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I ended up hitting the edge of the front plate a few times with a hammer and it popped right off! Thank you to all who have shared their knowledge! I have the front timing plate back on and gasketed along with the front end radiator and all, which makes me very happy. The next chapter is refabricati...

Great Idea! i will try that and let you know what happens!!

Thank you for all the feed back!

I was able to easily remove the 3 hex bolts from the front plate of the crank pulley, now how do I go about getting the plate off? Do I need a puller?

Thanks for responding to my question Andy,

The crank shaft pulley on my Dexta looks identical to yours accept like I said there is no center bolt on the face to be undone.

I could email you a picture of what im dealing with, i cant seem to figure out how to post a picture directly on to this site.

Hello, Last year I started restoring a 3cyl Diesel 957E Fordson Dexta. I live in North America and although there are many tractor mechanics in my area that have experience working with Diesel Perkins motors, not many have experience working with the Dexta directly. It has been a slow and steady pro...