it's Pete from cheap homesteading and tonight we're gonna finish the
disassembly on the engine on the Massey Ferguson 231 last night I always feel I
can get more done than that candidate so now we just got to take off the starter
take off the head lift the engine off and take the crank out of it that's all
I have to do tonight so let's go so I'm gonna plug any holes because I'm gonna
blow off the engine because I don't have a pressure washer so kind of have to do
with what I have and I want to just make sure I get all the loose stuff off so it
can't fall in the engine or anything like that so let's blow this off make
sure you wear your safety glasses
these starters are pain-in-the-butt they're easy to get these bullets out
but the last the back bolt is five eats but even with a shallow socket it barely
fits on so you kind of have to put quite a few extensions and put quite a bit of
force on it when you're about ready to
break it loose okay there we go it's bolt is out
these motors are gradle motors but I heard from an older mechanic that I work
with that when they were a massy dealer the nuts used to come off the connecting
rods on these tractors and they had update kits to fix the problem and then
it makes you wonder if this tractor was ever done and it held together all those
years I don't know but I'm gonna make sure I get the updated nuts and
everything for the connections for sure
there we go pull these up I was tapping on the face here
never hit this this is a cast pulley it will break easy
we're gonna take the front of the timing cover off so this aluminum front cover
you have to be careful you don't want to miss a bolt ah like one down there so if
it doesn't go look around four bolts tap gently don't just press because if you
force it you will break the friend cover gently work your way around the cover
till it comes off easy okay so we're gonna set this in a clean box
this is a boat as far as I can go until I get the head off it and that's what I
can pull the cam out and then I can finish removing the front cover for my
application it's way easier to remove the head all the extra weight and I'll
lift it off because it's sitting nicely here I don't have an engine stand to put
it on so I'll be hunched over trying to do the rest of it so and I have to
remove the head pull the push rod so I can pull the cam out so let's start
taking that off okay so when you pry you pry in a few places don't pry all at
once I have to bend the valve cover and the thing leaf wrap okay so now we're
going to remove the valve rocker arm assembly this whole piece I'm gonna
disconnect the Lube line first
you know what's truly amazing you can tell these tractors were assembled more
just by hand even this brass they put you'd never see that anymore but you can
tell someone actually braze that on now they're just factories and robots
really
okay so now you lift off this whole rocker assembly in a safe cleaning place
okay so all the head bolts are loosened I am only using this strap to lift the
head up okay so we're gonna lift up on it and if it doesn't come you Prai Prai
lift it up a bit cry don't just yank on it that's and
don't pry too much on the aluminum housings there we go
so now I want to remove the cam but to get the cam out you got to remove the
fuel pump and then the cam should just slide out gently you don't have to
actually take the timing cover off to get the crank out of it
but I want to make sure everything is good all to get if I'm this far I might
as well change the gaskets that are on the front and everything to make sure
that we don't have trouble down the road so you give it a wiggle no one more
there okay I'm gonna lift this off and you can leave the injection pump on it
you don't let them bolt okay so I got one more bolt here I believe and then
she should start coming loose I lift it up and down just a hair and then give it
a little bit of a wiggle
there we go the engine is free okay so now we're
gonna remove the pressure point don't let this drop on your toe so don't
take all the bolts so quit right away just a little bit make sure you leave it
right it in a little bit
everything I think is loose loose
and it's happier than anything
okay now we'll try to get this cover loose there we go she's breaking loose
of it everything okay seal assembly off okay so what I want to
do is make a temporary table lit of a pallet I'll put jack stands around it I
don't have an engine stand I want to build a ninja stand for one of these one
that's heavy enough to handle bigger diesel motors because realistically if I
put this on and put the head and everything on it I will destroy a just
normal cheap automotive engine stand so I'd like to make a heavy one but till
then I'm just gonna use what I got so I'll put it on a pallet and four stands
so now we're gonna remove the other two caps and we're gonna lay them all out
okay so now if you pull on it and wiggle this one will come out and you can see
that bearings not perfect by any means but it's not it's not bad so we're gonna
remove the snap ring that holds the idler gear on on the oil pump oh oh my
gracious there it is okay pull that off I'm gonna
remove these three bolts
I'm going to leave one kind of in so we can't fall on the ground just gonna give
it a light back there we go there's one we're going to set them in order as we
go
make sure the crank doesn't fall out when you take the last one out
now I've lift the grand count so each push rod end up getting a piece of hard
wood I have and you push it your push rod over the top if it's a little bit
too stiff for that you can tap it gently but that's why you use a wooden stick to
do it so won't damage anything and you don't push it right on the bearing if
you hope to use the bearings you remove them I'm not going SHhhh it really
doesn't matter so what you do is you just push each push rod and piston at
the top of the cylinder I did run into issue with the one that was it I had
trouble with cuz it bent the stud and I cut it enough just to get the whole
thing out I am probably going to replace this piston and connecting rod the other
ones I think are okay and the cylinders look good so I think we are rolling I
just got the end of the part I'm gonna make some lists of Parts I need
and we're gonna see which direction we want to go on this so you guys have a
good room