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It's been a little while since I posted my tractor on here and I've had many people asking how it's going and what I've been up to with my major so here goes...

By September I'd got the wings on and a few little jobs squared up, I was planning to take the 3 furrow reversible you can see on the New Holland ploughing but it would only just manage to lift it off the floor so any chance of it lifting it out the ground was going to be slim, so the assister ram I've got is now on the bench ready for a when I've got some time. I needed to shine the boards up on my match plough anyway so me and the old man set off in partnership... although we had no break downs, using the tractor was becoming hard work as the injection pump was constantly hunting and surging which was contributing to wheel slip and a bad back so i planned to take it off and send it away and reconditioned.

Now into the last week in January and a week off work, I set to and removed the injection pump and injectors and took them into the local diesel specialists, popped round to the local hydraulic suppliers and got all the fittings pipes and olives to renew all the leaking diesel pipes and to fit an oil pressure line to the new engine which i had never had... at working temperature - Idle 20psi --- 1600 rpm 50psi how does that sound? I the refitted the Reconditioned injectors with new nozzles and injection pump, set all the valve clearances and set to making all the new pipework up. Below are the results and if you look at my album there's many more I've not included - http://s1280.photobucket.com/user/Stu_F ... t=2&page=1









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A bit of snow along the way.


Ploughing back in September - http://youtu.be/oJPBCcseTtg
A video of it running after the fuel system overhaul - http://youtu.be/GvUMsCJmBR0
Running the Ford 4100 to get it warm ready for an oil change - http://youtu.be/QKGQp3e9Ilc

Cheers

Sounds nice. You will have to see how she is under a load next. Just below the fuel filter, is that an Hour Meter? Dandy Dave!

Yes it is, I'm going to put it on the dynamometer this morning to see how it is working under load and set the fueling screw. Hopefully I'll put a video on later.

Cheers

Hello Stu
Would love to see your tractor on the dyno. Could you explain what is happening when you do it?
Best, Adrian.

Yes i'm just uploading the video onto youtube now and I can do a write up on it explaining the whole process and what and why i'm doing it if you want. ps RE your battery I've just put a 800CCA battery on mine and at -8 degrees c she has no trouble without any heat and fire straight into life on the 2st or 2nd turn although this is a slightly later engine and possibly a little more refined fuel system.

Can you tell me if there was a copper washer in the base of the injector holes as well as the washer on the base of the injectors??

Hi Robert no there's just the one on each injector, this is the same for every single engine I've ever worked on, that doesn't mean that some have more than one and I can't see a reason to ever fit 2, I think it's safe to take an educated guess that yours 2 should only have one.

Heres my injectors...



Cheers Fletch