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Hey guy's thanks for all the good information. The fella that rebuilt my pump told me he set the pump up for the TDC installation. He did tell me to make sure the pump shaft was lined up dot to dot, he showed me the inside of the pump and told me the dot on the shaft should be in the same orientatio...

Thanks for the reply, I have not had much time to work on my project lately. But I have not gotten it running yet. I will give that a try soon. Thanks again!

Well I finally got back out to my crawler project this afternoon. I turned it over periodically, stopping for 10min in-between cranking for around an hour and a half with no luck on it firing up. The crawler still turning over hard puffing white smoke out

Thanks for the reply! It puffs out white smoke from what I can tell. I didn't mention in my post but thank goodness I have a new starter. I will try to turn it over periodically this afternoon again and see if it will crank. I hope the compression is good. I purchased a book on the machine but it do...

Hello, I am new to the site, I purchased a 1972 John Deere 450B crawler dozer a few weeks ago. It was not running when I purchased it but the seller did turn the engine over to show me it was not locked up l. When I got the dozer home I noticed the fuel filter with the glass bowl was empty so I pull...