Kingdom gets more hp.

Well, I finally got my 400 done and outside.






I had gone through the motor years ago, but saved $300 at the time and didn't plane the block, so it wouldn't hold a head gasket. Since that engine is hard to get parts for, and it's parts are valuable, I decided to swap out the engine for a 301 from a combine and sell the 400 engine. The 301 is the engine that is in an 830. Took more than I thought to make it work including modifying both manifolds. The exhaust had to have the ports enlarged, I did that with a die grinder.




The intake manifold had a knob on top that hit the exhaust, so I had to cut it off and patch the hole. I then had to braze on the elbo as well since I had to cut off one of the bolts that held it on.












Once I got that all together it started and ran good. It wasn't til I tried to drive it that I remembered that the throw out bearing was bad. So I had to split it again to fix it. Of course the carrier was also bad, so I got a new one of those. Sadly it was a bit different and even tho it looked like it would work it didn't, so I had to repair the original by building it up with weld and having it turned down. No pics of that tho. And it took another split because I had to readjust the fingers. Oh well, anything worth doing is worth doing twice. Lol.
Anyway, I took a pic of the 400, DC, and 830 while I had them out.




Then it was back in the shed to wait for spring.






I moved the 830 to the project bay, it has com issues that need attention before spring.





No work on the corn planter this weekend because the 400 took so much time. Hopefully I'll get to it this week.

Now I know why it has a Bosch in-line pump

Just being curious. Would you not have been time and money ahead to just take that 400 block and have it decked and put a head gasket on it and not have to worry about all that exhaust fab work.

No, I paid less for the engine than the machine work that would have been required, that's without gaskets and seals. Plus it's quite a bit more power, and I will get quite a bit for the old engine.

Brad Pasley made a hit song about getting a little mud on the tires. Perhaps you could get out your guitar and sing a song about your episodes in preparing to get some snow on your wheels.
Looks good Jon. I'll give you a holler on the phone, later this week.
Loren

Looks great Jon!

Gee I was hoping you got another tractor, something decent this time like A Ford or JD...... :lol: :lol:

Rick

Nice work!

A Ford maybe. We had a jubilee
on the farm and one of those
wouldn't hurt me too much. Lol

I'm surprised how much bigger the 830 looks then the 400 in that one picture.

the one of it in the barn is with his 1030

ditchwitch I had wondered the same thing but I?ve been known to take on a project where at the end I think to myself with all the time and money I put into this did I really come out ahead ?