4430

ed will · Mar 26, 2016

Hi onefarmer, good on you! Happy Easter! Ed Will Oliver BC

rrlund · Mar 26, 2016

Can you put it on the grinder mixer or something to work it now instead of risking having it take a dump in the field when you really need it?

mite-help · Mar 26, 2016

It can & probably will be just fine. reminds me of a IH cab-over truck I worked on years ago. owner/operator had just done in-frame o/haul on a cummins [250/290 if I recall in those days]. Lost a rod bearing after pulling out of shop to the trailer for reasons unknown. I was called to help, just knew upper main shell was wrong. real tricky on that engine. all ok. crank looked sad at first, but polished/mic fine. replaced bearing,rod bolts/nuts, did some torque rechecks, all was fine for a lot of trips. I really didn't know what to blame that one on.

David G · Mar 26, 2016

Put it on a dyno for 10 hours, then get oil sample run.

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