I can relate. A few years back I had finished restoring a '48 Super A for a friend and had started it up in the garage after a complete rebuild. It ran like a top and after about 10 minutes I ran in the house to call Paul so he could hear his baby running again. When I got back out to the garage with Paul on the line the first thing I heard was a deafening silence. "I'll call you back"..... It had stopped cold and I could not budge it with the starter or the hand crank. I dropped the pan and started to methodically look for the cause, expecting the worst of course. Everything was free until I got to the governor/distributor. It turned out that a piece of casting flash, probably dislodged by the block cleaning process, found it's way between the governor pinion and the new babbitted bearing that it runs in. That small gear had a ton of mechanical advantage and stopped the engine dead. It wasn't the worst thing that it could have been and one new bearing later, I was back in business. If the link works you can take a look at the damage to the bearing.
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Today's Featured Article - More Memories of a Field Service Engineer - by Brian Dye. Introduction: The author worked for one of the largest Ford tractor dealerships in England as a trouble-shooter on tractor engines, hydraulics and combine harvesters from 1963 to 1972. In 1972 he became a dealer manager and finally left the dealer net in 1975 to run his own electronic design and manufacturing company. [Editor] We live right in the middle of Norfolk. The dealership that I worked for sold Fordson Tractors from the 1920's and some of t
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