My TS354 Kama broke a ring right at 1000 hours. I figure it was mostly my fault for being so hard on it when it was new. I cleaned our entire farm with a 6 foot bush hog chopping anything I could run over. too much for a little 35hp tractor.
I debated rebuilding like rob but, since all I had to work in was a barn with a dirt floor I decided to go with a new engine. After looking around for a while I found all the Y485s in the country were sold and yangdong wasn't going to make anymore of them.
I called circle G tractors and got lucky. They had an engine bought in the liquidation of the old DDD dealership. It was minus a bunch of parts. Two injectors, water pump, two vavle springs, power steering pump, injector pump, all the sensors, a couple of glow plugs, and to top that off it was set up for a jinma tractor which meant it had a different flywheel and bell housing. I got the motor for for about what the rebuild parts would of cost.
It took me 4 weekends to disasemble the tractor, swap all the parts, and get it put back together. I got a new main clutch disk from Chip(my original dealer) and used the same throw out bearing rob used on his kama.
I've got to thank Chip, Rob, Circle G, Tommy, and Greg for all the help, advice, pictures, parts, etc.
Thanks to all the great help it fired right up and the clutch adjusment was dead on. I learned some things about the six finger clutch adjustment. As in which measurement to use on the bench verses if its bolted to the flywheel.
Parts mostly from circle G. Injection timing from Tommy, and clutch advice from Chip, Rob, and Greg.
I didn't document all the work with pictures as I was too **** busy and me and my help thought it would be a good time to drink moonshine while we worked on the tractor. but, I have the knownlege in my brain if anyone ever needs it.
I just have one last problem as I didn't mark any of the wires can't figure out which wires go to which alternator terminals.
The moonshine resulted in a broke manifold and a busted voltage regulator but other than that it went pretty well, lol.
I debated rebuilding like rob but, since all I had to work in was a barn with a dirt floor I decided to go with a new engine. After looking around for a while I found all the Y485s in the country were sold and yangdong wasn't going to make anymore of them.
I called circle G tractors and got lucky. They had an engine bought in the liquidation of the old DDD dealership. It was minus a bunch of parts. Two injectors, water pump, two vavle springs, power steering pump, injector pump, all the sensors, a couple of glow plugs, and to top that off it was set up for a jinma tractor which meant it had a different flywheel and bell housing. I got the motor for for about what the rebuild parts would of cost.
It took me 4 weekends to disasemble the tractor, swap all the parts, and get it put back together. I got a new main clutch disk from Chip(my original dealer) and used the same throw out bearing rob used on his kama.
I've got to thank Chip, Rob, Circle G, Tommy, and Greg for all the help, advice, pictures, parts, etc.
Thanks to all the great help it fired right up and the clutch adjusment was dead on. I learned some things about the six finger clutch adjustment. As in which measurement to use on the bench verses if its bolted to the flywheel.
Parts mostly from circle G. Injection timing from Tommy, and clutch advice from Chip, Rob, and Greg.
I didn't document all the work with pictures as I was too **** busy and me and my help thought it would be a good time to drink moonshine while we worked on the tractor. but, I have the knownlege in my brain if anyone ever needs it.
I just have one last problem as I didn't mark any of the wires can't figure out which wires go to which alternator terminals.
The moonshine resulted in a broke manifold and a busted voltage regulator but other than that it went pretty well, lol.