Posted by SweetFeet on November 27, 2013 at 04:51:35 from (70.35.103.74):
Well, not the trunk... but the water part of the engine block. Looks to me like a great reason to do a complete tear-down when getting an old tractor up and running.
Thought these photos might be interesting to some who have never dug into a tractor that is over 80 years old... and has sat out in the woods for over 40 years exposed to the elements. (Feel free to add pics of your rusty-crusty tractor to this post.)
I have never watched the restoration process of an old tractor engine because my husband did his other 4 tractors before we got married.
Recently he started cleaning up the engine block... came in the house and said, "Grab your camera, I'm going to do something with the Regular that you might find interesting."
I was amazed at all the crud that came out of that old beast (rust, lime-scale, even parts of acorn shells as it had a hole in the valve cover and a "scrat" live in there).
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