Cleaning and prepping, install has begun

Simpson, my 57 CA, is getting a heart transplant.  This motor popped up a while back, the guy hadn't gotten any offers.  Said it ran strong but came out of a C with a bad rear end and transmission.  Hope it holds up until I get a look at the old one, it developed a serious lower engine knock at Don(MO)'s plow day.

Moved  the U out of sick bay for a bit, and even used the 720 to pull Simpson in to place.

That gantry crane was made special to replace ammonia compressors, it;s narrow to fit between the racks.  It wouldn't fit on the outside of the front tires due to the wheel position locks that somebody mounted on the inside.  The gantry was there just to hold the motor steady, rolled the front axle away with the engine hoist.

SIMPSON IS ALIVE!!!  But not without a couple of glitches.  I moved the whole governor and housing along with the distributor and installed 12v windings in the generator.  I made the mistake of reading my I&T manual to set the timing, would have worked but it would have put the rotor 180 degrees out from all my other AC tractors so I closed the book and did it the way I've always done it and away she went, a little too fast but I don't think it rolled over a full revolution when she fired.  The head is shaped different on Simpson's new motor and was impeding the governor rod so a couple of bends later, she purrs like a kitten.

I did avoid disaster, pulled the plugs out of the new to me motor and what a horror of a sight, put the kibosh on that real quick.

By jumpin jehosaphats my radiator repair worked, finally got around to getting it together tonight and my part worked just fine, however the shaft seal is leaking on the water pump but we're going to give it a few days first.  The baffle slash splash guard or whatever they call it that sits at an angle inside the radiator top tank to keep the water from directly hitting the radiator cap broke loose and had fallen, blocking off about a third of the radiator.  It would slide side to side but covered the entire width of the core so I found a piece of copper pipe the size of the inside diameter of the inlet neck, took my die grinder to it, pushed it inside the and soldered it to the radiator inlet holding the baffle up at the right angle then drilled and screwed it to my newfangled bracket.  Seems to be holding up just fine.  I can only imagine the conversation if and when somebody finds it in the future.