[AT] Back (D Case stuck)

[Spencer Yost]

The valve information opens up several other options and my guess now is to
look there first.  Where there used to be smoke, there still may be a few
embers.

But to answer the sticking and only a week rest:   It takes very little
galling and corrosion to freeze up a tight engine.  All it takes is a
tablespoon of of coolant from a head or head  gasket leak, some oxygen and
a few days.   Again, it won't stick it up tight in a week but certainly
could create enough adhesion to create the need for some muscle to pop.

My Mustang showed very little galling and rust but was stuck up tighter
than a drum.   I can show you pictures of them as I still have the pistons.
 Very moderate visible rust(but some significant bi-metal galling) and
after two years of soaking one piston had to be cracked out.  The rest
required a sledge and wood block.  Mouse piss was the culprit there - they
has made a nest in the exhaust.

Spencer Yost
Owner, ATIS
Plow the Net!
http://www.atis.net

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On 11/12/2004 at 7:39 AM ken knierim wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 14:19, Spencer Yost wrote:
>> I'll bet it had just started rusting up and you caught it soon enough
>that
>> you could free it up without disassembly.  
>> 
>> Spencer Yost
>> Owner, ATIS
>> Plow the Net!
>> http://www.atis.net
>
>
>Well, that doesn't seem possible. I parked it on a Wednesday and less
>than a week later (on Sunday) it didn't want to turn. I'd say we're
>talking between 200 and 300 foot-pounds on the crank before it would
>budge. The only thing different about this from all the times I started
>and stopped it Sunday (leveling dirt for the neighbor) was the fact that
>the back tires were on a slight berm, making the nose down. I parked it
>there after putting things away from my Halloween hayride, so it's not
>like I was running it hard. 
>
>
>Oh, this is Arizona and it did not rain or get wet in that time either. 
>
>I DID have problems with it before the hayride since it had been sitting
>nearly a year and 2 valves had stuck (bent the pushrods starting it up),
>but I would have to credit that to my foolishness of testing a new
>pressure washer on it before I parked it for the "winter" last year. I
>claim responsibility for that little OOPS but it ran for several hours
>like a top during the hayride (after straightening the pushrods and
>re-adjusting the valves).
>
>Sunday was a good day in spite of the problems with the stuck Case. I
>also got to fire up my TD-14 and do some demolition at the neighbor's
>house, and had my Bobcat over there as well moving dirt. Girlfriend saw
>right through my exhaustion Sunday night and told me I was having fun.
>(she's right of course)
>
>Well, I'm not sure what happened yet. Probably won't unless I tear the
>tractor down and look for problems... and that's not probably going to
>happen anytime soon. Why look for problems when I know there are several
>on some of my other toys? :^)
>
>Ken
>
>Gilbert AZ
>
>
>
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