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Any of you rebuilding an engine this winter

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JOCCO

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Well of any kind, in a tractor, truck, make brake or motorcycle?? For me I had to do some work to a dodge truck so the 318 is on the stand. Also have some saws and a Maytag engine to finish. Any of you horded up engine tools over your lifetime you know the valve grinder in the corner the piston press under the bench?? thanks to all that reply.
 
We bought an Allis Chalmers CA a couple months ago. Stuck motor. Pulled head. Got Atf poured in on 2 pistons. no movement. So it's a rebuild. Finished new barn this week. Now the tractor.
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I have a JD 1020 in the shop right now that has new sleeves and pistons and a rebuilt head etc. Been working on it on and off now for a couple months. Just got it back on all 4 tires today
 
Got a 53 ford flathead 8 on the stand, bored, crank turned, new pistons and valves, waiting on adjustable lifters to come. Got a 52 flathead 8 tore apart, crank is at the machine shop to be turned, bore and all new parts as money comes in. Fairbanks morris Z-D apart, waiting on valves, neighbors got a allis IB that's set for years, needs tank cleaned, jobs like that pay for my things to mess with.
 
I guess it depends on how the little four-banger holds up in my beater 99 Civic... my mechanic/co-worker thinks the knock on start-up is from a cracked piston or wrist pin issue. With 150K miles on it, it isn't worth much as is, so I'm gonna run it till it drops. May have to try my hand at fixing a rice burner for the first time...hope I have enough metric tools around
 
I have a Deere ZTR that needs a new engine. Going to wait a couple months to spend the money. I may talk to someone about rebuild costs. I think it has a broken rod and it had been using quite a bit of oil for my dad. He gifted it to me.
Grandpa Love that looks like a mancave with tractor storage below.
I worked with a guy 40 years ago that thought he needed a 3 car garage with living quarters above it. I haven't heard from him for decades.
 

Just finished rebuilding and installing a 5.9 Cummins in my F-450.
Got plenty of work to do on a few tractors but not much engine work, 4500 needs the axle trumpets pulled for brakes, 4000 needs the lift top pulled and reworked, may also need a hyd pump, 6610 needs the radiator pulled and cleaned before hay season, 5000 needs axle seals and there's a whining noise coming from the engine, I need to drop the oil pan and check the bearings in the counter balancer.
I am looking at another 5000 with a locked up engine but it will be at the back of the line, so most likely won't be a winter project, at lease not this winter anyway.
 
My wife says the upstairs will become a mancave. It's closed in. But nowhere near done. But tractors are all dry now.
 
Rebuilding a 426 Diesel for a D17. It has crank issues. Have to take a good engine from a L2 combine first. Need the crank from it. But might just use block as is.
 
does a John Deere 420 count? Not much of a motor, but if you went by the price of parts you would think it was a big block.
 
630 John Deere have head and radiator getting done now. Block will leave when I get new pistons ordered.
 
I have two K Kohlers to go through and also a couple CS Listers. Yes we have gathered engine tools as shops went out of buisiness. Started boring and installing sleeves for the hit miss crowd a few years ago and also have a crank grinder sitting in the shop that I haven't had ti.e to learn how to use.
 
6.5 diesel with blown head gasket. Going to pull it and may roll some bearings into it if it doesn't look to bad, but don't want to stick too much money into it.
 
B John Deere I desperately want to get done and out the door whenever the machine shop gets the head done.
 
I am overhauling two Fordson Dexta tractors. One has a blown head gasket, but is requiring new liners, pistons and bearings along with a new radiator. I have triple checked the liners and came to realize that the Perkins type flanged liners may fit with just a counter bore on the top. Before I thought the replacement liners were of a larger diameter, but they apparently are not.

The second Dexta may need a complete overhaul. The maximum oil pressure drops below 10 psi after about 35-45 minutes of mowing.I won't know until I drop the oil pan and check the oil pump and bearing clearances. It smokes a little so I may go ahead and do the top and bottom.

I had gotten both of these more than a year and a half ago, but I knew they were going to need more than a little TLC.

I had also acquired a used but sound Dexta block that had spun a bearing. I just finished checking out the main bearing saddles and block top and the are fine (That one I sweated out). I had to get a new crankshaft, because it is almost as cheap as having one ground these days.

The only problem now is we are repeatedly getting hit with rain and I don't like working in wet weather unless the building is dry and warm which it is not.
 

Grandpa, congrats on the barn! Have you been working in the cold up 'til now? Nice straight 900 you have there. But you are living dangerously I hope you know. With a narrow front and your rears set in the way they are, and on such a steep side hill as you have, it will tip over on you as soon as you let the clutch out. At least that is what I have read many times here on YT? This is one of mine, it hasn't rolled over yet.:wink:
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I might take engine out of cub cadet 123 and see if the harmonic balancer is working, it shakes real bad.
 
Replaced the block in the Farmall MD this week. Also replaced the sleeves, rings, and rod bearings.
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With any luck I won't have to. I did my rebuilding in 2016. This winter I'm re doing the back end of my 212 N.I. manure spreader, The beater teeth are worn down pretty bad so I'm making new ones.
 
Last time I run my 29D john Deere I was getting water in the right cylinder after I shut it down. Finally pulled the head looking for a crack. Can't find a crack, but the head gasket didn't look very good. Will grind the valves with the old Black And Decker valve grinder under the bench.
 
I keep hearing that the 960 will
roll easy. we just more careful with
it. Had a mild winter so far. Only
4-5 nights below freezing (so far).
Barn was 1 story boat house 40 miles
away. Guy gave it to me. Took it
apart moved it here, added 2nd floor
and lean-to on each side. One lean
to was a camper shed other was my
boat storage. Took em apart and
moved em. Lots of used and left over
material from work (we build decks
for a living). Total money spent
1100 bucks. New roof tin and 2nd
floor siding. Lots of help from my
wife. Kids not so much. Lol.
 
Ive got an M5 MM I have a part for an overhaul but still gathering parts. Have to build some splitting stands for a clutch job in 2 different tractors and a couple of other projects, so hopefully I will get to it soon.
 
23 HP Kawasaki out of my ZTR.
The parts are going to the machine shop in half an hour.
 
Nope, no engine rebuild this winter. I sure would like to though, after i get a proper shop built. Too often far too cold snowy or wet to build anything in winter here, or to fix anything that isn't fatally broken and needed "right now". Also too busy come spring/summer/autumn to take on anything that isn't fatally broken and needed "right now". This isn't how I WANT it to be, but it's just the way it seems to be until I can get the better half to agree to scale back rather than "kick it up a notch" every year. Not sure which is getting old faster: me, or having a list (and a tax bill) that keeps putting me further behind.
 
Need to finish putting together my Harley Panhead engine then go through a 1978 Harley Sportster XLCR that I bought in Sept. When I get those done I plan on putting together my 1958 MGA roadster that I bought in April of 1967 and took apart in 1974, it has been waiting long enough. Need to do something in retirement.
 
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