Hobo,NC
Well-known Member
- Location
- Sanford, NC
I brought this 2N early spring I paid to much for it at the time but got some good equipment with it... I have been kicking myself I don't need the equipment and for sure a junk 2N... It was a hard starter low compression ended up being it had set so long a couple exhaust valve seats had enoufh rust on them it killed two cylinders so it made for a hard starter.
I jumped right on it pulled the valves out BTW the hardest valves I have ever had to deal with to get out, the exhaust were free rotating style to compound maters... None of my tricks worked so it was time for a new trick
... I would run the lifter up with the cam then heat the valve spring with a propane torch while lifting up on the valve. It surprised me using a propane torch how fast the spring would collapse once collapsed it stayed that way giving me room to get the keepers, retainers and the spring out... The fight was still on I liked to never beat the guilds out...
I got busy and never got back to it tell ya the truth I was hopping someone would come along needing a good set of tires so I could part the rest out...
Normally around this time of year I get slow so pulled it into the shop and completed the valve job... It had good Oil pressure before I took it apart I wanted to make sure it still did before I fired it up after the valve job... I made several attempts thur the oil pressure relief valve hole it was a no go... I think it was Ken, TX that posted to prime it on the line where the oil pressure enters the T block on back of the engine I already had it off.... I hooked up a pressure tank and fed it close to a qt of oil at about 30 PSI... I took the primer off hooked the oil gauge back up hit the starter and BAM I had 20 PSI on the gauge with the starter alone
I Turned the switch on it fired right up no smoke good oil pressure even good OP HOT at idle...
My ambition was just to see the engine run again either it would be a parts engine/tractor are if I was lucky a good runner well I hit the lottery its a strong engine no smoke, noise, leaks good OP... Other than the brakes its as good a 2N as I have ever worked on the steering is solid/tight hydraulics work just nuttin worn out... The hood is a beater hood its had a RUFF life..
So What am I gonna do with it around here its worth more dead than alive...
The dead part does involve more work than I want to do and at this time I don't have room for more tractor parts...
I am thinking shoot for $1500 as is...
Part out $1000 for a complete engine bell housing forward including the radiator and starter...
Tires should fetch at least $700.
Steering gear sectors a matched set in great condition a minimum $300.
The other little dodads that are getting hard to find like the wiring tube on top of the engine that I did not put back on, the starter safety linkage and the air cleaner they are get'N extremely hard to find...
I jumped right on it pulled the valves out BTW the hardest valves I have ever had to deal with to get out, the exhaust were free rotating style to compound maters... None of my tricks worked so it was time for a new trick
... I would run the lifter up with the cam then heat the valve spring with a propane torch while lifting up on the valve. It surprised me using a propane torch how fast the spring would collapse once collapsed it stayed that way giving me room to get the keepers, retainers and the spring out... The fight was still on I liked to never beat the guilds out...I got busy and never got back to it tell ya the truth I was hopping someone would come along needing a good set of tires so I could part the rest out...
Normally around this time of year I get slow so pulled it into the shop and completed the valve job... It had good Oil pressure before I took it apart I wanted to make sure it still did before I fired it up after the valve job... I made several attempts thur the oil pressure relief valve hole it was a no go... I think it was Ken, TX that posted to prime it on the line where the oil pressure enters the T block on back of the engine I already had it off.... I hooked up a pressure tank and fed it close to a qt of oil at about 30 PSI... I took the primer off hooked the oil gauge back up hit the starter and BAM I had 20 PSI on the gauge with the starter alone
I Turned the switch on it fired right up no smoke good oil pressure even good OP HOT
at idle...My ambition was just to see the engine run again either it would be a parts engine/tractor are if I was lucky a good runner well I hit the lottery its a strong engine no smoke, noise, leaks good OP... Other than the brakes its as good a 2N as I have ever worked on the steering is solid/tight hydraulics work just nuttin worn out... The hood is a beater hood its had a RUFF life..
So What am I gonna do with it around here its worth more dead than alive...
The dead part does involve more work than I want to do and at this time I don't have room for more tractor parts...
I am thinking shoot for $1500 as is...
Part out $1000 for a complete engine bell housing forward including the radiator and starter...
Tires should fetch at least $700.
Steering gear sectors a matched set in great condition a minimum $300.
The other little dodads that are getting hard to find like the wiring tube on top of the engine that I did not put back on, the starter safety linkage and the air cleaner they are get'N extremely hard to find...
