BravoXray
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- Joined
- Dec 17, 2019
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- 2,648
- Location
- Nothern Indiana
- Tractor
- Kubota BX2230, John Deere 430 Diesel
I spent all afternoon slowly reassembling things today. It doesn't seem like I get much done, but there are so many little things to do, and some of the bigger things end up taking two or three times as long as they should. For instance the distributor. Normally it takes a few minutes to get it set so the rotor points at #1 cylinder and it drops in and engages the oil pump drive shaft. Not this time, after about a dozen tries taking over half an hour, it finally dropped in in the correct position. That shaft is REALLY picky about just how it's turned to for it to drop in, but I finally got it.
Yesterday I pulled all the plugs and cleaned them up in the bead blaster, as they were pretty sooted up from the initial running before the EFI got the A/F ratio adjusted. The first half hour of running, it was really rich, smelled really bad.
Today, I got both headers, steering box, clutch linkage, distributor cap and wires, fan, pulley and fan on, heater hoses connected and also did some more wire and cable management as it's pretty crowded around the steering column and clutch linkage. I also spent a while looking for the bolt the goes in the rag joint to clamp it on the steering box shaft. Searched all over, even sifted through all the oil-dri I had put down when the gear lube and coolant got spilled. Never found it, so I stole the one out of the old rag joint. Good thing I keep a lot of the old parts.
Tomorrow, I'll get the radiator, hoses and coolant installed, the engine dipstick put back in, fill it with oil, put on the air cleaner and then wrestle the exhaust pipes back on. I'll save the worst for last.
Oh, and I have to put the stick back on the trans and install the shifter boot, and other than putting the hood on, it should be pretty well wrapped up.
I might even get to drive it to the Essen Haus cruise-in next Thursday.
Yesterday I pulled all the plugs and cleaned them up in the bead blaster, as they were pretty sooted up from the initial running before the EFI got the A/F ratio adjusted. The first half hour of running, it was really rich, smelled really bad.
Today, I got both headers, steering box, clutch linkage, distributor cap and wires, fan, pulley and fan on, heater hoses connected and also did some more wire and cable management as it's pretty crowded around the steering column and clutch linkage. I also spent a while looking for the bolt the goes in the rag joint to clamp it on the steering box shaft. Searched all over, even sifted through all the oil-dri I had put down when the gear lube and coolant got spilled. Never found it, so I stole the one out of the old rag joint. Good thing I keep a lot of the old parts.
Tomorrow, I'll get the radiator, hoses and coolant installed, the engine dipstick put back in, fill it with oil, put on the air cleaner and then wrestle the exhaust pipes back on. I'll save the worst for last.
Oh, and I have to put the stick back on the trans and install the shifter boot, and other than putting the hood on, it should be pretty well wrapped up.
I might even get to drive it to the Essen Haus cruise-in next Thursday.
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