I have seen more stuck starting valves and linkage then a rack. Because people do not know how to shut them down and when they do they will leave them on the gas side . I have been around the gas start I H diesel since 59 and the way i was taught by the head fleet mechanic was let them cool down while you were cleaning tracks greasing up and fueling up for the next day and when you park the machine you shut it down on the diesel side and leave it there till morning when you go to start it . Letting it ideal on the diesel side it will cool down faster BUT if you switch back to gas they heat up and this is one of the reasons that they crack heads . When i was a pup i worked for a vary large construction co and i could not count all the I H dozers and the gallion graders that ran the gas start diesel. When i started farming my first tractor was a 450 D and i abused it to no end i pulled 4 bottom semi mounts with a harrow on the plow and plus the fact that it was turned way up . When i sold it to a guy in Pa i showed him all i could about it and he had it for years then he sold it and it turned up back in my back yard and i saw it at the local I H dealer , walked over looked at the S/N and yep 25806 and i saw that the head was off and when i asked the one wrench that i knew well about what was wrong with it he said that HE thought that it had a cracked head and when they pulled it and had it checked there was nothing wrong with the head , i looked at Roger and said cam bushing in the injection pump wright . He looked at me funny and said how did you know , well when i bought it it had a miss and i asked the best I H mechanics around here what might be the cause of the miss and all said head . Well i tore the tractor down myself and sent the head out for magnfluxing and when that did not turn up anything we did a high pressure test with 200 degree water and still no cracks . Put it back together with a fresh valve job and yep still a miss a fart and a back fire . The way i figured pout what was wrong with mine was my buddy had a 450 and we started swapper parts , when we swapped out the pumps mine ran great his missed farted and backfired . Took the pump to RISh equipment and and old fart that worked in the pump room fixed it and he was the one that tweaked the pump and spent some time teaching me about that pump . Since the days working for the construction company and myself i have learned a lot more about these old diesels and i am still learning .
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