Stuck Engine Tips
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Posted by Eric Tessmer on June 10, 1998 at 08:26:43:
I know that nobody has asked for this but before I forget, household olive oil works well for un-sticking engines. You just have to be patient. A truck I bought was stuck and so I let it for about a week and hammered on the pistons with a block of wood. You can also force the piston out by rigging up a plate of metal with four holes in it to four head bolts, which would be set up to push a block of wood down on the piston (and thusly out of it's stuck position) and just give each bolt a crank or so every time you pass by. Because the truck was built in the forties it was adaptable to a crank, so after some experimentation I found that the crank from a Farmall B fit it just fine. Then I got the crank so it was as perpendicular to the ground as I could get it and then pulled it with my Farmall M. It worked like a charm but I'm sure it could have some possible harmful side effects, but it doesn't seem to have done anything of the bad nature to the truck, which now runs like there is no tomorrow. Just occurred to me that this web page ought to have a dictionary of different ways to unstick an engine and the like.
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