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Have an early 1010 gas crawler. When its cold it starts immediately and runs strong. After the engine has been run for more than a few minutes it starts misfiring and backfiring through the exhaust. If I shut it off it won't start again until I let cool down for a long time (several hours). The engi...

I have a 1010 gas crawler with the factory oil bath air cleaner. The metal mesh material inside the air cleaner deteriorated with age. A piece broke away and got sucked into the intake and destroyed the number 1 piston. The new piston was $135 from deere, with the piston ring set and gaskets it was ...

Well, I went out this morning and hooked up the air hose to the sparkplug holes and you were right, I could hear and feel air coming out of the intake manifold. So I took the head off again and this time I removed all of the valves. Every intake valve had these little pieces of metal stuck to valve ...

The cylinder walls look great., Also, when the head was remanufactured 30 hrs ago, the piston walls were honed, and new rings, wrist pins and rod bearings were installed. This was done without removing the engine block from the tractor and the camshaft gear cover was not removed.

The first thing I did when I took the valve cover off before removing the head was confirm the pushrods were opening and closing the valves, also the valve clearance was adjusted when the new head was put on and again when the headbolts were re-torqued. Three of the cylinders make the needle jump a ...

I have a 1010 Crawler, was running it the other day when the engine started running real rough and then quit and would not start. I checked further and found no compression in any of the cylinders. The cylinder head just came back reconditioned from the machine shop 30 hours ago, I pulled the head o...