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Head came home tonight. All new exhaust valves and one new intake valve that was burned badly. The larger valves are intake valves. New seats installed. New guides also. Milled .010" off to flatten. Intake and exhaust ports were trued also. One minor crack was fixed but I need to investigate where i...

Thanks for the advice. I forgot to mention that the valve seats are being replaced. The shop that is doing the work on the head doesn't cut any corners. It is owned by a man who has a soft spot for old tractors. He will pressure test the head and everything. I supplied new guides also. What is coppe...

Update: Head is at a very reputable machine shop. They found some repairable cracks and are taking care of them. Sounds like I need a few exhaust valves also due to wear. Finally found an engine stand after trying to make one. I have enough steel stock around to make one strong enough for a battlesh...

Sorry for the lack of updates. Suffered a couple of setbacks that only cost me time. I'm still measuring stuff and collecting parts. I will update when I get everything together for the rebuild.

On another note, how do you clean up used pistons?

You've already got the deck, Shelby tubing for the cylinders? If your pistons are no good, find pistons first and make the cylinders to fit. What is Shelby tubing? Welded seam tubing? I'm also trying to find a source for "durabar" which is cast iron bar stock. I wonder how a steel cylinder with a c...

I guess I was under the impression that the deck and cylinder assembly was NOT available at all. An internet search revealed that they are available, just expensive, around $1500. Then I still have to find pistons and rings. I'd rather replace cylinders and pistons if they are available. This tracto...

Has anyone attempted making their own deck and cylinders? They look pretty simple to me and the tooling marks on mine indicate they are not made to nuclear power plant standards. The hardest thing I can see would be acquiring the cast iron for the cylinder bores. I know you can get cast iron rod (or...

Its been quite the holiday weekend. The first image is Friday, the second is Sunday. The last is another surprise I found. http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a618/BJI36/295_zps68e69146.jpg [/URL] [/img] http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a618/BJI36/IMG_0059_zpsab19a340.jpg [/img] http://i1286.phot...

Popped out the pistons and the deck and sleeves and I found pitted cylinder bores. Mostly just stained bores with normal ridges at the ends of the piston travel, but there is enough deeper pitting to require a cylinder boring and enlarged pistons. I have not measured the bores or the piston diameter...

First off, thanks Duke and Lavoy. I have a late model (shifter on floor) 1010 crawler loader. Serial number plate is long gone. Are the loader models 1010C ? As of now, here is my methodology. I see this overhaul in three phases: 1. accessories 2. head 3. block I rebuilt all the accessories and had ...

Had a big setback this weekend. I found out the tired old engine has no compresssion. I could not find anything broken, just worn out. What is the procedure for overhauling these deck and cylinder engines. I do have a service manual. What I am looking for from those that have done it is where is the...

Double post. Sorry, new to posting images.

Mystery solved. Its a welded stud.



Here is what is in back of it:
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Thanks jtrichard. What is a hot start? Is that like jumping the relay with a screwdriver?

Well, here is what I found out. I finally got the dowel pin out, but I had to drill it out. Heat and welding a nut didn't work. I even tried welding a threaded stud to it and rigged up a makeshift puller. I ended up drilling the dowel out. It was soft, possibly from all the welding. At first I drill...