<div dir="auto">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.<div dir="auto"> 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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Dave</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 2:31 PM <<a href="mailto:k7jdj@aol.com">k7jdj@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div>Yours sounds like a particular cylinder from the video but is it possible there's something loose in the bell housing?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 10:40 AM Dave Maynard <<a rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:dave@themaplehillfarm.com" target="_blank">dave@themaplehillfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div>
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<div>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.
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 1:01 PM Mike M <<a rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:meulenms@gmx.com" target="_blank">meulenms@gmx.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div>
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When you had it apart, did you check all the piston,ring and bearing
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<div>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.
<div> 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.</div>
<div> 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.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 9:08 AM
Cecil Bearden <<a rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:crbearden@copper.net" target="_blank">crbearden@copper.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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<div>That was one of my thoughts, but my experience has been
that the liner movement was a double "thud" once on down
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<div> <font size="2">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?</font></div>
<div><font size="2">I would do a compression check as
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<div>On Apr 5, 2020, at 9:59 PM, Dave
Maynard <<a rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:dave@themaplehillfarm.com" target="_blank">dave@themaplehillfarm.com</a>>
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cracked injector lines one at a time,
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<div>But only on #5?</div>
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<div>When you crack the others the engine misses,
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<div>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
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<div>Eg #5 piston slightly higher than the other
4?</div>
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