Allan,IAGary- - - I was wrong......Kinda??

Posted by Brokenwrench on January 02, 2007 at 15:07:54 from (69.128.198.84):

Remember the FIL`s 1086 without a turbo. It was supposed to have one, and now does.
Here`s the story,
FIL has owned this tractor for about 10 years.
Since he owned it none of the electronic guages have worked. Everything really did seem patched together on the whole thing. I remember when he bought it, him talking about how cheap it was. Now my FIL is a great guy, but he`s known for his being very cheap, and really unwilling to fix anything right. One of those "run`er til she drops guys". Drives me nuts.
Anyway, this last fall, I was chopping corn for him, and I noticed the tractor was making a ticking noise. Told him and he said it had been doing that for the last couple weeks, don`t worry about it. The next weekend, I was over there and he had the hood off and the valve cover off. Said he was replacing a leaking valve cover gasket. I got looking and found what was causing the ticking noise, a broken rocker arm. FIL said he`d get one from the salvage yard. I warned him to have the valves set, when he went back together. I could just see that glazed over look in his eyes. SO, the next day he gets her all back together, fires her up, and she lunches the cam shaft out. What does the dumb old son-in-law know anyway.
Long story short, 1086 gets completly tore down by a very reputable shop. She gets totally majored, and everything gets put back right.
Now all the guages work, and it really does run nice. The only thing he didn`t have done, was to have the play taken out of the shift linkages.
I didn`t get alot of details out of my FIL, about the total extent of the work done. He`s still really sore about having to lay a big chunk of change down, so I didn`t press him real hard.
At christmas, when I brought it up about why his 1086 wasn`t turbo`d, he got this goofy look on his face, and said, "for what it cost me to replace everything between the grill and the cab, it d@*n well better have one now". So I just kinda dropped that discussion.
BTW the grandpas 1086 was turbo`d, I found out from an uncle, I was dead wrong on that one.
Later Brokenwrench

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