My AEBI AM10 project

[Agvg]

Hope to get this machine up and running



This machine have no sign of wear in the gearbox and it has many hours hard work



The engine is in a sorry state, parked outside and some one needed a spark plug toke it so the engine block and piston are gone.

 

[js5020]

Nice find, hope you can get it back to working condition. Keep us updated.

 

[Agvg]

Its the engine that stops me, I can bore the engine and fit a overdim piston, or find a better engine but its still a small engine thats 50 years old and made i very small series so parts ar hard to get and very expensive.
There are the options on a Loncin or Honda engine, Loncin have the right PTO size and are cheap.

 

[js5020]

Well, I always say a running machine with an engine conversion will get more work done than a broken machine that's all original waiting years for a part. There are a few on the site that have converted Gravelys from their original engine to the Chondas (Chinese Hondas). It just depends on what you as the owner want as a finished product.

 

[Agvg]

Got the price on bore the block and get the valvs done, it was not so bad, ca 140$. But I think a overdim piston can be expensive.

 

[Agvg]

Nice find, hope you can get it back to working condition. Keep us updated.

The plan is to make it a working machine, its been here since it was new and it was run whit a broken headgasket until the head it self was destroid by the leak.
The machine is swiss made so its no cheap design so if i get it working good i have it for decades.

 

[js5020]

Yes AEBI is swiss and still made today, there use to be a US distributor in the northeastern US, I imagine they are still there. Even current models look very robust, I would guess they are also spendy.

 

[Agvg]

Found a better engine

 

[Agvg]

So now the carburettor stops me, its full of rust and dirt and I must find a way to loosen the needle and other small moving parts. Any good advice?

 

[Tor Arne]

put it in a container with brake fluid and leave it for a while, it use to take off some goo

 

[Agvg]

Now i have got all the parts out, it did soak in a can whit diesel for some hours and that did it.

 

[Agvg]

My new engine seems to need some work, no spark and it might need some valve and pistonring work, was hoping for fill fuel and pull but no....

 

[js5020]

My new engine seems to need some work, no spark and it might need some valve and pistonring work, was hoping for fill fuel and pull but no....

Oh now that would be to easy,, and take the "fun" out of it.

 

[Agvg]

Yes, you have a point there.
Its the pointers
that are rusted so I must replace it.

 

[Agvg]

Found a brand new knife for it on the barn, all so found a parts sickle bar where the gear and knife attachment was in very good shape. My old was in need of serious repair because of lack of lubrication over years of use, it had wear into the arm it self and there was hardened screws in it to take that wear from the factory but noe one cared to replace them.

 

[Agvg]

its alive, took its first round on its own power in over 20 years

 

[Agvg]

The clutch is bad

 

[Agvg]

One of the friction pads are missing.

 

[Agvg]

I do have a spare on the old engine but I must find a flywheel puller to get it of. Its a M40 with unknown treads.

 

[js5020]

Having fun yet? Its just part of the using old iron thing. Sooner or later everything gets ironed out and you end up with a good machine.