The wagon pull was fantastic. And, a very handy yellow machine you have there too. I liked the crowbar pile driving to correct the wagon steering. All in all a good start. I have an engine lift video coming soon that I filmed today. I found a 4-cylinder diesel engine on a pallet for free on the roadside. Well, ...I knew I wanted it but HOW to get it home. I finally went and got my engine crane and took it apart, loaded it on my truck and went back...and the engine was still there with only a few crows circling, with one guy who took the alternator. But I got it lifted and it is sittting in the back of the truck tonight. It has some issues that are obvious (broken thermostat housing, missing exhaust manifold, bent lines) but still a 4-cylinder Perkins diesel for free. Worst case scenario, I sell it for scrap or parts. At best, I have a new lawn ornament to admire and to make the neighbors jealous!😂
The tractor itself is a game changer just for pulling something heavy. With the loader and the backhoe it makes life so much easier. I don't have a lot of people that I would rely on so it's tough for me to round up muscle doing these jobs. Honestly it's a ton easier with the tractor and my Wife guiding me instead of trying to coordinate 4 guys and everyone has their own ideas on how it's going to happen and then it turns from a one hour job into a 6 hour bullshit session.
@@heliarche I agree. I'm usually a one-man-show and sometimes (most times) when you ask for "help' you often get a tug of war of opinions. Yesterday, when I was setting up my shop crane to lift that engine there were several suggestions none of which I knew would work, so I just waved them off and got it done. One guy said "the engine doesn't need to be moved out from that big rock because you can for sure back your truck in there (it wouldn't)...so there are a lot of helpers sometimes that make it into a babysitting exercise. I'm the kind of guy that will go ahead and get a job done much faster alone. One time I was trying to remove frames from windows I needed for my house and the two "helpers" broke all three windows by pulling this way and that....I removed several more frames myself without so much as a crack. You and your wife seem like a good team. Same here---I called home when I came across the engine and she said, "what have you found now?", then drove out to bring me my camera and some chain. Gotta love her.🤣
@@heliarche It is a Perkins 4-236. The injection pump, starter and fuel filter housing, all manifolds and injection lines intact (with some of the return fuel lines bent from the rough handling when it was discarded. It appears to be complete and the injection pump looks newer. The governor is inside the top of the injection pump (just like the pump on the Case tractor, but a different pump). I've got it home and sitting upright on a pallet and covered with a tarp until I can get to it. I'll clean the outside and bar it over and see it it's free to turn. Then I may hook up a battery and see how it spins. After that I'll have to do some small repairs on those bent lines, and install new oil and fuel filters (they are bent and dented too) then try to fire it up. Not sure what I'll do with it yet but I couldn't pass it up.
@@heliarche It has the governor under the top cover of the injection pump, just like the one on Case 580ck. The engine is a Perkins 4.236 (4-cylinder, 236 cubic inch). The starter, injection pump, injectors and lines are all there as well as all cover and manifolds. I'll be cleaning it up and rolling it over by hand to see if it is free, then I will try to see if it'll tun on the starter. At some point, I'll change the dented filters and see if it'll fire up.
I think you could do it with a forklift. There was no good way to do it with what I had on hand so we went from the top. I'm lucky I have any hair left after building this engine. The engine itself is dead simple but it's weird, horribly expensive, and the guy I hired to do the magnafluxing missed a huge crack in one of the water galleys. The second machinist caught it, $1800 later, and ***hopefully the repair will hold but he said I'd better never overheat it.
The wagon pull was fantastic. And, a very handy yellow machine you have there too. I liked the crowbar pile driving to correct the wagon steering. All in all a good start. I have an engine lift video coming soon that I filmed today. I found a 4-cylinder diesel engine on a pallet for free on the roadside. Well, ...I knew I wanted it but HOW to get it home. I finally went and got my engine crane and took it apart, loaded it on my truck and went back...and the engine was still there with only a few crows circling, with one guy who took the alternator. But I got it lifted and it is sittting in the back of the truck tonight. It has some issues that are obvious (broken thermostat housing, missing exhaust manifold, bent lines) but still a 4-cylinder Perkins diesel for free. Worst case scenario, I sell it for scrap or parts. At best, I have a new lawn ornament to admire and to make the neighbors jealous!😂
Free Perkins? Heck yea! Does it happen to be governed like a stationary engine?
The tractor itself is a game changer just for pulling something heavy. With the loader and the backhoe it makes life so much easier. I don't have a lot of people that I would rely on so it's tough for me to round up muscle doing these jobs. Honestly it's a ton easier with the tractor and my Wife guiding me instead of trying to coordinate 4 guys and everyone has their own ideas on how it's going to happen and then it turns from a one hour job into a 6 hour bullshit session.
@@heliarche I agree. I'm usually a one-man-show and sometimes (most times) when you ask for "help' you often get a tug of war of opinions. Yesterday, when I was setting up my shop crane to lift that engine there were several suggestions none of which I knew would work, so I just waved them off and got it done. One guy said "the engine doesn't need to be moved out from that big rock because you can for sure back your truck in there (it wouldn't)...so there are a lot of helpers sometimes that make it into a babysitting exercise. I'm the kind of guy that will go ahead and get a job done much faster alone. One time I was trying to remove frames from windows I needed for my house and the two "helpers" broke all three windows by pulling this way and that....I removed several more frames myself without so much as a crack. You and your wife seem like a good team. Same here---I called home when I came across the engine and she said, "what have you found now?", then drove out to bring me my camera and some chain. Gotta love her.🤣
@@heliarche It is a Perkins 4-236. The injection pump, starter and fuel filter housing, all manifolds and injection lines intact (with some of the return fuel lines bent from the rough handling when it was discarded. It appears to be complete and the injection pump looks newer. The governor is inside the top of the injection pump (just like the pump on the Case tractor, but a different pump). I've got it home and sitting upright on a pallet and covered with a tarp until I can get to it. I'll clean the outside and bar it over and see it it's free to turn. Then I may hook up a battery and see how it spins. After that I'll have to do some small repairs on those bent lines, and install new oil and fuel filters (they are bent and dented too) then try to fire it up. Not sure what I'll do with it yet but I couldn't pass it up.
@@heliarche It has the governor under the top cover of the injection pump, just like the one on Case 580ck. The engine is a Perkins 4.236 (4-cylinder, 236 cubic inch). The starter, injection pump, injectors and lines are all there as well as all cover and manifolds. I'll be cleaning it up and rolling it over by hand to see if it is free, then I will try to see if it'll tun on the starter. At some point, I'll change the dented filters and see if it'll fire up.
Who's the dude with the gray hair?? Glad you decided to not lift it from the bottom. They don't like that...
I think you could do it with a forklift. There was no good way to do it with what I had on hand so we went from the top. I'm lucky I have any hair left after building this engine. The engine itself is dead simple but it's weird, horribly expensive, and the guy I hired to do the magnafluxing missed a huge crack in one of the water galleys. The second machinist caught it, $1800 later, and ***hopefully the repair will hold but he said I'd better never overheat it.