53 Ford tractor rebuild

[BIGNASTY]

Newt

My mules are better looking than the Ford :-laf I usually work the team and the wife works the tractor she loves that old Ford from the first time she got on it right after we got married. She has never complained about no heat but you can tell when its -???? and the wind is blowing snow sideways she would be happy to have a nice warm cab to be in.

I had to chuckle all day about our talk with this, We have a friend and his wife that moved out to live in MT, he and I use to truck way back when I had my own. For the Past week I have seen him and his wife laugh at times and the other day Penny and I were having breakfast coffee they came in and started a little laugh. I asked what gives Dave before I kick you butt??? He said have you two ever really sat down and looked and thought about how you live ? Not really why? he said look at you, Penny is reading the newspaper on a electronic tablet, running a peddle power butter churn and your on the Internet with your Apple laptop pumping a ice cream churn with your good leg. All off of a Satellite Internet connection. Penny is going to make us all breakfast on a wood-fired cook stove and use the microwave to make sure the bacon is hot when the eggs get done. The lights and Power are from a Solar/ wind gen/ propane aux gen set that rivals most in LARGE CITES. When we are done with breakfast your going to take off that peg leg, put in the batteries in a BIONIC leg and walk out to an 1800's era barn harness up some mules and plow with them. You two slide between centuries faster than most people can cope with one technology you've dealt with at least 4 different centuries of technology just getting breakfast done. :-laf

SO

It is kind of weird now that they noticed we have also.

 

[Bill Lins]

You're truly a renaissance man, Big! ;-)

 

[fest3er]

My uncle has an old-ish Case DC. It was making noise and just didn't have any power. So he decided to give it a re-con. At his age, he helped with some of the bulky lifting and fetching tools, but I did most of the work. Pulled the valve cover and found head bolts that were finger-tight, valves that'd been leaking for a long time and one or two broken valve springs. Pulled the head and the cylinders confirmed the story. So we pulled the pistons and rods, used a bead honer to fix the cylinder walls, used 80-grit AlOx sandpaper to clean up the pistons and some crocus cloth to touch up the bearings. Re-assembled it with lots of oil when the head came back (with new rings). After the first cylinder I got the main bearing bolts torqued nearly the same by feel (book never mentioned a torque spec, so I guessed. ) And as we were fighting to get it to start, his daughter and SIL returned from their honeymoon. With him being more familiar with gassers and me years away from them, he soon figgered the distributor was 180 out. Got that turned around and adjusted and it finally fired up, belching blue smoke until the assembly oil burned off. Been running great since. Pull the choke baling twine, toe the switch and it fires up every time. He even re-used the old, well-worn head gasket after putting a few coats of silver spray paint on it. But the DC is only a yard tug these days. (And it only has a hand clutch. ). Like my uncle, it's earned retirement.

What this boils down to is that on motors *that* old, close is good enough. The DC one isn't supposed to turn more than 1200 RPM (in normal operation, but the CIL had it turning 4k-5k where it sounded smooth and clean). A good cast iron welder can probably weld the head. You could pert near JBWeld the crack and it'd be good for another 10 years.

 

[fest3er]

My uncle has an old-ish Case DC. It was making noise and just didn't have any power. So he decided to give it a re-con. At his age, he helped with some of the bulky lifting and fetching tools, but I did most of the work. Pulled the valve cover and found head bolts that were finger-tight, valves that'd been leaking for a long time and one or two broken valve springs. Pulled the head and the cylinders confirmed the story. So we pulled the pistons and rods, used a bead honer to fix the cylinder walls, used 80-grit AlOx sandpaper to clean up the pistons and some crocus cloth to touch up the bearings. Re-assembled it with lots of oil when the head came back (with new rings). After the first cylinder I got the main bearing bolts torqued nearly the same by feel (book never mentioned a torque spec, so I guessed. ) And as we were fighting to get it to start, his daughter and SIL returned from their honeymoon. With him being more familiar with gassers and me years away from them, he soon figgered the distributor was 180 out. Got that turned around and adjusted and it finally fired up, belching blue smoke until the assembly oil burned off. Been running great since. Pull the choke baling twine, toe the switch and it fires up every time. He even re-used the old, well-worn head gasket after putting a few coats of silver spray paint on it. But the DC is only a yard tug these days. (And it only has a hand clutch. ). Like my uncle, it's earned retirement.



What this boils down to is that on motors *that* old, close is good enough. The DC one isn't supposed to turn more than 1200 RPM (in normal operation, but the CIL had it turning 4k-5k where it sounded smooth and clean). A good cast iron welder can probably weld the head. You could pert near JBWeld the crack and it'd be good for another 10 years.

 

[BIGNASTY]

You're truly a renaissance man, Big! ;-)

Mr Lins

I thank you for that!!!, I had to go and look it up to see what I was??? :-laf im not a master of most of what I can do but like the definition said I can do a lot of different things. Sense retirement I have been the following for our use and others in the family. carpenter, electrician, plumber, off grid power installer for Solar, wind, aux gen, cement work, septic tank work, cabinet maker, Finish carpenter, Erector of metal buildings, tile setter, drywall, paint (I hate to paint) wood flooring installer, Roofer (another thing I cant stand) Install vinyl windows , house siding , house foundation work, mechanic (on things that I can still work on) and im sure that im missing one or two but who's counting. I had a pretty good teacher he didn't say to much and didn't tell me how and why, but when I figured out to shut up and keep my eyes open I really learned a lot for my Dad the thing that I found that Pi**ed him off the most was when I had a tool ready to hand him BEFORE he asked for it :-laf he asked what you some kind of smart a** or something?



Again Thanks

BIG

 

[BIGNASTY]

My uncle has an old-ish Case DC. It was making noise and just didn't have any power. So he decided to give it a re-con. At his age, he helped with some of the bulky lifting and fetching tools, but I did most of the work. Pulled the valve cover and found head bolts that were finger-tight, valves that'd been leaking for a long time and one or two broken valve springs. Pulled the head and the cylinders confirmed the story. So we pulled the pistons and rods, used a bead honer to fix the cylinder walls, used 80-grit AlOx sandpaper to clean up the pistons and some crocus cloth to touch up the bearings. Re-assembled it with lots of oil when the head came back (with new rings). After the first cylinder I got the main bearing bolts torqued nearly the same by feel (book never mentioned a torque spec, so I guessed. ) And as we were fighting to get it to start, his daughter and SIL returned from their honeymoon. With him being more familiar with gassers and me years away from them, he soon figgered the distributor was 180 out. Got that turned around and adjusted and it finally fired up, belching blue smoke until the assembly oil burned off. Been running great since. Pull the choke baling twine, toe the switch and it fires up every time. He even re-used the old, well-worn head gasket after putting a few coats of silver spray paint on it. But the DC is only a yard tug these days. (And it only has a hand clutch. ). Like my uncle, it's earned retirement.

What this boils down to is that on motors *that* old, close is good enough. The DC one isn't supposed to turn more than 1200 RPM (in normal operation, but the CIL had it turning 4k-5k where it sounded smooth and clean). A good cast iron welder can probably weld the head. You could pert near JBWeld the crack and it'd be good for another 10 years.

We went ahead and got the New head and had the hardened valves , guides, seats put in, Im working on putting a hand clutch on it so I CAN drive it if I have to but need time in the shop, with the work schedule that I have been keeping of late I don't know when im going to have time to work on it much. I have driven it I just slide the good leg over and do it that way but wouldn't want to get to close to something that I want in one piece. It runs great fired on the first try went ahead and rebuilt the carb, generator and added some lights for the wife to see better in the Early AM. She's happy so IM happy that seems to be the way it works around here anyway.