Re: stupid tractor prices,

Posted by buickanddeere on February 03, 2005 at 14:04:49 from (192.75.48.150):

In Reply to: Re: stupid tractor prices, posted by brtx on February 03, 2005 at 07:50:36:

I've spent more fixing older vehicles than what paying for new ones would have cost. When done repairing an old vehicle, all that you have left is bills to pay and an old vehicle.
For five years I've been stuck with incompetent high school dropouts who got an auto apprenticeship.
Errors made were…. Over torqued fuel injector body and split it. New replacement injector internal valve stuck wide open.
Too long a bolt in the rear main/oil pump, pushed the main bearing into the crank.
The balancer shaft had a late roller bearing installed in the early block and the oil holes didn't line up. The cam sprocket was installed without the bushing and timing was grossly advanced at least 12+ degrees.
The heads were machined for guide plates for the adjustable rocker arms. They took too much metal off and the adjustment lock nuts could not tighten. So they just ground the bottom off the lock nut to gain adjustment. Then they reused these locknuts over at every rebuild even though I supplied shorter push rods to compensate for new nuts could be used. Valve lash kept working loose and valve train would get noisy.
The 3rd engine was dropped and busted the distributor but they stuck it in there and said nothing. They also broke the windshield, heater/AC housing and a body trim piece. To finish it off the test run consisted of a low gear, foot on the floor sprint just to see how many rpms she would make. That mashed the valve springs which caused a hard to find mid+ rpm miss. Who would ever expect to look for that?
Also forgot, the engine over heated due to a plugged cat converter which had been saturated when the broke fuel body was spraying raw unmetered fuel into the intake manifold. Had to remove and machine square the intake manifold as it warped/leaked coolant.

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