AII combine engine

glad you found something reasonable.  i wasnt aware agco still supplied parts for these.  I have a complete 230 i pulled from a salvage combine, i considered contacting you but i couldnt guarantee what it was like inside.

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Thanks Joel, you are a big help. It had a stuck ex valve that found the top of #3 piston. Buda used  power crater pistons in lots of Allis Chalmers combines/tractors.

The engine saga continues. Friday nighr I Pulled th engine off the combine to replace piston and rings. Pulled the pan. Started to decarbon the top of the sleeve. Found a broken sleeve. Got upset and was about to scrap the comibne.

Earlier these I had found an engine out in middle Kansas off a straight A combine. Saturday morning, dad (Don MO) and I took off for Chapman Ks. Got out there pulled the plugs. Engine had little to no cylinder pressure. Pulled the rocker lever cover. Rolled engine over all the valves moved. So nothing was stuck. Loaded it in the back of the truck. Back to Missouri we came.

After we unloaded it. I pulled the plugs. Put oil in the cylinders. Did a full tune up one the engine. Tried to start it. It would hit. Miss and die. Dad and I screwed around trying different stuff trying to get it running. Dad stuck his hand over the carberator inlet. It has very little vaccum. I said screw we will pull the intake manifold off tomorrow and replace the gaskets. Thinking it was leaking from them. I called my agco parts man. He had an intake gasket. Plus some other odds and ends i needed. He was going to by close. We met up and got the parts.

This afternoon. We went though pulled the manifold off. Low and behold there the 3 intake ports were full of mud dobber nests. Cleaned them out. Manifold was full and muffler was full of mud dobber nests. Cleaned manifold. Replaced the muffler with a new one. Set the timing after finding tdc#1 marking front pulley and jt still wouldnt start. Fuel would run out of the carb if you choked it long enough. Had good vaccum. Found that the distributor was sticking and the dwell was wrong. Replaced distributor out if blown up engine. Reset points. Timing. Checked dwell. All is well. Still would start. Took carb apart. Found some water in the bowl. Cleaned and blew out jets. Reassembled. Put carb on engine crank and cranked. Spit sputter and die. At this point im
I think back to the three tions. Carberation, ingnition, and compression you will have combustion. So i pull the plugs back out. They are carbon full of crap. Cleaned them put them back in. Spit sputter die. Pull the plugs back out. Full of crap again. Dad said must if fot carried away with the seafoam in the gas tank. It took 8 ties of cleaning the crap out out of the plugs to get it to run. You would not believe the crap that came out of the exhaust once it was running and it was still missing. Cleaned plugs once more and it ran perfect. Idles perfect. Good oil pressure very little to no blow by.

This thing tested dad and I's patients.

Next weekend get it on the combine. Be ready for chapter 2

Bobby.

Bob,

Patience is a virtue. I found over the years....... well, for example, I've gotten mad, gave my hammer a fling out into the woods. What did that gain me? A walk in the woods looking for my hammer. You'll wreck more things when you're mad. I learned from an older neighbor of mine. That man has patience. When he works on something and it isn't going right, he'll stop, sip some coffee, light a cigarette and think on it. I've learned a lot from him......... well cept the smoking and coffee.

Glad to hear it worked out well.  Now I know why my half a$$ attempts at starting didnt work, LOL.

It is an "AII" all the way, remember that two row head I got from you years ago, it might go back to work on the old Gleaner if all go's right. This old AII is going to get one good refit and put back to work side by side with my older "A" shelling corn, cutting beans and grass seed in little fields the big boys can't get in. 

Progess as of today on this project

https://youtu.be/EL1IDm8Lzus

Edited by Bradleytrench - 21 Oct 2018 at 6:29pm

Looks like it’s ready to get in the field! Get it on tape running in a crop!

Edited by Michael Crowe - 21 Oct 2018 at 8:40pm

Great job guys getting that combine functional again! Looks like its ready! Have fun in the field Bobby !

Great job...that thing looks good!  Thanks for sharing.

Great videos! I, too, would love to see videos when you get it to the field. I'm partial to the A/AII machines. 

We hope the rain holds off, Its not looking good here to the north.
Wow that old belt looks good!
Albert

Hated to do this buuutttttt. I was tired of fighting rust and the engine dying. Im going to see if i can make it down the road to the field now. Hoping for a video soon