John Deere 60 repair

[cjet69]

After receiving my order of stones for the valve seat grinder, I found the thread insert isn't long enough to turn the stones around on the mandrel. Normally I would turn the stones and cut a different angle on the other side of the stone for a top or bottom cut of a 3-angle valve grind. I ordered 2 more stones so I should be good to go now. My cousin dropped off a gasket kit and I still need to do a final cleanup and measure to see if we need just a valve or a guide also.

[cjet69]

We got our chamfering attachment for the valve grinder which is one of the first steps you need to perform before grinding the valve face. Still waiting for a new exhaust valve to arrive but got started on the others. My brother came over last weekend and wanted to try out "the new to us" valve grinding machine. He faced and chamfered the stems and then chucked them up for the grind. The machine works well and with great results. We then moved on to refacing the rockers. The rockers look like they had been ground before and the face wasn't square. We were able to get them cleaned up good enough to work correctly.

[cjet69]

And a few more.

[cjet69]

My cousin dropped off a new exhaust valve and a carb kit. Its been really cold in the shop (38°F) with our recent weather so I haven't been doing much on this project. The temp will still be cool overnight but in the mid 40's during the day so I should be able to warm the shop up enough to get some work done this weekend. Today I need to cut some wood (dead dry Cedar) for shop heat and tomorrow will be cleaning the cattle feedlot.

[ricky racer]

My cousin dropped off a new exhaust valve and a carb kit. Its been really cold in the shop (38°F) with our recent weather so I haven't been doing much on this project. The temp will still be cool overnight but in the mid 40's during the day so I should be able to warm the shop up enough to get some work done this weekend. Today I need to cut some wood (dead dry Cedar) for shop heat and tomorrow will be cleaning the cattle feedlot.

[cjet69]

Finished sandblasting the head yesterday and just sprayed some epoxy primer on the head and governor housing.

[ricky racer]

Wow! Looking good!!

[cjet69]

Wire wheeled the fan shaft and treated it with Ospho. I'll get it primed tomorrow. When the primer is cured I'll do a final cleaning on the governor and fan shaft and then its ready to assemble.

[cjet69]

Primed the fan shaft and applied some more Ospho to the radiator parts. I think I have the rust killed this time.

[cjet69]

It was another fairly nice day with 54°F temps so I set up outside and primed the radiator parts.

[cjet69]

Decided to clean the outside of the carburetor today. It had 3 layers of paint and primer and a layer of rust underneath all of it. I was able to scrape some of it first, then into the sandblast cabinet, and finished in the bead blast cabinet. I found one of the idle needles was stuck, but with some penetrant I got it loosened up. Also cleaned the lower intake and lower water inlet. I ran out of epoxy primer, so I ordered up some more.

[cjet69]

Just more parts cleaning today.

[cjet69]

Another day of cleaning parts. Only a few more things to clean up now. I'm also going to pull the front frame off so I can clean the block and paint the whole engine while its torn down this far. My brother stopped by and touched up the new exhaust valve so it's ready to go when I get back to the cylinder head.

[ricky racer]

[Gary Dotson]

Nice work, too bad you have to paint it green!