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Joe Melwiki
09-08-2006 05:44:42
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Well, this expensive story starts out like this. After rebuilding the engine in my Super C last winter, I decided to go completely over board and do a restore. Now, I know enough about engines and what not to be dangerous, and I had a few snags, but over all, it went smooth. The rest of it went well, I sand blasted all the sheet metal and had it painted at a body shop owned by a friend, they came back BETTER than brand new! I painted the tractor with IH red and it too turned out great. Infact, the entire tractor looked like it almost came off the show room floor. My problem started when it came time to fire it up, and by the way, it started right up. It was running kind of rough so I decided to slightly turn the distributor clockwise, [I did mention earlier I know enough to be dangerous and this is where it shows.] Then, BANG and a loud one too. The tractor would not start or fire and turned over real slow. You're thinking, you jumped timing and it should be OK. Well,after fooling with it for two weeks,I had a local antique tractor mechanic haul it away and that bang is up to about 1800.00 total at this point, I'll know more next week. It took out my newly rebuilt starter, the cam gear, the governer gear and a few other gears as well. To add to my misery, the mechanic called me yesterday and got it running GREAT, but now the hydraulic pump was over heating. He took it apart, and it appears some gears got ground up in there and ruined the housing as well, so that's shot too. Oh well,I guess it's cheaper than my neighbors 15000.00 John Deere that he mows his back yard with.
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