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Yeah, plug stretched. Get a new one, bet it'll thread right in. I've had it happen too, but not on my Kubota.

Worth noting that the water can come from more than one place. Assuming that it didn't come in through the intake 'cause something was left undone or uncovered the usual culprits are: Head Gasket, Crack in Cyl Head that extends into the water jacket. The latter is not always obvious when the...

When did it happen??? At Start-up? If so, and no ether was used then it's likely a water issue. Does not take a very big leak. International Navistar had an issue with head gaskets years ago. If the water happened to leak into a cyl that was at bottom of intake getting ready to move up on the...

I wouldn't be too afraid to head to NAPA with my old one and cross it out to something they have. Couple cases in point - Few years back had an air-head Beemer (R100RS). Mechanical voltage regulator went bad, went to NAPA and crossed out one for a BMW auto, their Echlin brand. The replacement...

Like uglyboy said PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE. You'll be glad you learned how to do it! He's also correct that on a two wheeled cart (or manure spreader, or hay baler, or anything of that nature to start the turn you steer so that the tractor starts in the opposite direction you want the...

Well good for you.

Trees or standing timber are measured in inches of diameter at DBH (diameter breast height). A rule of thumb (for Midwest hardwood timber) is that there is 2 inches of taper in every 16 foot log. Thus a 12 inch DBH standing tree would have only 1 potentially marketable log (barring other...

Tooljunkie's video suggestion is excellent (they are turning that engine in the direction of normal running rotation by the way). That is a beautiful valve train in the video by the way! Sexy almost! Sorry... it's the gear head coming out in me.

RCW - My comment was an observation that from the back and forth on those issues that **bjj30 does not YET have the mechanical understanding necessary to efficiently accomplish the task which he (or she I suppose) has undertaken. Not to say he won't learn and get there. Nothing wrong with the...

It is important that this is all happening by turning the engine in the direction of normal rotation. Like it turns when running.

If you mean by "the spring for the exhaust is almost to the top".... that you set the intake lash when the exhaust valve spring was fully compressed (the valve stem was pushed down by the rocker tip) then you are probably ok. But if you mean by that statement that the spring was fully extended...

BTW, if that IS what you did the effect is that the exhaust valve lash is too great/loose. The result is that the Ex valve closes too early and opens too late. If significantly enough loose it could cause difficult cranking because the cylinder that is supposed to be freely expelling exhaust is...

Sending unit, probably water temperature. Nothing to do with glow-plugs. Your exhaust valves are out of adjustment (If you described correctly in your post at 7:21 how you set the valves). If you are turning a 4 cycle engine in the direction of normal rotation the exhaust valve is still open as...

I'm not trying to be smart or anything here, and I don't want to overstate the obvious. But this is the same tractor that half a dozen members tried repeatedly to explain how to set the valve lash properly on and there's no way for us to know if that was really done properly (if they aren't...

I probably wouldn't spray it on the air filter, catches dust, accelerates need to replace. The propellant is propane, so it might give you a marginal bump on a cold start, (might). Will it contaminate the oil? Doubtful, it'd have to go past the piston rings or a valve stem in a significant...

Looks like the charge pump assembly is different from what cub used. that idea is probably a dead end. Although I've used Cub hydro internals as spare parts to fix Simplicity so I guess you never know.

New O-rings/seals. The lubrication holes in the pistons of the hydro drive and driven cylinders are wee little and too easily plugged to risk a little chunk of silicone from squeeze-out (pretty sure oil doesn't go back through the filter between charge pump and hydro drive on that set-up). Can...

Uhhhm.... So what do you do, and where has your lunch box been? There are few things that cause a rapid degradation of Aluminum as the oxide that forms on the surface of aluminum is self-sealing so to speak and generally inhibits or significantly slows further oxidation (what we all term as...

D2Cat... Give me a second... still laughing.... USDA - The United States Department of Agriculture has numerous "Agencies" that operate as part of the "Department". Back around 1994 the USDA "Soil Conservation Service" changed its name to the USDA "Natural Resource Conservation Service"...

So I'm a great proponent of doing things yourself... But it seems pretty clear from your posts that this is your first adventure into reassembly of any kind of overhead valve 4 cycle engine. Perhaps the best approach would be to have someone over that has a little experience with this sort of...