[AT] 39 Farmall A crankshaft question

Al Jones farmallsupera at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 27 05:54:38 PST 2010


My students got the oil pan off the 39 A this week, and the splitting stand I built for them bolted on, so if they are successful with their other projects this week, they can start preparing to pull the engine the rest of the way apart.  

After school I took a look.  You can wiggle the connecting rods on the crankshaft ever so slightly.  The worst one felt like about 1/16" of play side to side.  I know there's no way to tell for sure until they plastigauge it and mic the journals, but I am anticipating best case scenario a crankshaft grind and worst case, weld/grind the crank back down or find another crank already turned, or have it turned.

Anybody got a good source for reground A/B/C crankshafts?  I thought I'd do some checking here just to get an idea of where to look.  Local machine shop is good at this kind of stuff, and is reasonable, but I'd like to go in knowing my options.....

thanks,
Al




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