Getting closer to finishing the in frame overhaul but I may be tearing it back down. I put in new sleeves, pistons, bearings in. I put the rotating assembly together and spun it over and all worked fine, no noises, sounded smooth. I got the head up on her set the vaulves and she got exteemly hard to turn. I loosened the head and she spun again and I retorqued it down. I have the starter out and move the flywheel with a bar a ways and it seems fine. What was the catch earlier? I also was rocking the tractor and noticed the motor didn't turn. I tried that in 3rd and 4th gear. Thanks
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rustred
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its hard to figure out what your doing when you say she got extremly hard to turn. turning by hand or with starter? its a diesel engine and it just wont spin over that easy.like ya it will spin over easy with the head loose as your not building compression.also you will not rock it either and turn the engine over, by hand i presume.all may be ok or maybe not just cant tell from little info here. also is it factory pistons being put back in ??. your not saying how your spinning it over. maybe you have a dragging starter. ???.
It has stock pistons in it. This is turning it over with a bar inserted through the stater hole grabbing the flywheel teeth. The rotating assy. turned free by hand and with the starter. After the head was put on it spun a little tougher with the starter. The starter was no jewel and I have a new one coming. I tried rocking by hand.
Well I put the old starter back in to try to spin it and it spun it about a 1/4 turn and got stuck. I removed the starter put the bar in and couldn't move it more than a quarter inch. Removed the head and what did I find? Carbon, lots of carbon. I'm guessing that all that soot settled down to the valves and with every rotation it let more and more in. I'll clean the head and block up re check for true etc and hopefully put it together. I didn't take the manifolds off, I just took them with the head. Shortcuts get me everytime!
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