[AT] Drawn out 1949 AC-B engine rebuild

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I have one engine three back halves need to get busy too on  rebuilding 
mine. My current excuse is making the rod and main bearing shims
 
 
In a message dated 3/7/2015 3:34:10 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
mogrits at gmail.com writes:

About 10  yrs ago my B became very hard to start and just as hard to keep
running. A  compression test revealed...that it had almost none!

So one weekend  while a cousin was visiting we tore down the tractor and
engine and found  we could rock the pistons in the cylinders by hand.
Obviously the pistons,  rings or sleeves or all the above were very worn. I
bagged all the bolts  and photo-documented it all and still have all the
parts neatly arranged  but have not touched it in that time. I need to get
off my butt and get  that tractor back in the field.

What are the lists recommendations as  to how to proceed? I purchased
Spencers book on engine rebuilding and read  it years ago, but it is still
outside my wheelhouse as to what is necessary  and what isn't. What do I
check in the crank and what will need to be done  there based on those
findings? Head/valve work while it's apart?

I'm  asking for the kick in the pants that I've missed since George  Willer
passed.

(BTW, this tractor has no ignition issues as the  magneto was very
professionally rebuilt by the now passed list  member/magneto whisperer
whose name I can't recall) He was an extremely  kind and funny man. When he
returned the rebuilt magneto he warned me not  to park the tractor outside
as an errant breeze might move the tractor  enough to generate a  spark!

Warren
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