I am overhauling two Fordson Dexta tractors. One has a blown head gasket, but is requiring new liners, pistons and bearings along with a new radiator. I have triple checked the liners and came to realize that the Perkins type flanged liners may fit with just a counter bore on the top. Before I thought the replacement liners were of a larger diameter, but they apparently are not.
The second Dexta may need a complete overhaul. The maximum oil pressure drops below 10 psi after about 35-45 minutes of mowing.I won't know until I drop the oil pan and check the oil pump and bearing clearances. It smokes a little so I may go ahead and do the top and bottom.
I had gotten both of these more than a year and a half ago, but I knew they were going to need more than a little TLC.
I had also acquired a used but sound Dexta block that had spun a bearing. I just finished checking out the main bearing saddles and block top and the are fine (That one I sweated out). I had to get a new crankshaft, because it is almost as cheap as having one ground these days.
The only problem now is we are repeatedly getting hit with rain and I don't like working in wet weather unless the building is dry and warm which it is not.
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