1941 BN
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:50 am
I purchased at auction a McCormick #30 sheller in decent shape to add to our corn processing demonstrations at the farm. one of the other guys decided to plant some cow corn of some sort so we got an old Case two row planter functional for that purpose. next problem....cultivating....
we had a BN with a full set of cultivators that had been moved from the field to under cover in the shed with a stuck motor. been sitting years outside, sorta covered... well you get the picture. it had been towed, MMO in the cylinders, nothing.
My son Dave tore it down in the yard. found #3 rusted up, but the head had been recently done over, from the looks of it.
Rain in new england over the weekend prohibited working outside on an engine, so i moved it up to my shop to continue (mostly because i needed a rusty iron / grease weekend !) 1 set of rings, hone the cylinder, grind the valves in #3, gaskets, a peek in the carb, a fresh mag (sure is nice having Mark's Magneto's owner as our president), a couple gallons of gas and ......
it fired right up !!
it just doesn't get any better than that
we had a BN with a full set of cultivators that had been moved from the field to under cover in the shed with a stuck motor. been sitting years outside, sorta covered... well you get the picture. it had been towed, MMO in the cylinders, nothing.
My son Dave tore it down in the yard. found #3 rusted up, but the head had been recently done over, from the looks of it.
Rain in new england over the weekend prohibited working outside on an engine, so i moved it up to my shop to continue (mostly because i needed a rusty iron / grease weekend !) 1 set of rings, hone the cylinder, grind the valves in #3, gaskets, a peek in the carb, a fresh mag (sure is nice having Mark's Magneto's owner as our president), a couple gallons of gas and ......
it fired right up !!
it just doesn't get any better than that