Posted by ScottyHOMEy on October 20, 2009 at 16:53:49 from (71.241.203.43):
In Reply to: Re: Engine advice posted by Dave H (MI) on October 20, 2009 at 14:36:40:
A battery or a hand crank depending on his ignition. Not a bad idea, but it depends on the stand.
I thought about it with both the IH motors I've gone through, but didn't quite dare to. Mine is a fairly lightweight stand (1000#) to begin with, of the usual design of two legs sticking out from the endwith the rotating mount. It did a perfectly adequate job as far as holding the motor up for the rebuild, but still bounced quite enough, thank you (and whew!), just beating the stuck pistons out of the sleeves. I could have rigged a gas tank to either motor just to see if they would fire, but I worried about running any length of time just because there would have been a lot of vibration and I couldn't be sure how the stand, on its narrow axis, would react to the torque from revving and the like. Folks better schooled than I in such things may be able to jump in, but I think there's probably some difference between an engine stand for holding it up for work, and a test stand. I just never quite dared. Maybe with a heavier-rated stand with a wider stance . . . but still not a long run.
In Mark's case, I think he's confident that it will run and fire, but he's rightly concerned about what's making the smoke and I suspect he'd have to put the motor into the tractor -- that or get on some sort of test stand (that might include a dyno to load the motor up and let it run for some time) to get an idea whether his problem might be broken rings or merely stuck with a hope of freeing them up.
For a short run just to make sure it will fire, yeah. But I've got a feeling it would shake enough that it's not anything that a regular work stand is up to for a run long enough to actually evaluate anything.
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