Posting picture for Mitch

ohh what do you know, its an incomplete tractor with an orange engine, wow i am impressed went to all that work just to try and prove himself. tell him next time he should play with the camera so its not sideways

lets see some video of it running

mattb wrote: lets see some video of it running

sure when I left shop Mitch was building starter for it he says he is going to dyno it next week will post video when he does.

Someone spent 4 years telling me that my old billet main cap assembly wasn't necessary and has now tried to make a crude copy, I wonder why?    Or someone thought you had to weld gobs of junk to a front pulley to externally balance an engine now figured out that the engine is internally balanced and has used a neutral balanced front balancer........cute.


I bet they took notes on air induction technology too.........wait I rember the comment that extra tubes in the head weren't necessary or that his machine shop could get a block to hold water. Funny.

I thought billet rods were junk........we covered this.


I guess my apprentice has been paying attention. How flattering. Send checks my way.....machine shop work is easy, but it's low margin. It's the design work that pays. Just rember, I built mine as a kid out of high school.....

Seriously though enough with the crap. Good luck. You've finally paid enough attention that you may just have an engine that runs thanks to me.......   

Edited by wi50 - 08 Apr 2014 at 6:35am

Well wi I guess Mitch messed it up for sure when I was at his shop i checked the harmonic balancer the weight was on the back side he must have put it on back wards the spacer so the crank will turn an not hit the oil pan

they dont pay me 135k a year to spell

With that kind of money you should of planned better and be in Florida now and not working like me.

guess TVA is in a yearly outage now ?  What you working, 6- 10s ?

If this EVER runs, can you post where he bought the engine from? 
I was thinking it might not run long with all the oil drained to the side but maybe it's a SPECIAL Tennessee sidehill puller?????

I think I'll just sit back and watch this one unfold! lol

naw steve the outages just last 28 to 35 day if we are lucky we have one in the spring and one in the fall but most years just have one and guys I am not Pankey just go check out my face book

as for the engine when it runs i vid it and post

Being I was reading on YT a week or so ago and Mitch was wanting a dyno challenge, engine buildoff and I made him aware that there is an event scheduled, coming up in August and not far from you boys. I have not heard back yet if he will be in attendance yet......

Make sure to ask him for us. There's plenty of time to apply for an extra day of vacation. Or at least make up some excuses as to why he won't show up at what he wanted.

Please rember these items when you look into the mirror on Monday and ask that bi-polar personality. Report back shortly.

mgburchard wrote:

video of first time cranking tn stud

How convenient the pictures are gone now... the Tn scud must have lit off, probably into the side of spank-me's shop of horrors. Hope the gleason is ok....