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Well not exactly. I ran it for a short while and inspected the side and I did see one or two little bubbles so I should have taken your advice and put the copper gasket on top of the head gasket to seal it up a little bit. I’m guessing that even though I measured it for thickness discrepancies that maybe the head is a little bit warped. The blow by problem is definitely fixed though. No more oil shooting out of the dipstick. Not 100% successful but still moving in the right direction. When I get a chance to take everything off again I am just going to try and put some sort of thicker flexible gasket on top of the head gasket or some sort of option there to make it more sealed. Either that or I will just buy a new head and have an engine guy resurface the block. Or I will just take it to the auction!!!!
Yes I did finally get it all back together! I have a YouTube video I’m going to edit and upload that shows the whole process of replacing the head gasket. That may be informative someday for someone else. I’ve had to put the rest of the projects on the back burner. Have to go back to work to pay for all this nonsense!
Good thought. I did check it and it was straight with a straight edge to 0.002 inch with feeler gauge. I wanted to have it checked out at the engine shop but they were running weeks behind. I’m ordering the helicoil kit today. Will be working on the tractor again on Monday.
Once again thank you for the information. I had no idea but then as I got to looking at it I came to the conclusion that you just educated me on. Thank you.
I did take out all of my glow plugs and they looked good. I left them out and cranked it for a while and a lot of fuel shot out of the glow plug slots. I’m thinking that it was flooded. haha.
I continued to crank it until less smoke and fuel came out. I put the glow plugs back in and reconnected the fuel lines. gave two small puffs of starter fluid through the air intake and ignition. I was so excited. I was able to pull it out of the garage and start the cleanup process. Made a few laps around the pasture and put it in park and popped the hood to see if I noticed anything weird. Sure enough I saw some leakage at the same spot on the head gasket as before! I then turned everything off and re-torqued everything. I had previously torqued everything up. Everything was torqued to 100 pounds. The number one bolt in the torquing sequence however would not torque but slipped. Oh crap! I slowly backEd out that head bolt praying it wasnt broken but thankfully it was not. I cleaned the bolt and attempted to retighten it but I could only get it to about 25 pounds and then it would begin to spin. Crap! Stripped threads. Looks like I will be having to do a re-threading of this bolt hole. Makes me wonder if this was part of the problem all along… Obviously in addition to the busted pistons. On a good note though. While it was running there was no oil shooting out of the dipstick!
Wow. Once again thanks for bailing me out. I will definitely give all of that a try. That totally makes sense. Seems silly that I don’t even know where the glow plugs are but I rebuilt an engine ( well kind of rebuilt it). 😂
The picture was rotated when I posted it. Basically where my fingers are is 6 o’clock position. The oil pressure sensor is coming off of the engine block area and what appears to be a glow plug is facing to the back of the tractor?? On my other Chinese tractor the glow plug is right beside the engine block water drain stopcock
Does this look strange to anyone? Looking at this a little further and I’m wondering if whoever owned this tractor before me put the fuel pressure sensor in the glow plug spot? This just doesn’t look right to me? Seems to me that the glow plug should be on the engine block not on the fly wheel area or whatever that thing is called to the right?
So I did not mess with the fuel pump. If that is what you mean by pump timing? In order to remove the pistons from below by removing the drain pan/oil pan I had to turn the engine over quite a bit by pulling the main belt to access the bolts to the Connecting rods. Did not know if I could have potentially changed up the whole compression sequence By doing that. Maybe fuel is getting in at the wrong time? If that is the case I wonder how I could solve the problem? How does one know if you are at the right spot/time interval in a diesel engine. I just assumed that it didn’t matter. As far as the glow plugs go I think that they are working but I don’t know? I am not even sure where the glow plug is.
OK I need help! I got the pistons replaced with new rings. Got everything put back in. Filled up with oil. New coolant. Torqued down the new head with a new head gasket and new bolts with a torque at 100 for each bolt. Followed the torque sequence as recommended. Would not start. Getting lots of smoke coming out of the exhaust but not firing up. Then started noticing a lot of oil or fuel coming out of the exhaust ports so I removed the muffler. Large amount of diesel coming out of the exhaust ports. I did pump it up quite a bit To get all of the air out of the line so wondering if I could have potentially flooded the engine? Is it possible that I put the head back on at the wrong sequence? I did take a picture of the positions of the pistons prior to removing them and it looked to me like I had them positioned in the same positions for which I removed them. Don’t know if that matters or not or if that makes sense? Ugg! One more day off on this vacation and I feel like I have nothing to show for except for gaining a lot of knowledge. Frustrated. Anyway I guess I will sleep on it tonight. Maybe let everything settle and hit it again in the morning.
I have looked at several YouTube videos on it. Some of the videos make it look highly technical while others so just space them out as they are going to change anyway. I was hoping to get the engine put back together yesterday but the parts didn’t arrive. Decided to go ahead and put the Agracat back together while I am waiting on the Farmpro parts.
I had to put a new ignition switch in it. Also the power steering has not been working and it did not have a thermostat so I was waiting on a new thermostat housing and thermostat to come. Anyway still can’t get the power steering to work. I swapped out the power steering piston from the farm pro to the “AgraCrap”. That did not fix the problem. I am guessing that it is the control valve as I am getting hydraulics to the front loader and everything else.
I also had to remove the fuel tank and put a new fuel cup on it. Prior to that I did fill the tank up with bolts and chains and assorted metal pieces and strapped it to the Branson tractor and mowed for two hours. That really did a nice job of cleaning out all of the debris and rust. Once I got everything back on and filled up with gas of course there was a leak! Such a pain in the rear to get everything back off but I guess that’s another project for another day. I tried to tighten everything up in place but that did not work!.
Also, I’m still having the overheating problem. So frustrating. . On a positive note I did get the dash display working. Changed out several lightbulbs and found the wiring problem. I take two steps forward and one step back on this tractor as well as the other one. I see why people buy new things! My wife keeps reminding me of all the positive things. It has been a great project to work on during the quarantine time. I have spent lots of good quality time with my boys in the garage together.
