This last weekend I worked with my mentor on my tractor. We are able to just barely get the tractor to turn over and about to stay running. With my tractor you have to hand crank it to start it so since the parts are all new the cranking part was hard because everything was stiff. I am going to have to buy some new battery cables and then a battery and we will be able to start the tractor without cranking it. I also broke the elbow that is coming out of the carbonator so my dad is stopping in Mitchell today to pic up all the things I need and hopefully I can get it too run good this coming weekend.
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On Friday the 17th I plan on going back over to Plankinton to work on the motor and to hopefully to get the old girl up and running again. We are going to have to work on getting the fly wheel timed right and then just going to have to put all the little parts back together and hopefully she will fire and will be alive again.
On March 10th I went back to work on my tractor. Matthew and I where able to the engine almost all the way put back together and got it put back into place in the tractor's frame. Then we stalled out because I forgot to take the pulley off of the old water pump and I don't have the radiator back yet but hopefully I get it back soon.
I plan on meeting with my mentor again on Sunday March 5,2017. I have just received all of my new parts that I need to put the motor back together. Putting the motor back together is going to be a challenge I think because we just have so many new parts going onto new parts that I think it will take a little force to get it back together but hopefully I am wrong and it goes smoothly.
After I got all my parts back to the shop in Plankinton I was able to sit down with Matthew and to think about what I all needed to order to be able to get my tractor running again. I had to order new piston rings, gasket set, upper radiator hose, clutch pad and water pump. In the end It costed 404 dollars and we have already paid 700 in a new block.
On the Monday we had no school 2 weeks ago I took up all of the parts I needed washed and took them too John's Service and he let me use his steam washer to clean the parts. I got up there at 8 and I had to use the washer for 3 loads because it wasn't the biggest washer there and it took about 30 for each loads so I was able to take my mag needle to Dale Winter to see if my mag needle was any good. After I got done with washing the tractor parts I was able to drop off the parts at Matthews shop in Plankinton.
This last weekend I went over to Matthew's house to find out what I needed to buy to get my tractor up and running. I first went over to work on the tractor because I got my block and head back and I thought I was ready to go but Matthew thought that it would be better to get most of the engine parts cleaned again but I didn't really need to go and get them cleaned really good he said that we could just steam wash them.
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