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

[Justin Weber]

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John Wilkens wrote:

>Would the cam bearings necessarily be ruined by the dipping?    John W
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>At 03:52 PM 06/20/2008, you wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Evidence is clear that someone has been into it before, no surprise, 
>>and none to gently.
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>>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.
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>>I figure the sleeve seals will be destroyed but they seem readily 
>>available. The cam bearings however are the cause of this e-mail.
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>>Can the camshaft bearings be pulled and reinserted.  Anyone know if 
>>the bearings could be masked during the process?
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>>Next question is does anyone have any info on bearing clearance or 
>>fit to the camshaft?
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>John G
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