[AT] JD B resurrection contemplation

[charlie hill]

Al,  I'm late getting into this thread but there is a shop here in
New Bern that I'm pretty sure can do it.  it's a general auto repair
shop and used car lot but the guy builds his own race engines and
is the only shop in town that I trust anymore.  He did an A-C cylinder head
for me just a few months ago.  Do you have any idea how much the crank
will need to be cut?  Is it damaged or just rusted and scared up?
Let me know and I'll ask them for you.  I doubt he'll be real cheap but not
outrageous either.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Stephen Offiler
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 9:59 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] JD B resurrection contemplation

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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