Is The Engine Savable? Homemade Tractor Buried Under A House, pt2

speaking well that sure looks like something mad max would put together huh back before his time so the axle is definitely locked up the brake drums are locked up the engine has looks like a mouse nest in the front of it and then sometimes you put a tarp over something it actually makes things worse and it's kind of probably what happened with this and it did a lot of corrosion but everything is pretty simple on it straightforward and mechanical i think we'll have a good time trying to resurrect it without further ado when we say we get that hood off of there we'll start looking into the engine and getting that shroud off and getting the critters out of it and see if we got spark and all that kind of good stuff hey guys and how's it going hey we're going to continue on this homemade tractor built in the 60s last episode we dragged it out from underneath the house it's at i don't know my guess is 15 years or so at least stuck down inside there and although we tried to get her to fire up and run we had no spark is where we left off engine seems like a spin's okay didn't have any issues with that it just had this funky coil set up on it right there and we went through every possibility to try to get around it and have it be cured but it wasn't having it a bunch of tar was dripping down below the magnets down here from the uh the packing that was around the coil and then when we buzzed it out it was open and at one point we got it to kind of show good resistance going across the windings and out the other side but that didn't uh last very long and it the whole time never had any spark well since then i got a replacement coil for it hopefully it's the right one you got to punch out the core from the other one and install it in this so without further ado let's start getting into it see if we can get this thing to run there's a couple of funky clips on here it was so rusty when i first took it apart you couldn't even tell it was two separate pieces unless you just lift right up out of there magnets holding it in the wire to the bench let's see we can mark it so we know which way i can i guess we're going to call this the right side and i don't know about let me put it in the press doesn't look like it's going to come out of there all that easy we have to even cut all that stuff off of there let's make sure that that's even going to fit looks like it's a little on the larger side doesn't it i'm not sure that's going to be the there it goes is it stepped is one side larger than the other man i think it's just some flashing on the end of this right here all right let's go to press see if we can go tap that out of there let's go just try beating on it in the vice first see you should move for us did it move i think it just did in the last one yeah i guess bending over the end i don't want to do that driver home probably have to get down inside there with a brass rod or something [Music] i'll clean that up on a wire wheel so that's tight i don't want to play lube on there or not i'll go for a little great i think it's going to hurt it right i just don't want to split this casing open trying to knock it down you could draw that in slower with the vice hope it's the right way push that amount of plastic out of there that's not good not sure where that came from hopefully it did not cut into any kind of windings oh i'm gonna go find out i'm gonna go center that a little bit more too fed that through the sheet metal and then we'll put that end on there it's got a little stabber in the middle it just crushes down on the wire and then you fold it over i think that crushed it yeah sure it stands up it's got a it's got to pierce it try that i still have a jumper wire going around to the points i don't have the one that was built into it but hopefully you get something oh yeah first crack us off nice get you in yeehaw you there what that means don't you go get some gas i'm going to bet that carb isn't messing we still need to go deal with that but we're going to do a little bit of cool down the plug hole hopefully be able to get the fire with the drill i still have to make a one-way clutch up for drills so that once it starts it can freeze feel a free spin unfortunately i don't have it right yet see what we get see if she'll go i don't think the drill's gonna do it the drill doesn't have enough snot to get it up over the hill that is where good old electric drills come in handy let's give that a shot you go from a bit adapter 3 8 to half inch half inch to three quarter to a deep socket you're going the wrong way and it gets that's fast that's slow let's see if this will do it without breaking my wrist and spun all the nut and everything right off too it fired right off nice all right let's keep going all right next we got to get that carb off we're going to look and see what's going on inside there the fuel was shut off i think on the gas tank whether it had fuel in the car but not is gonna be anyone's guess but hopefully it comes out clean but we gotta go kind of go through it anyway i wanna make sure that's uh good to go so let's get we got one two there it might be one underneath on a tab and then just the throttle linkage that comes up to it on the other side yeah that should be kind of like bouncy like a spring seems like it's just gonna stay wherever you put it four rpm yeah looking back in there remove the throttle he sees like a bunch of it's like it's got it rubbing up against the bowl let's get this crap out of the way yes that shouldn't be rubbing on there that should be a straight shot up and down with no drag to work the governor i have a feeling this probably had a spring on it a little tab and this is an adjustment for the governor i guess we'll worry about that when we get it apart yeah i know somebody put that band it kind of looks like a factory bend though right a little kick in that it does yeah let's get the carb off got to take the fuel line off linkage is gonna fight us which one's gonna be easier to work around you can get to turn up sideways we can get the link job it was on the furthermost hole all the way out on the bottom remember that go to the bench let's see we get i'm thinking that linkage was on backwards and when i'm looking at it and i had that offset in it the offset is supposed to go the other direction and clear that bolt we'll find out when we put it back together but i bet you wasn't running very well that way it was probably just maintaining one rpm and it never raised or lowered the throttle so this one probably goes all the way through and needs to come out hold on a minute all right where were we so rudely interrupted so i believe this one has a it'll be inside here this is just the air fuel mix for the main and it's got some crap around it and then we get a longer one that's in there see we got the screwdrivers that will fit and that one kind of goes through the center of it i'm not like that that's the brass kind of breaking away there we go he needs some lube a little tweaking on the the craftsman i don't think they have a warranty anymore do they actually didn't somebody take over some lowe's took over the craftsman toolboy they might be still warranting it there we go get one that fits all the way across and has some loop for the sides there's a joke there however this looks when it comes out because this goes right through the ball chamber it's all cruddy looking then we'll know that not too bad all right let's go get that one mosquito in here we're just getting into spring finally the weather's getting nice here outside you hear motorcycles going by there's one right there up here in new england you hit 50 degrees it's riding weather again everybody gets especially in the springtime you go down florida it's 50 degrees no one's out almost no one but around here convertibles everybody's all pent up from the winner all right hopefully this is not too bad we're going to soak it either way but let's go give her who's your daddy yep i have to kill the gasket the gasket has a port the float ball right there and um unfortunately it looks like it's broke around it i don't think i have one let me go get a a thin little blade let's go try it with a screwdriver i'll stick like a putty knife around there get it to break free from one of the sides we'll just leave it stay with the other side it looks like yeah we grab a putty knife we'll try the hook where was it stuck we wanted to go with the top correct yeah cuz i can't get around i can't get the knife into where the that jet is that passage rather could you make one yeah right not bad awesome hopefully the float is good we're gonna go throw that in there and see if it floats let's get the pin out of it it's tapped in we've got to tap it out did we save the gasket which port is it it's this one right here comes in no that's fine some of them they have a the passage like say this line coming in it comes in a different spot runs through a passage and then into the carb this one does not use that i do believe no fuel fuels going through there good let's go tap that pin out of there we might be able to get that gasket off once that pin is out and we can soak the whole thing ultrasonic cleaner yeah somebody's definitely been in here before us because some of this stuff just looks too good a shape the gaskets and your tools just a little too big grow up they're almost there yeah that's been replaced that is not a a 60 year old setup that my punch won't go all the way through get the pin all the way up i'm gonna grab a pair of pliers and give it a little so oh not going to worry about that one that one's easy to the pool everybody in and we'll set her for let's go half hour 50 is good buzz away hey well that's doing his thing we could probably jump on something else we have we got a break that's frozen and no breaks all the breaks have to be gone through we could probably wouldn't hurt to change the way i don't know maybe we'll run it a little bit and then we'll change the oil let's splash up all the crap that's in it and settled in the bottom and wash it fluid mask this on the bricks steering looks like it's all functional chain these lube the belt will look into we'll run that that seems like it's fine should probably take a wire wheel what's the deal with that that's the pedal that's the titans loosens the belt with the pedal for go and no go is going to take a wire wheel and we'll clean the crap out of these knock the rust off of them and you should check the gearbox if there's anything in it in the rear i think it's all one you think it floats from one to the other or two separate chambers not sure oh i'm good with that throttle cable but nothing here moves let's uh we can free up that pivot it's either just rusted up or you may have cranked it down because that throttle was wacky like i said that that linkage was rubbing right up against the ball i think it was on backwards so let me it may be to having governor issues if it's got governor issues then we're just going to make it a gas pedal run it like a car you know i should probably take that off and hit it on the wire wheel too so the rod was on the all the way out and the spring is on the second to the last one out you remember that for me it's your job let's see if we get this whole thing out of here take it on a wire wheel clean up a little pivot points that's the end of the cable right there i'm moving it's moving on the other end but it's the it's the springiness of it that's no good pull yeah she's locked right up it's got i don't know if that's a nut that goes on that springy cable you know what i mean i guess it maybe uses it as threads i'm gonna leave that there i think we could just take the screw out right here i think it's a a straight through there's no end on it and that's the case we should be able to put vice grips on this side kind of tap down pull it out we'll clean up with a wire wheel shoot some lube through so you can get that cable to recover if not we'll find something else let's see i should be able to pull that lever right up off of it there we go that's a straight shot all right let's go give it a tug so essentially it's just a big wound piece of wire spring in the cable i'm just going to throw some oil on the outside of it and some of it may soak right through just to kind of help i don't know how rusty it is in there so it'll just kind of help it usually it's on a sharp bend is where they get it locked up that right at the very ends all right now let's get some pliers on i see you can get it we can get a good shot with the hammer going now the bracket's just pulling away spin it too so i know it's free up to here it's up in here up in here let me get you there i'm bending it cable's bending up to here and then twisting the body let's give her a little pull that right out of there there it goes definitely pretty dry right there is where it was still a rust on it so it was towards the very top let's go clean that up so you can get that to do its thing again i'm gonna hit with an air gun just blowing crap that's in the line out i didn't see anything uh massive coming out get some uh i don't know what you want to use for what i got penetrating lithium grease you can go get some of that to feed through the cable this cans kind of beat though i should take it yeah that went far let's go try the other one like it's a big spring so it can if there's any stretch in the spring anywhere yeah yeah uh i think our best bet is to lube the cable that we're putting in and we'll throw some lube on the outside because the outside becomes the inside plus it keeps it from rusting so many jokes i clean that cable up whatever i do with it here it is let's go do the same for this actually let me just grab my fingers we'll see how well that goes back i think we need the branch grips so so put it backwards come on last little bit there you go yay so judging by the way this is set up it has threads on the end of this rod here it looks like it was a snow blower could have been a tiller also but i had a throttle you just set at 1 rpm it's kind of common on those little older rototillers uh snowblowers so we want i said second hole in right second little hole in grow up that's our pivot that should have a shoulder on there let's go see what happens should have a shoulder on it that it doesn't lock up you know it might be missing this might be missing or bushing yeah because that's just going to crank right down on it you get slop enough for a bushing no all right what i'm going to do is i'm going to take a punch and whack the threads so they have a little bit of drag on them and i'll just tighten the bolt up to where you can have a little bit of free play so that's just going to loosen up for honest if i just leave it like that i don't want to put loctite in it it has a little a little love tap let's see how this works won't go in at all that's a piece of wire wheel i did not put it in the hole i was pretty premature on my insertion the top rod is not and i should hook it to the throttle cable too ah screwed up okay give me some room here [Music] let's hook that carb a little bit more we're gonna it's only been a 30 minutes i'm gonna reset it it just clicked off and maybe we'll get some kerosene and a brush and we'll clean this crap off of it best we can i'm not looking to restore it i'm looking to restore i don't want to paint anything i want to get everything mechanically working again just run it with the looks that it has i kind of like it uh yeah let's go do that we'll go clean that stuff out i blew it out a little bit more and then we'll try putting looking putting all the old wiring back together and the original condenser this is an aftermarket one i threw on there just to test last time we'll put a lot of stuff back together we'll see if we still have spark if not we'll change out components accordingly get that buttoned up bath time first though this is just kerosene in a spray bottle just kind of pre-soak things so about 45 minutes worth see we got it's looking pretty good go rinse that there's some water blow them out was the float still floating yep soup's done i blew everything out let's compress there check myself a q-tip seat for the needle so the fuel comes in and turns on and off i want to get good polish on it it doesn't look beat up at all no corrosion on it it's in yeah i think the last time i went to see ran somebody did the car on it so it's only 15 years old instead of 60. all right all clear all right do we have to have the gasket on i think we do before the i'm just going to piece it back together how it fell apart the majority is on just sure it's this way or flipped over the other way you think i'd see that bar across the gas gear right there is like that right right yes normally you put a drill bit under there a certain size and it tells you the gap that you set the float to it it actually looks pretty good i always just kind of go with straight across when it's flipped over i'm gonna blow in it and then flip it over and it's working i don't think we have anything else inside this do we a little broken piece we're gonna a little broken piece we're gonna piece back keep the fuel in the best we can they could use their turn on a wire wheel do i put all the old parts back on for the charging system let's go spin her over make sure we still got it well yes we do i'm gonna go check if i still have the old plug that's just some generic plug i grabbed i don't know don't know what the rating is supposed to be for it somewhere i got the original plug maybe we'll go try that to make sure it still does this thing yeah that will coil really bled out it's got a big hunker tar down sitting on the flywheel i don't know like did the engine run real hot and then because it had to be like parked when it happened you know if it was spitting out tar while it was running it'd be all over the place not just in one spot so i had to be while i would stop this happened who knows been just a hot day all right i think we can get that back on there do a rinse yeah that's definitely what it was flip that rod around now it goes around that bolt and we got a spring loaded he's got a governor inside that as it revs up it takes throttle away and you can influence that by how much cable you pull on the spring that's over here and that's the throttle cable that goes up so you're essentially forcing more throttle on it and then as it gets up to its rpm it'll it'll back off a little bit so you know this is 2800 rpms the cable pulled all the way up and then you let it relax and go the other way as soon as it runs the governor goes back down and the throttle goes back to its its idle post when it revs up it just pushes that lever right down and then go back to idle get that flywheel on there what else anything else any gas tank but i think we're good as far as trying to run off the carb yes get that flywheel on there i got the flywheel on the fan trout everything buttoned back up let's give her with rope start first you can get it you shut the dial on that card too so who knows [Applause] maybe take a little bit of prime itself [Music] too all right give me a call i got the choke on and i do see gas dripping out of it that's not a good sign make the float stuck we got a gravity feed tank right over there feeding it let me uh give her a couple of taps on the bowl see if we can get it to settle down there you go [Music] [Music] good old bumper that's where you want to be dialed in nice just cuts right along hopefully that boat will seal itself if not you gotta go back in driver up [Music] [Music] stay going sometimes a little bit more in the rich side kind of helps that's a thumper though huh get a little bit more sometimes you take a second push it on idle for it to respond so you gotta turn it and kind of see what it does the air cleaner's not on it too that's going to make a difference but for now let's see if i'll take a rev let's get a little bit more and shut it off here we go and we'll go give it a second see if that carb does see if it keeps leaking we know that gas gets on crap on top we had a couple of cracks in it but the fuel level should only be about this high it shouldn't be up above that should be down right about right about there so it shouldn't be overflowing just sitting still see what happens that's about 10 minutes later run the fans get the smoke to clear out of here yeah she's a tad smokey that's all right i don't seem to be licking any more gas anymore that's good fuel still hooked up to it just needed a couple love taps on that float that the needle seat to seat a little better that's where i was cleaning up the q-tip to try to help that but apparently it's a need a little bit of love let's keep an eye on it worst case we'll grab a carb kit for that probably should get one for the you know the broken gasket anyway all right so i think this one we're pretty much going to go sign off for now i think we'll pick up from here we'll get into the brakes the mass cylinder stuck see how the transmission is drain all the fluids out of it i think we get that stuff done we will be an operating tractor i'm happy for that get her hood back on her putter around see how she does see how she pulls but that'll be for another day not today with that guys i'm gonna sign off yeah for hanging out with me wrenching and making smoke and fire and flame and all that kind of happy stuff and hopefully we'll do it again on the next one all right guys so then i'll see you bye all right one more time see how she does choke off so you should just go right over keep going [Laughter] gotta give her a little bit of throttle [Music] [Music] so seemed a little undecided there for a second yeah i think he's taking great shoes with it you can get it you see the rust falling out of it i wonder why i wouldn't turn [Music] [Applause] you

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Published: Sun Apr 18 2021