Dad and Grand-Dad ran a garage for 50 years, mostly specializing in IH and Farmall stuff. Some time after Grand-Dad died, a distant cousin on Grand-dad's side of the family had a Farmall B he wanted "restored." He told us the engine had been running 6 months previously, but when we picked it up, the engine was stuck tighter than a bull's a** at fly time. We tried the simple stuff to try to break the engine loose, but figured out quickly it wasn't gonna work. Finally we pulled the head and the pan, and found where the #2 piston rod was almost horseshoe-shaped by the efforts of the LAST guy who tried to break the engine loose. We finally had to drive that one out.
When we got to the carb, we knew there was no way this engine had run in the shape it was in; the ignoramus who had it apart last had "forgotten" to put the venturi back in the carburetor.
After the ordeal, we got the tractor up and running, refreshed and painted for the local show that the cousin had given us as a deadline. Since he WAS a cousin, Dad and I cut him break on the labor [which was probably too cheap to begin with]. To reward us for our efforts, he stiffed us on the entire bill.
Expect that as the norm, if you plan to do restorations. I mean, if it's gonna come out of your own pocket anyway, you may as well own the tractors you restore to begin with.
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