My dead WD45 last week
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Topic: My dead WD45 last week
Posted By: R Aiken
Subject: My dead WD45 last week
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 4:22pm
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Last week when it was so hot I started on this 45 because it was under a shade tree. I got it from a frend that let the engine get stuck. He did put it halfway in a barn. I took the head off and one cylinder had a halfinch of rust , another just light rust and two were clean. In about four houres I had it turning over. The head had one valve seat pitted real bad, had to have it ground at a machine shop. $30. I put it back togather with a new head gasket, cleaded the carb, sedement bowl, gastank, points and sparkplugs. It starter the first try, had to readjust one valve a little. The old gas in the tank would only half of it would burn where I dumped it. It holds water, good oil presure , no leaks, and the hydrolis works.
I cant tell what all I did to this tractor because none of it would be aproved by a real mechantic.
Some pictures
Now I will have to get the good tires and some fenders off the pile and get it finished.
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Posted By: BobHnwO
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 5:38pm
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Good job Richard!!!
------------- Why do today what you can put off til tomorrow. |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 6:34pm
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Richard you can fix them the way you want they are your tractors!
I don't post all the off the wall ways I get my tractors back in the field.lol
Good job!!!
Don ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: olivershagnasty
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 6:44pm
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Richard - all I want to know is what did you use to cut through the rust in the cylinders?
Shagnasty
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Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 6:47pm
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Hey Richard - based on the Build-a-B project, I'd say that you'd qualify as a 'real' mechanic any day! ------------- WC, CA, D14, WD45 |
Posted By: Leonard
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 7:17pm
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Great job Richard. I am constantly amazed how well the engineers and designers at Allis Chalmers thought through their designs. Kinda like a timex watch, takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Leonard |
Posted By: R Aiken
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 7:40pm
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olivershagnasty wrote:Posted By: Chris (swIA)
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 7:50pm
| Richard, apparently your standards are much higher than mine when it comes to fenders. Personally, I wouldn't know what to do with fenders that have the back corners. Mine have been long since removed by tire chains. |
Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 10:10pm
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Chris, mine haven't exactly been removed - just sorta folded in on themselves. Not sure what the tractor was used for, but both fenders and the seat were toast when I bought it. ------------- WC, CA, D14, WD45 |