[AT] 39 Farmall A coming along.....

charliehill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Wed Mar 10 15:24:22 PST 2010


Sounds like they are doing good Al.  Don't worry about the Plastiguage now. 
You'll need to do it when you put it back together anyway so they can learn 
about that then.

I'm guessing you only have a couple of class periods a week you can devote 
to it?

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
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Subject: [AT] 39 Farmall A coming along.....


> My students got the engine out (off?) the tractor yesterday and onto a 
> nice
> sturdy shop table.  The got to see how the main and rod bearing caps are 
> all
> numbered so they go back in the right spot.  They got piston/rods 1,3,and 
> 4
> out today.  #2 will get interesting.  It is definitely the stuck one. 
> Once
> they get the crank out, then they can wail on the back side of the piston
> until their hearts' content!
>
> The crank appears to be in pretty good shape, the #3 rod bearing had some
> bronze showing on the edge of the bearing insert, and I can feel a slight
> corresponding groove on that crank journal.  I am hoping, hoping, hoping a
> quick grind will have it back into spec.  Time'll tell.  If we had more
> time, I would have loved to let them plastigauge everything to check
> tolerances, but their (and my) goal is to drive it out under its own power
> by the end of the semester and we were 1/3 of the way through on Monday.
>
>
> Al
>
>
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