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Re: Rebuilding diesels
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Posted by Ken Macfarlane on August 31, 2004 at 13:58:06 from (142.166.9.50):
In Reply to: Re: Rebuilding diesels posted by TheRealRon on August 31, 2004 at 12:21:44:
Ok, say I'm not concerned about compression as long as the tractor still starts. Is it wise to replace the bearings in the bottom end? I'm not looking to have a new tractor out of this exercise as it could also use a tranny job, hydraulic pump, and the loader cylinders, plumbing and joystick valve rebuilt. I can't justify a couple of thousand on a new crank and thousands more on machine work etc if it loses a bearing. The tractor is worth about 10,000$ or so but we want to get a smaller tractor to replace this one with. I'm gun shy now because I recently had a car that had good oil pressure and ran well until it developed a knock 200 km from home, 10 km later it spit a con rod out the side of the block. It was full of oil the whole time and the oil pump was good, just lost the bearing on the last journal that gets oil.
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