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Started working on the rear de mill damage on the tractor, trial fit of the engine cover. Come along, hydraulic jack, hammer, lumber and sign post all employed to move the metal back where it belongs.
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I have a couple of bent vanes on my hood and have not had much luck trying to straighten them out.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
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I have a few as well, I will look them over and see what can be done.
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I had just a few on the rear that were bent, I used a pair of needle nose pliers using a twisting motion on the end of the vane nearest the bend. In effect rolling the end of the vane slightly as when these bend it is stretching the aluminum. They will never be perfect but are closer.
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Here it is Mark, surprisingly clean considering where it has been for the last 20 years or so. It will be in the mail tomorrow.
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Just had to buy that pump minus the spring and plunger. Red River has NOS ones for $10
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Mark and I like to recycle old crap, we're trying to save the planet
Did he by chance have the oil lines from the pump to the t-case?
Did he by chance have the oil lines from the pump to the t-case?
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Thanks Tom, yes I have revived many parts from Tom and Mark, without them I would not have a working machine. Gives me great satisfaction and a better appreciation of it knowing where the parts came from and the bit of extra effort rebuilding them. My most recent rebuild was the one wiper arm I had, blasted, primed and painted it, could have easily ordered one but now I only had to buy one.
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Me too, by the time I am up and running my goat will have parts in it from at least 8 different machines, kind of a Goat of many colors, or perhaps more like Johnny Cash's psycobilly Cadillac!
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We had a pretty good parts circle going until I blew it and sold mine. I actually just moved the engine block out of the shop for the scrap guy to pick up tomorrow.
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Received a few parts, wiper arm, mirrors, snap studs for the seats and some decals. I already had a hearing decal but looking through the manual I had the wrong one, don't want the goat police pointing that out. Took a M151 jeep fuel sending unit that was not working and turned it into a gama goat sender. Took it apart and cleaned the connections then simply swapped out the float/arm for the longer goat arm. The upper half is identical as well as the specs.
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Tom, oil pump arrived today and is pumping oil, very pleased. Of course now that something is working the starter is now acting up, making a terrible racket when starting, previous start perfect then the racket.
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It'll drive a body bonkers, won't it!?
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Gee, it looks cleaner than when I sent it, what happened?
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I took it apart and gave it a good cleaning, actually looked new inside. I didn't bother trying the hand priming, I pulled oil through it with a suction gun and when I test drove it I could see oil pumping through the clear tube.
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Glad that worked out!
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That did but now something is binding my engine up, it will barely turn over and it's making a terrible noise when cranking and cranking slow even with the slave, sounds like the noise is in the front of the engine near the bell housing, it's obvious something is wrong as the engine is struggling to idle as well and low on power. What's strange is that it doesn't make the same noise when running. The starter and wires are getting hot when starting so it's struggling to turn the engine over, before it was an instant start, couldn't tell the starter even spun. With only 3 weeks to the rally it isn't looking good.
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Did you rebuild your fuel pump? When we did mine we found that the yoke on the back of the fuel pump was bent.
After replacing it the engine turned over much better and smooth, just something to check.
Warthog went and looked at some engines for me in Oklahoma, they are there and complete but have set out in the open for several years.
Check the fuel pump, could be causing both problems.
After replacing it the engine turned over much better and smooth, just something to check.
Warthog went and looked at some engines for me in Oklahoma, they are there and complete but have set out in the open for several years.
Check the fuel pump, could be causing both problems.