
Hoping For a Diesel Conversion Project
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Posted January 09, 2011 - 04:57 PM
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Posted January 09, 2011 - 04:59 PM
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Posted January 09, 2011 - 05:15 PM
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Posted January 09, 2011 - 07:21 PM
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Posted January 09, 2011 - 07:49 PM
The link did not work for me, maybe this will work?
Kubota Diesel :: MOV00227.mp4 video by olcowhand_in_ky - Photobucket
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Posted January 09, 2011 - 09:47 PM
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Posted January 09, 2011 - 10:48 PM
As I said earlier, he got around good at 90. He drove to dad's just last Thursday & visited most the afternoon.
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Posted January 09, 2011 - 10:58 PM

Glad you got it going, it sounds great. Makes me want to put one on the 1855.
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Posted January 09, 2011 - 11:05 PM
Are you sure you didnt pull a "George" on us? Ice in the engine is about like "he sold it to someone else".
Glad you got it going, it sounds great. Makes me want to put one on the 1855.
It's the honest truth! Seller stated the exhaust had always been covered, but after the heat gun on the block for around an hour, she finally melted out. When I fired her up, lots of water came out of the muffler. Odd being he always kept it covered huh! If I ever get this project done, I may look for a diesel for my 1855 w/FEL. Highly unlikely I'll find another deal like this one, with or without ice!
Just before the ice melted & engine turned free, I was minutes away from pulling the head off. Then I decided to put the heat gun back on the block. MAN, am I glad I didn't pull the head!
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Posted January 09, 2011 - 11:47 PM
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Posted January 09, 2011 - 11:55 PM
Seller stated the exhaust had always been covered, but after the heat gun on the block for around an hour, she finally melted out. When I fired her up, lots of water came out of the muffler. Odd being he always kept it covered huh!
My niece's husband runs demolition derby cars and beater trucks in local mud bogs and runs the pipes straight out the hood for convenience. He was using soup cans to cover the pipes, but they kept blowing off and letting water in. The solution was to switch to beer cans because they fit more tightly to the pipes and didn't blow off. It's possible the guy who sold you the engine did keep covering it every time his cover blew off, which isn't quite the same as keeping it covered.
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Posted January 10, 2011 - 09:16 AM
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Posted January 10, 2011 - 09:35 AM
Sorry to here about our uncle.
Glad you have that diesel purrrrrrrrrrrrring.
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Posted January 10, 2011 - 09:50 AM
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Posted January 10, 2011 - 09:55 AM
Glad you got it safely and that you have it running. Maybe you'll have it going next time I am down there.
I figure by summer I'll have the engine "roughed into" the chassis....maybe. All depends on getting my farming done, Dad's health, life in general. If you get to visit again, I sure hope it's drivable by then.