The WD-9 Saga Continues

It was a cold, drizzly day when I pulled into d282s driveway...Well, it really was but there is no need to go back to this summer.

The highlights:
- Head has been done since Sept.
- 12 injectors are back with 4 good ones.
- Bought a spare injection pump, straight RUSTY fenders, and ??? from a local junkyard.
- Cyls 1 and 4 were pretty pitted and bearings were pretty worn. Found a parts motor somewhat close.
- Bought a parts motor from way up north.
- Began disassembly of parts motor about 1 month ago.

That brings us up to a week ago. I finally got time to take the parts motor apart all the way. I pulled the crank and pushed the pistons out the bottom. Two required a little love from a mall and block of wood. The other two pulled out by hand. The two that needed help were #1 and #4. Is it a trend in the 9 series??? The #1 piston is a little rusty on the top, but better than my #1/#4. It doesn't matter I now have 6 to make a good set of 4.

The issue (and why I have been too mad to post an update) is I broke the bottoms of EVERY sleeve in the motor during disassembly. I was working from a pallet because I don't own an engine stand that I trust with a diesel 9 series motor (and all the mounts can't handle the 5/8" bolts that I would need to use) From the looks of things I smacked the rods off the sleeves at some point in time and it broke them out.

The upside is I got another parts motor from the local scrapyard out of a TD-9. In talking with the guy who took it there it has been rebuilt in the last 30 years. Hopefully it was rebuilt with 4.5" pistons and I won't have to worry about getting 2 good sleeves out of it. He said it spun a bearing and has sat for a long time. I tried to turn it over and it didn't spin, but I didn't use a very big wrench. This one came with the head and everything so I have to pull the head off to see what I have. To make things worse I had a buyer for 2 sleeves. He has a 650 D and needed 1 good sleeve. He was just going to punch out one of my 4.4" sleeves. The other downside is out of four motors I can't get one set of rod or main bearings that I want to use. One has big scratches and the other you can see brass(?) showing.

Just thought I would update you guys now that I cooled off enough to talk about it. I do have one question. After I get the other fender off what would you do before painting? The motor will be coming out to go to the shop.

Some pics of the damage and the lack of progress


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why didnt you just give it a little hone clean up and remove piston from top? check to see if the piston skirt does not reach those breaks or even if it does , i would not be scared to reuse those sleeves if they arnt worn too much.looks like skirt dosnt. just grind a nice chamfer on the breaks and that engine will never know the difference. gotta do what you have to when parts are scarce. good luck.
i sure dont know whats with these wd9's now that everybody wants one and 20-30 yrs ago couldnt give them away. lots went for scrape also. remember them as being called a big old clumsey tractor.

If the sleeves don't look any worse than the one pictured just chamfer the edge off and go.

I went out the bottom because the engine (if this one is used) will go into the engine shop and get line honed on the machine. It didn't really matter which way they went out. The sleeves were broke before the pistons came out, not from that process.

On the top sleeve picture I think you can see where the rings usually run. That is a touch above the broke areas. Can they magnaflux them and check for cracks? Since it looks like I have to spend $1000+ on bearings I don't want the rest of the engine to shell on me.

standard procedure is from the top but. yep check for cracks and go to it. you'll be fine.
was just thinkin you could turn them 90 degrees so your not on a trust side with the breaks. but depends how much wear the sleeves have. get them checked too.

Looks like a good place to work on the old girl. Looks like an old dairy barn. I've seen stantions that look just like that in my lifetime.


Billy

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(quoted from post at 08:03:28 01/26/12) Looks like a good place to work on the old girl. Looks like an old dairy barn. I've seen stantions that look just like that in my lifetime.


Billy

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It's a tight squeeze going through the door, but it works. Not much head room for getting an M in. I am going to start tearing into the second parts motor this weekend. Let me know what beer to buy if your coming down. :lol:

I'm an equal opportunity employer when it comes to grain sarsaparilla...but I'm a High Life, Old Milwaukee, Old Style kind of guy.

have wd 9 or td 9 motor parts i would sell i no longer need them as i sold my dozer