The Story So Far.I hope somebody can help me with this. My father finally decided it was time to up grade our Fergie TE-A-20 to something with a front end loader. After weeks of looking in the paper we finally found something suitable. We went and had a look at it. It was a petrol Massey Ferguson 35.
It was running a bit rough and needed new tyres but we bought it any way. We got it home and bought new points, HT leads, and spark plugs. We changed them and still she was missing. I decided that the valve cleareances must be wrong so the next morning I took the valve cover off and found something i did not want to find. There had obviously been no oil getting through the the rocker arm and rust had set in so I cleaned it up as best I could and actually got her running pretty nice. The other day I was out doing some chain harrowing and I ran out of petrol so i poured some petrol out of my boat tank into the tractor, unfornuatley the gas had salt water in it and the tractor started missing. I managed to limp her back to the shed where i flushed out all the lines and poured new petrol in. I started her up and still the constant miss. I shut her off and didn't start her up again until the next morning. She fired up quickly and i pulled the choke fully open and walked away to get something. I heard the tractor die and just figured that the pertrol must be too rich and she stalled, i turned the key and she wouldn't start she gave just gave the occasional poof then died. I couldn't be bothered mucking around with it so I gave the local mechanic a call. He came down and couldn't get it to star he took the carb away and reconditioned it. Still no start. We then compression tested it and found the compressions to be extremly low. We concluded that the head gasket must be leaking so i pulled the head off. I lapped the valves in and repaired a leaking frost plug. Today i put it all back togeather with a new head gasket. Crossing my fingers i turned the key and still no start just the occasional poof. I pulled the spark plugs out and there is plenty of petrol over them and there seems to be enough spark. I have just about had enough of this tractor and am thinking of selling it for scrap if I can't get it going soon. The thing i can't get is that it was running fine one day and wouldn't start the next. Any help would be much appreciated as I am totally out of ideas and am getting pretty feed up. Thank you Scott
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