KaBlamOO

There is a engine my barn like that, except the block doesn't have the hole in it!. I don't know what happened to this engine, someone said the OHV parts sometimes would fall off, and was a easy fix, fellow I got it from thought it had a more serious problem.

Makes you wonder about those stories told about huge radial B-17 engines that had several cylinders shot off during missions and kept running long enough to make it back to base.

musta been sum bad gas!!

A friend used to have a mower repair service. At least once a year he would go on repair calls because "my mower just quit" He'd check the oil, empty. Ask, "when did you last check the oil?" "Oh, you have to put oil in it?"

"If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer"
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Many years ago when I worked in a lawnmower shop, at least twice a year someone would bring a new big box store mower in that "Just quit". It was always obvious, no oil before it quit. Oil was then added after the fact. Nice clean oil and a blue crank pin = no warranty.

"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford

I once had a John Deere 317 that smoked (I prefer Non-Smoking tractors). I sold it to a neighbor As-Is and told him that it needed rings or more. He blew it up and asked if I would rebuild it and said he would pay for parts and my time. I agreed and he towed it over to my house. I opened the hood and saw part of the camshaft laying next to the engine. I took the cam back down to the neighbor and told him that I found the problem and handed him the cam. He said "Boy you sure took that apart fast". I replied "That's the problem, I didn't take it apart yet".

Luckily a friend had a good 17hp Kohler (out of a Deere 317) that needed a coil, we swapped the engine and used the old coil.

Rich Salvaggio
'31 Allis Chalmers U 7143
'46 Willys CJ2A Farm Jeep
'48 Caterpillar D2
Antique Garden tractors
*Other rusty old junk comes & goes without notice

Well give us the final countdown on what the sights and sounds were before Kablammmo?

Ran when parked.

Did Tecumseh go under? I thought I heard that somewhere.

'49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2

That looks like it will take 2 tubes of JB Weld.

Mark

B10 Allis, 917 Allis, 7116 Simplicity, 7790 Simplicity Diesel,
GTH-L Simplicity

Ignorance is curable-----stupidity is not.

this past summer I had some straw that was a little to wet to bail but we never got weather to get it dry so we raked it around for 3 weeks. Big windrows out of the combine and we couldn't use the V rake so we used a couple old sidebar rakes and got to run the little Ford 4000 gas and the Allis D15 a little.

The neighbor and I were driveing the two little tractors down the road to go rake one afternoon, I had my radio headphones on and the little Ford is faster than the Allis on the road, the Ford started to slow down and labor, I leaned over to look down at the carb for some reason and about that time cast iron pieces, rod berring shells and a cloud of oil and smoke came out the side and went past my head.

I never even backed off the throttle, figured it was over with anyway so I may as well try and make it to another neighbors yard. We made it but the noise was terrable and a pretty intense shower of sparks comeing out the side hole as the crank was wipeing the rod. The neighbor behind me on the Allis was laughing so hard he spilled his beer when he seen the parts fly out and me turn around and smile.

Another time with the WC pulling tractor I wound it up to take off and it stuttered, and died, no spectacular show, just a bulge in the block and a bunch of wate and oil came out the bottom. Valve broke in the keeper grove and wiped out the rest of the engine. I managed to save the flywheel and cylinder head. I had good automotive valves, but for some reason the broken one was dark colored across about 75% of the break, may have had a flaw in it when the tips were hardened or something. Blame it on bad luck.

"see what happens when you have no practical experience doing something...... you end up playing with calculators and looking stupid on the internet"

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