It ended up in my shed, and this week, it came to life.
After completely stripping and checking over, it was reassembled.
2x of the pistons were stuck in the liners, internally was half full of water and gravel, and was missing a water pump, starter motor and injector pump.
It came out of a boat, but did have the tractor sump on it. I think it had been recently rebuilt, as it showed little wear. The bearings were all good, and gaskets also.
I was able to get away with doing rings, gaskets, water pump, servicing the injectors and fitting a tractor exhaust manifold, instead of the marine manifold.
As it was a spare time(whats that) project, during reassembly, I fitted the rocker shaft and then left it for a couple of months. When trying to fire it up, it would fire but not run. After checking the timing and spill timing, I finally remembered that I had not set the valve clearances,
as I had also recut the the valves seats and valves. Once the swear words were said, and valves set, it fired straight up.
Sounds nice too. It's hard to beat the sound of nice running Fordson.
It will probably end up in my 57 Major.
