Posted by Seth Boyer on December 06, 2009 at 13:57:54 from (69.179.106.123):
In Reply to: push rod posted by Lloyd Sorlien on December 06, 2009 at 13:45:04:
From my experiance the tappet may have been loose. I rebuild the motor on my H and ran it a lot for a month or so but never got it out and really worked it. I made a 15 mile trip taking the tractor to my grandfathers and when I was about a mile from his house I had a valve stick. Not knowing what the problem was at first we pulled it to his house from there. Got the valve unstuck and took it out and with a mile I had the same problem (so I thought) Got it back home and found that a pushrod had jumped out from the tappet.
When I first had the problem with the stuck valve I adjusted the tappet clearance cold at .020. After I had the pushrod jump out I set them at .017 hot like the manual calls for and I haven't had any problems since.
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