[AT] New Holland TS110 saga continues.

[charlie hill]

There used to be a machine shop like that here.  I didn't do work as large 
as
the one you found but it was just because there were no engines that big
around here.  They had the skills to do it.  They are long gone now.  The 
last
thing I took to them was a head off a 454 Chevy boat engine.  An exhaust 
valve
had been sticking open on it.  I took it off in the fall, had the head fixed 
and
put it back on.  I didn't use the boat again until that fall and the problem 
showed
up again.  I could fix the problem temporarily by removing the valve cover 
and
taping the valve with a ball peen hammer.  At the end of that season I 
didn't immediately
fix it but waited until on in the winter.  I took the head back to the same 
shop
and since it had been over a year and a half I didn't even mention that they 
had worked on
it before.  I just asked them to fix it.

I went back to get it a few days later.  The guy said "didn't I work on that 
head last year?"
I told him yes.  He said "it was my fault.  No charge."  What happened that 
he missed was
that water from the cooling jacket in the head was seeping past the outside 
of the valve guide
and dripping onto the valve stem.  Apparently that valve was typically open 
when the engine
stopped.  The trickle of water would rust on the stem and cause it to not 
close fully.

The reason I didn't mention it, besides the time lapse, was that they had 
always done good work
for me at a reasonable price and given the time lapse I had no way of 
knowing if it was their fault or
not.  Their reaction to it justified the confidence I had in them to begin 
with.    I wish they were
still here.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Robert
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 10:58 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] New Holland TS110 saga continues.

Cecil

Your head was a toy for these guys!!

Bob

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 18, 2015, at 6:45 AM, Cecil R Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
>
> I posted the link to the machine shop I used to recondition the head
> below.   I think this is their Tulsa Location, but it depicts the size
> of engines they work on.
>
> http://memorialmachine.com/
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
>> On 7/17/2015 5:53 PM, Mike wrote:
>> Cecil, every time I read your stories, and I do enjoy the detail, it
>> makes the problems I'm having that day seem so small. You are one hard
>> working guy.
>>
>> Mike M
>
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