[AT] JD B resurrection contemplation

[Stephen Offiler]

There are general machine shops, and there are automotive machine shops.  I
am assuming Spencer refers to an automotive machine shop in his comments.
While cylinders can be bored, and crankshafts ground, on general-purpose
machinery, said machinery is uncommonly large for the general shop and will
require a more time-consuming setup procedure; whereas automotive-specific
machinery is designed to handle these issues.  I was privately wondering
whether you can find a good automotive shop down there in the land of
Nascar that wants do do anything besides 600HP V-8's... (grin)

SO


On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Spencer Yost <yostsw at atis.net> wrote:

> Any good machine shop can handle what you need. The problem is, as you had
> intimated,  is finding one to begin with. I had a great one but they
> retired. The place was a little gold mine but the younger workers just want
> to work for someone. They could have bought it but didn't. So I was on the
> hunt again. It took me a while, and I had to visit and talk with two or
> four before I found one. Any good shop can do any chunk of metal with holes
> in it and turn any crankshaft.
>
> One note:  The flywheel on John Deere's, if they get a bit loose, will
> wear the splines on the crankshaft. It's not so much a problem on the early
> letter series tractors but still check it.  There are only a couple shops
> in the country that can correct that.
>
> PS:   Parts tractors are your friend.
> PSS.  You will have more in it than its worth but does it matter? (-;
>
> Good luck!
>
> Spencer Yost
>
> > On Mar 26, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Al Jones <farmallsupera1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We have a B, serial number is in the 297xxx range, that's a basket
> > case but it's a family tractor and my dad is interested in getting it
> > running. It was parked because the oil pressure dropped and though it
> > didn't seize, it was close to it. This was almost 30 years ago! Then
> > it sat outside for years, cover blew off the muffler, etc. It
> > originally had a roll-o-matic front end but the pedestal broke and a
> > standard front was swapped in, if we get it running we want to put one
> > back on. I'm confident that the block will need to be bored and
> > probably the crank turned, anyone have recommendations on shops to get
> > that done? I'm an IH collector so JD is like being on another planet.
> > Buying a good, complete parts tractor is not out of the question
> > either. We're in southeast NC.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Al
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