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Stephen Offiler soffiler at gmail.com
Sat Sep 16 05:39:01 PDT 2017


WOW!  Congrat's!

(and I'll take about 1% of the credit... it's the 99% perspiration thing
that gets the job done!)

SO


On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Spencer Yost <yostsw at atis.net> wrote:

> Yep John, the only way I'm staying away from the tractor is to cut hay,
> which will happen today or tomorrow depending on soil moisture.   I wish I
> could be raking hay with it - we'll see...   I'm certainly going to try.
>
> The engine must still pretty snug because raising the rear wheels last
> night would not turn it.   After looking at the cylinder walls below the
> piston I am pleased with what I have seen in terms of newly exposed 1/2"
> section of the wall but some fine emery cloth, cleaning and some oil for
> the lower wall is in order.  So I lowered the rear end last night and  will
> clean up the walls before I go any further.
>
> After I clean up the cylinder I will  try the starter first.
>
> Stay tuned,
>
>
> Spencer Yost
>
> > On Sep 16, 2017, at 7:23 AM, John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > I forgot to add, if you work really fast, you just might make it to the
> > hay field with this tractor for the last cutting.:-D
> >
> > John Hall
> >
> >
> >> On 9/15/2017 9:37 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
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