Recent content by snowklaw

Wolfman, here's another thread with conflicting information regarding sleeves. https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10494 This thread makes it sound like the 0.5 re-bore is an option, if not preferred, to pressing in new sleeves... Just sharing what I found.

Thanks Wolfman, I don't see it as mean... I appreciate the feedback. Interesting about the directional pistons. I did not know that. The machine shop advised me to bore out the cylinders... Being new to all this, I just went with it. The two pistons that are hitting the valves are turned the...

SidecarFlip thanks for the new ideas! Both are things I have not checked nor would I have known to do so. I'm going to pull the head the first chance I get. On assembly, I did notice that the pistons cleared the deck but I assumed that was normal to void the additional space created by the...

Thanks Aster for the prompt response. I reset my center gear so that all the timing marks matched up yesterday... I thought "this is it, this will do the trick..." It's exactly the same as before.

One of the crank bearings on my tractor spun so I rebuilt the bottom of the d750 on my B7100; new crank bearings, pistons and rings. The crank journals all got machined. The block was tested and the cylinders were bore out to accommodate the over-sized pistons. On start-up it would blow all...