My Sleeves Don’t Fit! More Farmall MD Headaches

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1. 😠😠😠

2. Late to your party but wanted to say thank you for showing me, a six cylinder gas-start IH Diesel guy, the similarities of the fuel filter assemblies. Apples and oranges on the differences so some things are upside down.
   Much appreciated info!

3. THANK YOU

4. Please restore the 756 next

5. Love the vice grip to hold the filter housing in the vice! Why didn't I think of that?
   Enjoy your channel.
   I'm across the lake from you in Romulus.

6. Man years ago we done a Super MD. It has the deep dish groove. Dad tore it down. We both were on the road and in at different times. When the sleeves came in I chilled them and installed them , not knowing that they had a small ring around the top , and he had taken out a set of large ring liners. It ran for a while and started skipping. The cylinder had zero compression , like read completely zero. It didn't knock or do anything suspicious, the valves worked fine. We suspected the diesel valve had somehow messed up. Pulled the head , nothing there. Finally looked and realized the entire liner or sleeve was M.I.A. It was shattered like glass in the oil pan. Being it was a new parts person who sent us the parts Styner , Stiner (however it's spelled) sent us a complete new engine kit. It had already ruined the bearings with liner guts.

7. Pete, your amazing!!!. Aloha

8. Thank you for sharing.

9. Good video, I would have been afraid of the water bowl or the gas bowl. With my luck I would have dropped them.

10. 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🗽

11. Do you like doing that stuff

12. Instead of grinding/wire-brushing off the rust and dirt, do it with electrolysis instead. Much easier, cleaner and does a great job without destroying any of the good metal. Also you may wish to contact Rice Equipment for Farmall Parts.

13. I Just Love it ! I wish I could help you , Once I retire that's my plan to re build My Dad's Old 62' Chevy C-10 Long Bed ! Good job Pete ! Taking it apart piece by Piece and cleaning and painting it !! is the only way to go ! giving me so great Idea's ! Thanks

14. 15.47 Hi Pete, why didn't you just push the whole sleeve out?

15. Watch Wes Work pointed me to your channel. Very cool!

16. @1:36 I would drill out and increase the diameter of that hole by 50%

17. copper does work harden, so not a bad idea to anneal crush washers if you are going to use again, just heat up red hot and quench in water and they will come out dead soft.

18. I would bet that the reason that filter bolt has the center hole and vent is so you don't hydrolock it when you run it into a blind hole in the casting that is full of oil. (best case is you would not get it tight, worst case you would crack your casting.. The clean oil would just run down around the outside of the bolt, guessing it has clearance all the way around. I have seen the type of bolt you are talking about, my Honda motorcycle has one, but it has many holes, and the bolt it very thin and hollow the entire length.

19. Anyone know what needs to be done with a Farmall 656 Diesel that blows head gaskets out the side!
    second replacement last year was an extra thick gasket with new head bolts!
    IT Still blew out the side! not even used that much!

20. A suggestion. Why not machine the sleeve to fit the hole instead of maching the block to fit the sleeve.

21. Super sleeves will not fit. The parent bores are different on the Super. If you want to go bigger, you must get oversized sleeves and pistons for the regular MD.

22. On our 1206, CarQuest uses the same filter in the primary and secondary.
    CIH has the primary and secondary filters.
    Wix has the primary and secondary filters.

23. I was just thinking of all the money you are saving by doing the majority of the labor yourself. Great job.

24. have you ever done breaks on an older tractor ?

25. Squatch 253 ran into this this sleeve issue not fitting into the block. They fixed this by honing the block cylinder bores to allow the liners to fit into the block. This appears to be a problem with the newer jobber liners.

26. Very interesting! When I was a 6 year old, our MD was returned to the farm after an overhaul at the dealership and it dropped a piston as the delivery truck drove away. It was determined that they used the wrong head gasket. Fast forward 56 years and I now understand why!

27. I bet someone mentioned this below but on the fuel filters, coarse filter upstream of the fine. 2 of the same won't do you any good unless you can bypass the first into the second. Great stuff, keep going!

28. I run into problems like this all the time when working on old trucks and tractors. Just have to keep working and you always find a way to fix the issue.

29. I would not bore the block. I think it be risky. Just find some that fit and go with different head gasket etc.

30. I had a dead mouse in the water trap of a 504

31. That was really clever the way you used the vise-grips to hold the filter housing in the vice.

32. I also restore tractors. Get a gallon of POR Marine clean! It melts the toughest old goo off. Oh yea you have a grease spot on your face.🤣

33. I like your approach to thinking about things Pete, and the attitude and your determination are inspiring. Please film the machine shop work if they let you.

34. Just remachine the sleeves not a big job

35. Have you tried stenier tractor for parts

36. all inkow your just a farmer but you are allsow a good mechaneck

37. I’m sorry about the sleeves. I have a 1948 John Deere A. They made them so long and made so many updates that parts can sometimes be a nightmare. I love your channel.

38. Hopefully your friends at the Machine Shop fiqure it out for you. Seems like theres always something to set you back on a big project. 👍

39. i love this channel and cant wait to see the md running i am 13 and love old tractors and currently in the process of getting my great grandfather’s 1950 john deere b and are making good progress

40. Next video wear camo and really smear the grease on your face and you can be the tractor commando. I'm just messing with you. Anytime I work on something greasy it ends up on my face somehow.

41. This was very informative thank you. Once on Dad's 560 Farmall I had it on the blower wide open then oil bypass failed and the oil filter blew right off. Yup, within seconds it needed to be overhauled. It was this event that caused me not to use Fram filters for a long time.

42. y husband has been enjoying your videos concerning you rebuilding your tracker!

43. Hi Pete, here's a joke for you, old farmer visited his local dentist here in clare for his check up and asked how much would the implants cost, dentist said around two thousand euros, farmer replied l could get a good tractor for that, dentist replied I don't think it will fit in your mouth 👄.. 👄🚜. Liam kilkee clare ireland 🍀

44. How did you know I was going to ask how you keep all those parts organized?
    Kudos to you for rolling with the unexpected challenges!

45. Hey Pete your really starting to push the envelope! But that's still stationary.

46. what a shame about those sleeves! So frustrating.

47. Sorry to hear of the sleeve mishap, but Bates is a great company. I know they'll do everything they can to work with you. Hope you get it remedied soon so it can get sent off to the machine shop! Also – paint thinner is a VERY good degreaser. I soak parts in it quite often. Also helps remove old fuel varnish very easily.

48. Nothing better then a good bench wire brush for cleaning parts!

49. That thing looks like a bullet from super mario

50. I guess if you still reily wanted to have the same type sleeve you kood get the over size ones mashined, the only problem would be that it would be quite expensive, you know, the whole thing about sleeves being made of very hard metal.

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