it's Pete from cheap homesteading and I'm in the garage tonight and we're
gonna do a little more work on the Massey Ferguson 231 the engine needs to
come out because I have to change the crank so the front has to come off the
tin work drain the fuel remove the fuel tank so we better get at it
so let's go we're gonna start by taking off the hood we're gonna have to remove
the whole front axle assembly off the front of the engine hopefully I can
wheel this inside without too much difficulty
you can actually tell that someone's head is apart because it's probably
tough to get this back over the pipe and there's a bend and hood to me that's the
only way that that could Bend like that so you take the rad cap off and you take
the fuel cap off well fish that up
oh the hoods off
we'll throw the caps back up dirt
so the next thing we're gonna do is turn off the tap going to the fuel we are
gonna disconnect it and start draining the fuel tank so I'm gonna remove it off
the pump and I'm gonna put it right into a clean pail okay
that's coming up very slowly tonight it's finally cooling down it's been so
hot it really hasn't been very nice to work in the garage so thank goodness
it's starting to get a little bit on a cooling trend I'm pretty happy with that
so make sure make sure you mark where your lines go even if you think you're
gonna know which way they go because you will probably get a we're gonna remove
all these little shields just so I don't bend them when I pull the front axle
away
by the way this is a 8 mil socket I don't know if these are actually 8 mil
but it fits nice
she get into the engine slowly okay now we're gonna green the cool on this side
of the rad there's a tap and it will spray absolutely everywhere because it's
not pointing down
okay let that dream okay so basically we're going to disconnect everything so
we can pull the front off the tractor so I got a disconnect the air intake hose
that comes from your air filter the last bolts that go to the front of the block
any lines that come down and go forward which is it there isn't very much
actually it's mainly this the top red hose and my steering links have to be
removed and this thing that's going to come apart
there we go the intake closed wiring these old
attractors are actually a lot easier to split than the newer ones the newer ones
have so much wiring and so much hoses and piping and they try to clamp they
try to cram so much in a small space that it's just a nightmare but these
things were from an era that the still made them so you could actually fix them
which is really really nice okay so now you're gonna have to disconnect your tie
rods break your tie rod end nuts loose
oh my gracious right to the end okay you get your safety glasses on and then you
hit right here how to go to 90 degrees to it and what it is is this is tapered
so it kind of just gives it a juror and a pops it loose you might have have to
hit it a few times there you go
easy is that sometimes it could be difficult
that was wow that is an awful spot but a battery connection for short you can
barely get your ranch in there you can't barely reach it
there we go my gracious there we go look at that so now we're gonna unhook
the horn
and my headlight plug here
okay so look what I've done the oil pan had the mount for this side so there's
nothing holding it I still have to get this rad hose off and this rad hose will
pull off but everything else is disconnected
there is nothing connecting it except
this one bolt right there so I'm going to take this cover off for the
alternator and then remove that one and then we should be able to wheel this
thing apart
okay it actually seems pretty balanced I'm going to open the door get
everything ready and we'll try to wheel this thing out
there
that could have went a whole lot better I don't have a forklift so you end up
doing it basically all by hand so we're gonna throw some sawdust on the oil all
over the floor and cover up the front axle and they're out of that thing and
then we're going to start removing the engine so there you go so there you go I
got the front end off the tractor I'm going to start removing the fuel tank
now so basically you remove the bolts in the back and it is meant to slide back
and out but I think you have to take a little batch burps you know how to do so
I'm gonna unbolt it here
be careful with your tap on the far side that definitely fucked on something
because that is reka Dias little top I've ever seen in my life okay got the
fuel tank off there's a plug there I'm gonna start disconnecting anything
supporting so I'm gonna take the starter off alternator off fuel filter mines
whatever I have to do is I'm gonna start pulling the head off