Posted by jlg on July 05, 2011 at 15:53:43 from (24.170.225.234):
In Reply to: G JD posted by Mike Eneboe on July 04, 2011 at 18:01:19:
I'd 2nd the alluminum piston idea. Usually you'd have to clean up the bore's, but since you just overhauled it 4 years ago, I would think you could slide in a set of .045 over M&W's and be fine. When I bought mine a few years ago they were $450, and came with rings, and wrist pins. Then it's another ~$115 for a head gasket, manifold gasket, lead washers, and silicon, so you can do the swap. I did that to my 1950 "G", then later added the cold manifold, and a reground camshaft. It's now 58hp on the dyno, and a different machine. I can easily pull 3 16's anywhere around here. It ran warm until I put replaced the fanshroud that was missing when I bought the tractor. Now it's fine, even plowing all afternoon on a warm day.
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