Re: Farmall H engine kits

Posted by WIRED on November 12, 2003 at 06:55:11 from (156.46.176.10):

In Reply to: Farmall H engine kits posted by SCOTT IN MO on November 11, 2003 at 17:27:58:

I purchased one this summer for my '41 H. Quality was good.

My big gripe is with the gaskets. There was no gasket map, and I feel there should have been one. When I finished, I had about 10 extra gaskets, and I took EVERY nut and bolt off of that tractor. During reassembly, I carefully followed the parts manual diagrams. Some of the gaskets were duplicates, and that didn't make any sense. Some of the extra gaskets were things like a rubber oil filter gasket which usually comes with the oil filter. I don't know if it was sloppy kit assembly or if the kit I bought could be used on other models/years of tractors. Long story short, I would have saved a lot of time cross-referencing my parts manual diagrams if they would have provided a gasket map.

When you buy the kit, all you are getting is a box of parts, and they assume you've rebuilt engines many times before. That wasn't the case for me, and had it not been for this board, I would never have known that wrist pin bushings need to be professionally installed and bored, you need a ring compression tool to install the pistons, and most paper gaskets should be painted with a gasket sealant prior to installation.

Just my opinion, but it wouldn't take TISCO much effort to put together a rebuild "cheat sheet" and insert it in with all rebuild kits. Experienced rebuilders could throw it out, and those of us who do this once in a blue moon would have a degree of confidence in what we were doing.

My project turned out excellent, but that's due to good advice I gathered here, from my IH dealer, and from my machine shop -- not from TISCO.

WIRED

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