[AT] Kubota M5700 noise

Mon Apr 6 12:05:32 PDT 2020

We have inspected what we could see through a floor plate and cant find any
loose flywheel bolts or cracks in it. No visibly broken clutch parts or
loose bolts. Pulled out starter motor, checked it and whatever we could see
through that hole and checked all the teeth on flywheel while in there.
Cant do any further checks behind engine without splitting tractor.
     Cranck and cam bearings all seem good with no play or any heat looking
stress, but cant check main bearings without splitting tractor because
Kubota engines have crank assembly installed from the end like you would a
camshaft.

Dave

On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 2:31 PM <k7jdj at aol.com> wrote:

> Harmonic damper?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Knierim <ken.knierim at gmail.com>
> To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Mon, Apr 6, 2020 11:06 am
> Subject: Re: [AT] Kubota M5700 noise
>
> Really reaching a bit here... I had a persistent rattling noise I chased
> in my Blazer. It made enough racket that the spark retard system would kick
> the timing back. Tried all kinds of things; kept thinking it was a rod or
> something. I finally got an engine to upgrade from the 305 to a 383
> (stroker 350). When I tore it apart, I found the bolts on the torque
> converter to the flex plate had slipped and were rattling. Had to replace
> the flexplate to fix it but the noise sounded in the engine and wasn't.
>
> Yours sounds like a particular cylinder from the video but is it possible
> there's something loose in the bell housing?
>
> Ken in AZ
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 10:40 AM Dave Maynard <dave at themaplehillfarm.com>
> wrote:
>
> Actually, did not check length of connecting rod and its clearance from
> head at TDC. But it's not traveling to close to the head as there would be
> damage showing. Just have this new concern about the wrong rod being put in
> by mistake, but that would have been short, not long.
>
> Dave
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 1:01 PM Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:
>
> When you had it apart, did you check all the piston,ring and bearing
> clearances?
>
> Mike M
>
>
> On 4/6/2020 11:35 AM, Dave Maynard wrote:
>
> No sleeves in this engine. Someone had this engine apart before and #5 had
> a new piston and rod and bearings. The seller said it was his father's
> tractor since new and never been apart....he lied! There was more RTV on
> oil pan than you could imagine and obviously that piston and rod and
> bearings had been replaced and I thought they had been chasing the noise.
> Unless there was some other reason, but dont know.
>      My friend and mechanic help has a Jacobson mower he's is rebuilding
> that has a 4 cylinder version of this motor that appears identical except
> the number of cyl's. He found the rod to be the same except it a tweak
> shorter by an almost immeasurable amount, maybe .005 or .010. Part number
> is almost the same except last digit and now I'm wondering if that could be
> someone's mistake. Would shorter rod cause preignition? By the way, there
> is no part number on the rods so they would have to be accurately measured.
>      It's going to be a bit before I can get this back apart again, but
> hoping to have this fixed in time to plow.
>
> Dave
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 9:08 AM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
>
> That was one of my thoughts, but my experience has been that the liner
> movement was a double "thud" once on down stroke and once on upstroke.
> Cecil
> On 4/6/2020 1:12 AM, k7jdj at aol.com wrote:
>
> Cylinder liner loose.  Don't know if this engine even has cylinder liners
> if it does and that liner is moving you would get click. Did you look
> carefully at the head when you had it off and look for any sign of head
> distress?
> I would do a compression check as well.
>
> Gary
>
> Renton, WA.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> On Apr 5, 2020, at 9:59 PM, Dave Maynard <dave at themaplehillfarm.com>
> wrote:
>
> Have cracked injector lines one at a time, and it gets quieter on #5
>
>
> But only on #5?
>
> When you crack the others the engine misses, but the noise remains?
>
> I wonder if something about cylinder 5 is somehow different so that the
> compression is higher, and so it’s igniting (pre-igniting) too much before
> top dead centre in just that cylinder?
>
> Eg #5 piston slightly higher than the other 4?
>
> Roger
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