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Well that machine shop fee sounds a bit high ....we will see Hey my neighbor has one of those shop presses with the little red bottle jack on it.... :D

Hmmmm maybe that explains why they were factory with rice patty tires :D

Thanks !!!!! I did not know they need to be calibrated. My neighbor farms and is a fairly good mechanic ..... even torques the bolts when he changes wheels on his car !!!!

Wow thanks to a friend here who sent me a link to an Ebay listing for a Starrett inside micrometer set with ten rods and can measure 2 inches to 12 inches. This is a vintage set pre owned by a master machinist who took good care of his tools. Got it for $99 It is paid for and on its way ...

Yep I will go slow and get lots of advice along the way. Will get advice here and I know some schooled diesel mechanics also. I need to wait till after Xmas to free up room in my 24 x 32 foot garage.... need to have a dedicated spot to do the rebuild ... Fortunately I have free gas. January will...

Yeah and if you still don't have enough power you can always just make a less than full width cut :D

I donno but what bothers me is that I will be there in 15 years (maybe) :eek:

Well This is a sleeved engine and the $500 kit includes sleeves and pistons. Not presently taking classes but I do have a high quality boring head that I never used but maybe some day when I am 80 I will try to use it on a Kohler:D So why even go to diesel school when you can learn it all...

Thanks torch.... Today is Sunday and the tractor is coming home next Saturday so until then no new information or pictures. But I am inclined to rebuild at this point.... So the next question I have is to decide how much of the rebuild I can do with the skills that I have. I do have neighbors...

Wow iron man I was not expecting a post like this. I grow a little garlic also but so far not too mechanized. I grow candy onions and I need to set plants 8 inches apart in the row and if only one person on the transplanter you need to really creep .... like between .1 and .2 mph. A few years...

Ahhh...well ...... hmmmmmmmmmm I called the man selling the tractor to me..... seems there was a lot of communication over the short 30 minutes that I shared with him when I inspected and agreed to buy the tractor. So the information must have gotten scrambled in my mind after I left there...

Well I copied the image from the CL ad selling the tractor and mailed it to a friend and then linked to the url of the email. OK so that will not work .... so When I get the tractor home next Saturday I will take some pics to post here (btw my computer skills are limited.... I struggle when it...

Until I get my new old Kabota running I am using a Deere utility with fel and back blade. Before I got the fel the plowing job was killing my back and neck doing about 800 feet of private lane. I have a simple solution that I have not tried but I thing a rear view mirror would be a big help and...

This is the tractor ... I am bring it home later next week. I am installing a winch onto my trailer. I went there and inspected the tractor and put money down. Cant wait to get her home !!!! edit: hmmm seems I can not post images yet maybe need to make more posts first ???

Well before going any further I think I need to verify the wear. And you all have made good points .... now that I think of it... I have a bit of Kohler engine experience and over bore kits come in .010, .020 and .030 oversizes SOOOOOOOOOOO Wolfman you must be right .... if .030 is verified...

Well maybe that dealership employee is the delivery man aka gofer.... like gofer this or gofer that :rolleyes:

Well I am not a diesel mechanic (but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express !!!) Well the thickness of a sheet of newspaper is about .003 or three thou, so thirty thou would be thickness of ten sheets of news paper... If the bore is actually .030 difference then there is .015 more worn off of...

The man who is selling the tractor bought it only knowing that it was hard to start.... so he took off the head and discovered it was cracked so he bought a new head... he was thinking he might just go ahead and rebuild it and then he had this dealership employee look at it and he measured the...

I am buying a L1801DT with a cracked head and 1100 hours on a working tach. Engine was sucking water from the head and blowing it out the exhaust and was hard to start. Oil is black so no water (anti freeze) getting into crank case. Previous owner had a friend who worked at a Kubota dealership...

Hello and this is my first post. Just put money down and picking up my tractor next week. I have been desiring a tractor with a very low under drive to use growing specialty crops. So was looking for gray market L1501, L1801 or L2201 ..... or a non gray L185 with the optional under drive. I...