MANY years (probably about 1978) ago a neighbor who was REALLY short on cash had a fairly low hour Deere 4630 ruin a piston and score a sleeve and simply DIDN'T have the money for a complete OH.
His son, a few years younger than me (and still a good friend) was trying to get the crop in.
A machinist friend of mine had a couple of pistons and sleeves from an OH'ed engine that had only run a couple of hours before it came apart do to an error on the part of the "mechanic" that assembled it.
ANYHOW, we installed the one slightly used piston and sleeve and he got the crop put in. I REALLY got some "bad press" from wagging tongues who chastised for for doing such a thing. Funny part is, he got the crop in for his Dad.
The Dad lost the farm a couple of years latter and the son was able to get the tractor and pulled the HECK out of it for a number of years on a Wil-Rich airseeder and STILL uses it for odd jobs.
It is STILL running well at something like 11,000 hours.
So, SOMETIMES not doing things quite in textbook fashion DOES work!
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