[AT] 430V

[Spencer Yost]

It free!!!!!!

A solid 30° movement on my flywheel mark and a half an inch on my rod measurement. However I have run out of things to jack against. Now all the counter weights are all too close to the oil pump or the sides of blocks to safely use the jack. So I have the tractor suspended on the rear wheels again and I will leave it overnight.

Steve Offiler probably gets the prize for this one for bring up the geometry idea. I got progress by abandoning jacking against the front counter weight; which was not a perfectly tangential force, and went to the second cylinder counter weight, which I could create a perfectly tangential force too. It acted like it was never stuck and simply gave up the ghost with no problem.  Clearly, geometry is everything. 

Unfortunately the second counter weight required very careful positioning, as there is about three different things I could damage if anything slipped or moved too quickly. And now it's too far up in the block to jack against.

99% of the work is done. I am quite relieved!

Spencer Yost