[Farmall] Looking for some help with a 1928 Regular.

[John Wilkens]

Would the cam bearings necessarily be ruined by the dipping?    John W



At 03:52 PM 06/20/2008, you wrote:
>About a year ago, my son bought a warehouse in Houston as an 
>investment / storage area for his overabundance of toys. One of the 
>things that went with the deal was a rusty old 1928 Farmall that had 
>belonged to what had been the farm back when. Best we could research 
>it had been parked sometime in the 50's. How it got inside the 
>warehouse we don't know, but there it was on steel.
>
>We decided to see if we could rebuild it and get it running. That 
>might have been a soft headed decision on our part but over the past 
>year the teardown has proceeded on the engine and it has been fun. 
>Mag was trashed, governor possibly (another task) but amazingly the 
>block and head seem solid (so far) and most of the pieces seem to be 
>ther in some sort of condition. We did pick up a 1930 Regular as a 
>parts tractor just in case.
>
>Evidence is clear that someone has been into it before, no surprise, 
>and none to gently.
>
>Anyway, to the point of all this. The engine is out and stripped 
>except for the cam bearings and the cylinder sleeves.  The goal is 
>to get the blocked dipped, Caustic to get rid of 80 years of sludge, 
>acid to clear out 80 years of rust from the cooling passages.
>
>I figure the sleeve seals will be destroyed but they seem readily 
>available. The cam bearings however are the cause of this e-mail.
>
>Can the camshaft bearings be pulled and reinserted.  Anyone know if 
>the bearings could be masked during the process?
>
>Next question is does anyone have any info on bearing clearance or 
>fit to the camshaft?
>
>My instincts tell me that the bearings should be line bored and 
>fitted to the cam at installation so that reusing would not be an 
>option.  Still this is 80 year old technology and a slow turning 
>engine so I may be overly gun shy.
>
>Does anyone know of a source for these bearings outright. I can get 
>them reproduced if I have to but it would be a lot easier if I could 
>just purchase a set.
>
>I have posted this question on a couple of the other tractor forums 
>and so far the silence has been deafening. Hopefully, someone here 
>can give some guidance.
>
>John G
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