[AT] Farmall B head

[Phil Auten]

Rick,
The A/B/C all used the same engine, so heads should be available
fairly reasonable. Problem is, a lot of them have cracks. I had a C
a few years ago that missed badly. Pulled the head to get the valves
done and it was cracked across two of the combustion chambers.
Found a good head for $100 and spent about $165 to get it redone.
Ran like a champ after that.

Phil

At 05:29 PM 03/17/2004, you wrote:
>I yanked the head on my '40 Farmall B and found 3 cracks, all in the
>water jacket, found all the exhaust valve seats need replacing,
>everything else seems OK.
>
>I can get the seats done for about $15 each so that part is easy.
>
>I haven't priced cast iron welding but doubt it is cheap, not sure if JB
>Weld is enough even though they are pretty small cracks, so does anybody
>know about the availability of heads for these things? If they are
>around, are they spendy?
>
>There is a crack in the block, too, but it's between two water holes, so
>I'm not worried about it, besides, the head gasket would pretty well
>seal it.
>
>TIA
>RickinNW-WA
>
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