Posted by 02XLT4X4 on July 22, 2008 at 17:00:05 from (68.13.22.185):
In Reply to: how stuck is stuck? posted by johndeereman on July 22, 2008 at 12:40:01:
johndeereman said: (quoted from post at 12:40:01 07/22/08) dc tom on the case board has a unique way of doing this he takes another tractor and backs up along side of it and runs a hydraulic hose to a spark plug hole use one that is mid stroke as it will not roll it over tdc or bdc this way
We have done that as well, we use a old two cylinder John Deere that doesn't have a whole lot of pressure though.
Soaking (we use brake fluid) and trying to crank/rock/pull them usually works, we use the hydraulic method as a last resort.
You have to be carefull, but usually it works pretty good. Our only casualty so far was a headgasket on a Oliver 88 diesel, and it was SHOT to start with.
If you have a smoker you pull it apart and fix it, just like you would have if you went down that route to start with. So far aside from the Oliver that sat outside with the exhaust open and had a royally trashed engine to start with out of about 10 tractors they all came out running great.
This post was edited by 02XLT4X4 at 17:01:02 07/22/08.
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