J.B. Welded My Cracked Engine Block.
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2022
- This machine came to me with issues. Some small, some well… oily. All of them repairable, but with parts availability & budgets tight I thought I’d do what most anyone else would do. Try repairing a cracked engine block before having to replace said block. Nothing to lose right?
Today’s patient is a John Deere LX176 with a Kawasaki 14hp air cooled, aluminum block engine. The crack in the upper crankcase is probably due to the lower crankcase bolts being loose. They’ve been lock-tite slobbered & torqued.
In this video I’ll show you how I drilled the end of the crack to prevent it from spreading & then chamfered a groove along the crack to provide good adhesion for the J. B. Weld Kwik-Set epoxy. I’ll cover the tools used in the project & step-by-step what I did (and why) to fix the crack in the block.
The two-part epoxy bond was left overnight to cure & then we test for leaks. Fixed!! Is this engine in rough shape? Yes. Will it be replaced? Probably. But this repair bought me some valuable time to acquire a plan & parts. So we’re back to mowing & its mission accomplished.
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Filmed & edited by Philip West @FlannelPhilip
Music used with permission by Epidemic Sound
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We had a Detroit Series 60 that broke an ear off of the rear engine cover for a bellhousing bolt. BIG money and time to replace. We put the ear back on with JB, and lasted the life of the truck!! Great stuff!!!
Great fix to save an engine. Most people today would just trash it.
I used that trick to fix cracks in a V8 engine block in my pickup. It worked great!
Used JB weld on a series 60 Detroit block and an N14 Cummins front cover and it did the job.
Well done
Sounds like a great fix!
You may not need a new engine.
Hey. . . .that dont look like no Kenworth, lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣! John Deere is my favorite tractors 🚜 🥰🥰🥰👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I found a couple cracks in my John Deer D130 block today. All my oil leaked out. Do you recommend the jb weld?
Great work, it just needs some pinstripes.
Good seal on splash oil...JB will fail under stress.
Cheap and easy!
I put the wrong harmonic balancer on my car’s engine and it warped the halfmoon key off and bore a hole into the crankshaft nose. I wonder if I can use JB to put a new key in and fill that hole.
Sooooo will that work on an isx? Asking for a friend of course