When I bought this CA earlier this summer, Walt told me that it gets coolant in the oil over the winter. I am assuming some liner O-rings are shrinking in the cold and letting coolant down into the oil. He also told me that he had the head off to replace something in it awhile back (like 10 years ago) and one of the liners lifted up when he turned the crankshaft. Well, that could certainly be the culprit. I told him I could pop it apart and just replace the O-rings like I did on dad's B, but he said "No, its time to go through the whole motor again". Fair enough, it will be a nice winter project.
I have been watching it all summer, and there hasn't been any coolant in the oil as of yet.
I have also given up on "Indian summer" to get my leaves done. They are just snowed in for the year, we will see them again come spring.
Might as well pop the motor out and get it downstairs, put the tractor in storage, and get my pickup back in the garage for the winter.
Drained the coolant. Looks nice and green in the radiator, but is nasty brown/black on the bottom.
Removed the hood, muffler, air cleaner, radiator hoses, choke rod, fuel line, throttle rod, and wire harness.
Found this wire hanging out under the hood. My first guess is its for headlights and it goes to this stud as kind of a junction block?
I was going to leave the radiator in place, but the lower mount is in the way to get at the four nuts that hold the pedestal onto the motor. I could have maybe got in there with a wrench or flex socket, but I just removed it, less chance of it getting damaged that way.
I didn't know it was the cover for the steering as well.
Hung the pedestal with a comealong,
Put my custom engine lifting bracket on. Its drilled for both 125 CI and 201 CI studs, so I can use it on B, C, CA, WC, WD, and WD45 engines, maybe more.
Eased the pedestal forward, after I took the belt off for clearance.
And swung the motor out. In retrospect, when I go back together, I am going to take the extra 3 seconds and knock the steering arm apart to make more room. The long throttle rod fought the entire process and may have gotten tweaked a little.
Chopped up a piece of frame rail to make this little contraption for pulling engines on tractors that don't have frame rails.
It needs to be refined, but it will work for now.
The neighbor stopped over and asked if he could borrow a screwdriver, so I had him grab one end of the two wheeled cart and we made the journey down the stairs with the engine.
This project deserves a nice fresh piece of cardboard!
Put my chain hoist in the floor joists again, and up on the table it goes.
Upon outward inspection, the foot clutch looks pretty good as far as lining goes. And the bolts look new.
So there is this winters project. Took the tractor and put in storage next to the camper and the WC. Time to hibernate for the year, unless we start cutting popple again!
Thanks for looking!
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