[AJD] governor - 1953 50 - update

[Paul Waugh]

Sounds like my projects .... one thing leads to another   ..... and another 
LOL

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ransom" <davidhenryransom at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Antique John Deere mailing list" 
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Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [AJD] governor - 1953 50 - update


I found the screw by looking down through the governor housing with a
flashlight and mirror after dark this evening.  It was between the camshaft
gear and the outside of the left cylinder.

While looking for the screw in the oil I drained out, I found a piece of
broken cotter pin (¿from when I removed the connecting rod nuts back when I
was getting the engine unstuck a few years ago?).

Before I found the screw with the mirror and flashlight, I removed the oil
pump so I could reach in where it goes to feel for the screw.  While I was
removing the pump, I discovered that the oil line from the pump to the
filter was barely finger tight at the pump end and looser than that at the
filter end, and the oil line to the governor isn't all that tight at the
governor end.  So maybe it's just as well I had a reason to go feeling
around in there.  (I know that oil was getting to the rocker arms when I had
it running earlier this fall, and at least as far as where the line to the
fuel shutoff attaches to the crankcase.  I do not know how good the oil
pressure was, because the original oil pressure gauge is very rusty, missing
the glass, and undoubtedly nonfunctional.  I got a new oil gauge when I got
the used governor weights.)

The oil pump's screen is in pretty bad shape, with a couple of sizable holes
in it.  The pump is also covered with oily dirt / sludge / gunk.

So, I guess next I should clean up the oil pump, put the oil pump and
governor innards back in, and try to tighten the oil lines.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
> David Ransom
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 2:31 PM
> To: Antique John Deere mailing list
> Subject: [AJD] governor - 1953 50 - I screwed up
>
> I screwed up.
>
> Today I tried to put the 1953 50's governor back together.  To make it
> easier to clean out the inside of the housing, I removed the "H401R,
> Lever,
> Inside Governor" (the thing that the thrust bearing pushes when the
> weights
> push the thrust bearing).  When I tried to put it back on, I lost one of
> the
> little machine screws, presumably somewhere down inside the crankcase.  I
> removed the top crankcase cover and reached around in there, and I drained
> the oil, and felt around inside the crankcase some more, and got all oily
> but didn't find the screw.
>
> Have any of you ever lost one of these screws like that?  If so, where did
> it turn up?
>
> Should I be taking off the cylinder block, the governor housing, or
> something else to look for it?
>
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