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I have been looking for the JD-227 clutch pressure plate finger height gauge. Lavoy I sent a PM. Maybe it did not go through. Do you still have these for sale? I am assuming a new PP still needs to be checked and set. It looks like the setting is different between the B's and C's I have the H-L-R tr...

I also ordered the break in oil. I did not read the link but when I was looking at buying some, it said do not use for more than 100 hours. And no extended idling. It is better to buy the break in oil than add an additive. You will never find an oil manufacturer that says it is OK to add ZDDP to the...

Time for some more humor. Yes, It does bother me just a tad that my parts are coming from china. Nope don't like that one bit. But when looking at the balancer shafts, this was on the packaging. So the place that made it also has a gem and jewelry division? Apparently there are no R's to be found an...

I picked up the block today. Pretty quick coming from Ohio to Idaho I thought. It is covered inside and out with cosmoline. Lots of it. I have been cleaning with naptha. It cuts it pretty well. I should be done removing all the cosmoline by 2020. :lol: I got the 4219 kit that I am returning. Still w...

Well after hours and hours of research and comparison on the 4239 engine build and will it replace the 4219 engine, I have found it is only some basic parts that need to be changed. Pistons, liners, and rods if a person has the 1.375 piston pins. The turbocharged 4239 piston has a 1.625 pin. I plann...

I am looking forward to Monday morning when I can go measure and examine the 4239 block. I thought I might take the front and rear plates too.
Longest weekend ever....

I am going to remember that quote. Hope you don't mind me using it here and there. :D So my head is spinning... Lots of time spent looking for a fix here. Researching wether the 4239 block is a better stronger replacement and my parts will fit. I found a 4219 block at Farmland tractors in oregon for...

Good call on the ZDDP. I will probably run high zinc and Phos oil all the time. I had not gotten that far to think about oil yet. I run Valvoline VR-1 in a couple late 60's jeeps I have here. It is high ZDDP and needed for cam and wrist pin life. So after several hours on the road today I learned my...

Well I got the motor down to a bare block. I found a broken packing in number 1 cyliner also. Yes the machinist wants the liners before resetting the liner counter bore. He suggested who's parts to buy so I did that. So Lavoy I hope you don't mind me doing that after asking about kits. I measured ev...

I will call the machine shop and ask them. Thanks for that...

Well it looks savable. It just need some machine work. I am going to have the shop take a couple thousandths off the deck and do the liners bores to bring it back to original correct depth in relation to the deck. I will be curious to see if the liner bores are straight. I got to looking at the step...

The cylinder head was lightly surfaced with .003 taken off with my first headgasket. The machinist said it was pretty flat. That would have been the second head gasket since I found the previous owner had done one that also blew right away. So the head gasket I was just about to do would have been t...

Thank you Bruce for your post. I was concerned about thread failure. I will get better threaded shafts later if it does. I have been trying to decide how far to take this repair. Given the slop in the timing gears, the slop in the balance shaft bushings, and the general wear including semi slow buil...

Got home and started in on making a puller that will hopefully last a good long time. If all goes well it will hang there on it's pegboard hook after I am done and get real dusty. :wink: So I made this. Three choices for allthread. A single center if it is not a hard pull, or dual allthread for a to...

Well at the risk of making yet another longer than neccessary post yesterday (I'm good at it :) ) I stopped in and had a 2 hour conversation with the John Deere guy I mentioned was the go to person for John Deeres around here. We talked about JD's and airplanes. He had a couple suggestions on gettin...