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I have had so much trouble getting 5/16″ spring washers. Most of the covers (sump, timing cover, valve cover) on the diesel engine use 5/16″ UNC threaded bolt for a 1/2″ across flats spanner or socket. I ran out of 5/16″ spring washers I decided to replace the washers as its hard to clean the old ones, I tried 3 places to get some replacements! They could all sell me M8 spring washers. I explained that if I had wanted M8 I would have asked for M8! I should have known really that B&D bolts my usual supplier of bolts was the place to go. when I asked Andrew said “did I want a light or heavy weight spring washer”. How refreshing.

M8 ID=8.55mm   5/16″ ID=8.05mm  that’s .5mm difference.

I’ve left the valve cover / oil filler and breather cover that goes on the side of the engine in the degreaser over Christmas it is another alloy part. It came out nice and shiney so I’ll be heating it up in the oven and giving it an etch primer later today.

lock washer sizes

 Next jobs starting tonight,

I want to attach the engine to the tractor so in order to do this… I need to.
Cleanout the inside and outside of the clutch housing.  Its full of oil from when the seal at the back of the engine split.
Replace the clutch thrust bearing.
Clean up the bolts and 1 stud that hold the engine to clutch housing.
Work out how I’m going to lift the engine and move it into the correct position/height.

Ferguson Tools
I’ve added a Ferguson Tools page below on the right. Information about the Britool tools originally available when the tractors where supplied new.

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Merry Christmas to you all,

I hope you have been good and santa has been good to you?
I’ve received  no tractor related presents’s for christmas. I take this as sort of a blessing as it means I am free to buy my own stuff. There isn’t much in the world of tractor items I do want (except a full lucas lighting kit).

I did see an advert on television tonight which made me chuckle.
http://www.tractorcollection.co.uk/

Collect tractors part 1

When you read the small print it will cost you about £8 a magazine every fortnight and they don’t say how many are in the collection.
Still it would only be the first one I was interested in and it’s £1.99, I might get it to see how good the model is.

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I took Thursday and Friday off with the intension of spending 2 solid days in the garage working towards getting the tractor engine back onto the tractor and running by the end of the year. I’ve spent 3 days painting and decorating one of the rooms in the house! I managed a couple of hours in the garage on Sunday night.

I’ve got the timing cover fitted on the second attempt. The cable tie I was using on the first go got caught and I couldn’t pull it through the inspection cover. So I had to start again using string. The idea is to tie the chain tensioner sprocket in position with string. fit the cover then tighten the tensioner bolt then cut the string. Easy in theory, a little harder in practice. Well I finally got it. I don’t think any of the timing has been affected. It was an effort re inserting the new oil seal on the inside of the cover as well. Al in now.

Timing cover

Next move is to add the cover to the cam follower tops. Then i can think about getting the clutch housing cleaned up and try to join the two halves!

eBay
I sold a tractor part on eBay for 99p I don’t think I’m going to be a millionaire very soon.

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Just a Quick one tonight.

I’ve se the decompression gaps on the exhaust side of the rocker, 1,2 & 4 cylinders set to .030″ and 3 cylinder set to .045″. once set by turning the decompression shaft it really made a difference as o how easy it was to turn over the engine. They where all different gaps before I set them.

Timing cover has been stripped of all it’s paint and has been heated up in the oven then painted with etching primer along with the fuel filter top. I’m going to re fit the cover tomorrow as I am happy with the timing. I am also trying to get the chain tensioner set as it’s just a cable tie holding it in compression at the moment.

Timing Cover Before

Timing Cover After

Filter Top

Colin thanks for the info on the spanner I’ve added it to the spanner page.

Comments, You know you lot can add a comment to any of these posts? Just after each post there is a line that says comments. if you click on it you can enter a comment about the post. That way I and others can see what you’ve written. If it’s a great point it would be great to share it with all of us.  There are about 350 people looking at this site each day. no one have anything to add?

Pictures, You can also click on any of the picture to see them at a larger size.

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A great night in the garage.

The flywheel is on. Thanks Mark for the aligning tool it worked wonders. I added a new pilot bearing to the clutch before installing it. I have had to refit the old tab washers as I’ve had 2 other lost sent to me and they are wrong so I’ve made a not of the sizes they should be just in case. 

Flywheel in place

Correct Flywheel Tab Washer size

Clutch plates in place with the aid of Mark

Fitting the clutch moved the timing chain out on the front of the engine. I wanted to go over the settings from the manual again so it wasn’t to much hastle to reset everything.

Tractor Timing all setup

I’ve even made a Video of the engine turning over. It now turns much easier with the Flywheel in place.

Get a Video here of the engine turning by hand (23meg) .mov

Get a video here of the engine turning by hand (10meg) .m4v

Timing cover in the degreaser bath. It’s another aluminium part so I’ll take al the paint off the outside, heat it up and spray with Etch primer the same as I did for the sump. I want to get the cover on ASAP as I have a cable tie holding the chain tensioner in position.

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I know people search this site looking for plough information. 
So here is a gem of a link for you. I have Nev to thank for this. Nev from the FoFH forum. He came across a link to a site which has on it lots of ferguson manuals. It seems to be an American site as most of the manuals are from the ford ferguson days.

http://www.ntractorclub.com/forums/manuals

There is one manual about the servicing of a ferguson mouldboard plough. It is listed page by page. I’ve stitched the pages together and saved them as a PDF document. It makes Fascinating reading. lots of terminology, problem solving setup. 

I’ve never seen a Ferguson manual like this. does one exist?

Download Manual Here

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 I finally managed to get back into the garage. It’s been a week. The first think I did was the usual tidy up. I am a city boy so I don’t have a large barn but a small garage to keep my tractor in. You can see the lack of space. Still I’m happy I have a space out of the weather to work on the tractor.

My Garage

I’ve got what I think is the last delivery of parts I’ll need to get the tractor up and running. It includes Front axle pin and bearing, clutch pilot bearing, clutch thrust bearing and tab washers to hold the fly wheel on. I  got them from 

Geoff Mathews Engineering a local tractor parts supplier. They didn’t take to long to get and the price was reasonable.

Final Parts

I’ve had to clean up the clutch and fly wheel they where covered in oil. I’ve given them the usual bath in degreaser. I think the clutch assembly is new as it is carrying an MF part number.

Clutch in degreasing Bath

 I think the clutch plate has been recently added as there doesn’t look much wear on it. I’ve decided not to replace it. I think I can always replace it at a later date if need be.

Clutch plate pic 1

Clutch plate Pic 2

I’m still not sure about the timing still need to check it. I also need to do the decompression settings for cylinders 1,2 and 4.

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 Hi Tim,   the tractor and Jim arrived home safely   going Holmesfield and Ringinglow   then Nether Green.  very small picture  if i make it to large it will not email.

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I had this email from Gary about ferguson Implements and there manufacture. I added some information  but I wondered if anyone out there had anymore help for Gary? I also thought you might find it interesting and useful.

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Tonight I added The Rocker to the top of the engine.

Rocker Added (click to enlarge)

 With the rocker added I set the gap between the valve and tappet of 0.012″

I then moved to the timing chain on the front of the engine. Where are you ROY. I could really do with some support on this one.  I know this is one of the trickiest things to get right with the rebuild. 

First was to add the shims back behind the cog on the crank shaft.

Shims behind Cog

The shims are added to make sure the cog is in line with the other two.

Three Cogs in place

I then tried the chain. I’m not sure if the cam is in the right place. I will have to re check it after reading the manual again. (The manual isn’t that helpful. It flits around from page to page so much)

Chain & tensioner in place

Here you see the chain tensioner in position.

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