[AT] 430V

[Spencer Yost]

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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