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Re: Final Act Got mine back together and running as well. didn't get a gauge on it, but the oil light goes out now just windmilling with the decompression active. seems to have an unnerving knock but I'm not all that used to diesel.. went thru the valves and such, so she's got that nice sewing...

Re: countdown... Turned down and Tacked a 5/16 bolt head and shoulder in the cam.. it ain't pretty but it ought to slow the oil leak. Got the case all goobered up with RTV black and back on. though I had everything cleaned, but found oil oozing around the bottom of the case after I set it in...

Re: Final stretch... So the uppity Kubota dude down town said "oh yea, you pull the cam, tap in 1/8 NPT plug, and weld it in.. tell you what, you ain't tapping nothing into that cam.. It's harder than my aunt Verna.

Re: Final stretch... Yup.. two days later (including 6 hrs futzing with a dinged up drive shaft tube, and four hrs talking myself into torching the innards out of a socket to remove the crank pulley), sure enough, no plug in the end of the cam. so now I'm being told I should pull the cam (and...

Re: Just made the turn I'm thinking this thread is reading like one of those old horror movies.. where it's close to the end of the movie.. everyone's breathing again, the end is in sight.. and [B]Bam[B], the monster re-opens a bloodshot eye... Seems I got myself sucked into a L2201DT project...

Just found myself with a L2201DT with 22.5 truck tires on turf rims. half decent turf tires on front. I'm torn between just chaining the rears and running it to see what what other surprises I find (I already found a burned up Electrical system, and the front end full of grease), or just biting...