[AT] 430 update

Phil Auten pga2 at basicisp.net
Fri Jun 30 16:32:04 PDT 2017


Yes! As George Willer once told me, "Time is your friend".

He was 100% correct. Another way to look at it is like Dan George's 
character

in The Outlaw Josey Wales kept saying "Endeavor to persevere".


Phil in TX


On 6/30/2017 1:46 PM, Dean VP wrote:
> Patience!
>
> Dean VP
> Snohomish, WA 98290
>
> It's better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Spencer Yost
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 10:35 AM
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Subject: [AT] 430 update
>
> I got the second cutting of hay in this week, and was a little disappointed
> that I couldn't put the hay rake on the 430. The number one cylinder is
> still soaking in the shop and nothing in the way of progress has occurred.
> Not a drop has soaked past the rust barrier.
>
> To break the impasse(literally and figuratively) a couple of attempts at
> alternate/improved methods were made prior to hay making. I tried to
> pressurize the cylinder so that air pressure can help drive the penetrant
> down per Cecil's recommendation.  But the exhaust valve will not seat well
> enough to hold air pressure.   Anything over 10 pounds/in and so much air is
> moving through the cylinder the air is actually blowing the penetrant off
> the  top of the piston and blowing it out the exhaust manifold.  I guess
> that rust/rust flakes from the manifold are preventing the valve from
> seating. Exercising the exhaust valve up-and-down didn't seem to create an
> improvement in the situation.  Seems to hold 5 to 7 pounds OK without
> excessive air loss. So I tried that for a while but all it did was make my
> compressor run too much.
>
> I did try more force on a jacked up rear wheel. But the concrete floor in my
> shop is so smooth that past a certain point all it does is rotate the other
> wheel - even if it is chocked(the wheel rides up, or skids against, the two
> different chocks I tried.
>
> Next step is to rearrange the shop so that I can suspend the rear of the
> tractor by the rear wheels with a engine hoist.  I hope the engine hoist is
> up to the job. The cylinder on the hoist was replaced 6 to 8 years ago but
> if I remember right it's still leaks down ever so slowly. I'm pretty sure
> the tractor will be on the ground by the next morning.  Raising it back up
> is  something I will have to do twice a day I am sure.
>
> Been soaking for three months(two at the seller and one here) and no
> progress can be discerned. I'll put a few more months into it but eventually
> I'm just gonna have to tear this thing down if it doesn't free up on its
> own.
>
> Spencer Yost
>
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