[AT] 430V update

[Howard Fleming]

Have you tried Kroil?  I have had very good luck with this product.

Howard

On 07/28/2017 09:59 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> I am still soaking the engine, and not much seems to be going on. I have noticed that when I use a very thin  penetrant; like the 3M product, or Gibbs, or what not the penetrant does seem to leak down. In fact I  even see air bubbles around the circumference of the piston with my bore scope. But if drain it and I put anything thicker, like my diesel/ATF solution, it  just sits there.
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> But I have been able to procure a new rear wheel. I believe I mentioned it before, but the only thing that was ever really wrong with this tractor is calcium had eaten away at part of the right rear wheel. I knew about this when I bought it. But the tire basically kind of sorta holds air and the wheel holds up the tractor.  But I knew it needed to be replaced. I recently scored a nearly pristine, correct, welded, rear wheel for this tractor. The earlier tractors like the 40 and the M were riveted(Dean fact check me on that) . But these were welded. Less easy to find than you might imagine in good shape.  I didn't get a steal on it, but I wasn't completely ripped off either. Which is what I would've expected to happen. :-). And they are not making them any more so I figured I should just go ahead and get it.
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> Which leads me to an ATIS list member trip. An old time, and unfortunately previous, list member Brice Adams picked  up the wheel for me. So I drove to his house this past weekend and visited with him to pick up the wheel. We had a great tractor weekend. He has a B that is stuck and sitting in the fence row, so using one of his newer John Deeres we got that pulled out, drained water in the oil and we got penetrating fluid in it .   Then we did quite a bit of work on a farmall cub with a woods mower and got it running. He still has a little more carb work to do to get it running 100% reliably(needs choke to run), but it runs very nice when you dial in the throttle and the choke cable.  Great hospitality and great fun!
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> Spencer Yost
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