[AT] 430V update

[John Hall]

Wise choice. As Kenny Rogers sang "Know when to hold them, know when to 
fold them". The ones I have unstuck, we always abandoned force applied 
to everything at once as soon as it was apparent things were stuck 
pretty tight. No need to beat a dead horse (or Deere  in this 
situation). Hope you don't find major damage inside. I've only had to 
junk 2, Oliver 70 and an IH ID-9 (busted blocks). Both were sold to 
other collectors for parts. Keep posting pics, this is the first 
resurrection for this group in quite some time.

John Hall


On 6/18/2017 12:35 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> I used Father's Day as an excuse to spend the morning working on the 430 instead of other things. I sucked out the penetrating fluid from the number one cylinder (with my mighty vac vacuum, another handy use for it).  And then got my inspection camera in the bore and found what appeared to be typical water infiltration. Wasn't any signs of damage, debris or anything like that.
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> But I was a little mystified. The muffler was on tight, no signs of rust in the muffler or piping and no signs there could be infiltration anywhere else.  No water in the oil or oil in the coolant.  There didn't appear to be any reason for the water at all. And then I found this.   Any water that ran down the muffler or ran off the hood into the exhaust pipe hole would have gotten through this rusted out spot in the manifold flange.
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> Mystery solved but the bore looked pretty rough.   The camera isn't perfect but I could see enough to see it wasn't just a little surface rust.
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> I'm going to pull the manifold and head and pan.   I don't think force is the right thing for this situation.  Rings are bound to be stuck bad.
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