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Ken(Ark) 11-30-2012 15:34:04 173.187.227.94 Report to Moderator	Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see My first question would be why did you take it apart ? Was is smoking / using oil ? Second question would be what do you plan to do with it ? Technically you can rering it but it is on the edge of the scale . Hastings claims .012 tapper but I hate to think of the rings expanding and contracting that much on each stroke . If you are selling it or don't plan on using it much , you might get out cheap . Usable oversized pistons can be sold to help recoup some of the cost . I have custom bored blocks to tightly fit used oversized pistons . Weakest link in my opinion is the oil pump , spend the money to get it rebuilt tightly . [Reply]   [No Email]
Gustafson 12-01-2012 06:22:41 63.153.179.204 Report to Moderator	Re: 2N engine evaluation: no sleeves! in reply to Ken(Ark), 11-30-2012 15:34:04   Ken: I got this tractor from an estate. I saw the PO bushhogging with it a few times 20+ years ago, it seemed to have plenty of power and it certainly wasn't smoking. (I didn't get a chance to observe the oil pressure) Winter of '92, the PO parked it in a shed on his place...the following spring it wouldn't run, so he just walked away and there it sat until I pulled it out of the shed and opened up the engine. I found one of the exhaust valves was firmly stuck open...no doubt the cause of the twenty-years-ago troubles. I'll use this tractor to mow a 50'x 2000' strip in our pasture...maybe 6 times per year. [Reply]  [No Email]