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[Gunnells, Bradley R]

Don’t discount the few beers and flipping the bird as well Steve!  ;-)

Brad

On 9/16/17, 7:45 AM, "at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com on behalf of Stephen Offiler" <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com on behalf of soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:

    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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