5040 rebuild/restoration advice
Printed From: Unofficial Allis
Category: Allis Chalmers
Forum Name: Farm Equipment
Forum Description: everything about Allis-Chalmers farm equipment
URL: https://www.allischalmers.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=203346
Printed Date: 23 Nov 2024 at 1:37am
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.10 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: 5040 rebuild/restoration advice
Posted By: cdhendrix
Subject: 5040 rebuild/restoration advice
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2024 at 12:50pm
| I'm looking for any advice or tips in regards to the 5040. I bought one before it went to the scrap yard. It rolls and the engine turns over by hand. It's missing all 3 injectors and the fuel tank. |
Replies:
Posted By: tbran
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2024 at 8:57am
|
Don't get to deep. The engines are Fiat - 5040 5045 5050 and Long 360 2360 2460 Oliver and others . Front grills really tough to find. Lots of cheap salvage - do the research. I would be hesitant to go into an engine and expect $$$... There were different types of pistons in the same engines and thing like that. . ------------- When told "it's not the money,it's the principle", remember, it's always the money.. |
Posted By: cdhendrix
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2024 at 7:16am
| I didn't pay much for it. My initial intention is to just get it running again then go towards a full restoration. I'm not really concerned about how much money I have to spend. This is a passion project of mine. |
Posted By: tbran
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2024 at 2:47pm
|
The Romanians were passionate as well when they put their President and his wife up against the Tractor plant wall where this was built and machine gunned them .... Ceausescu,,,, look it up. ------------- When told "it's not the money,it's the principle", remember, it's always the money.. |
Posted By: ekjdm14
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2024 at 6:58am
Indeed, passion can drive all manner of change whether political or old tractor based! Cool bit of trivia too, which I didn't know.  With that being said, my first port of call would be, since the injectors are already out, rig up some jump wires to get the starter turning it over & do a compression test (after verifying engine oil is present and not TOO contaminated). It could be the last guy did just that & found it to be DOA so didn't bother throwing the injectors back in.Assuming you have decent-ish compression (for an engine that's obviously cold & has sat open for X amount of time, don't pay too much mind to the 10% rule just see that there's at least somebody home). |