Ford 1210 tear down and repair

[Asymair95]

I've decided I will hold off on replacing this tire till time permits. I need this tractor for hauling firewood, and the season is fast approaching.

Found a nice surprise hiding in the bell housing up around the flywheel/clutch area. Little devils were busy!



My next thought was how the heck am I going to get back up in there to remove this stuff without splitting the tractor? The mechanical fingers worked pretty good, but there was still some stuff up higher in the cavity I couldn't reach. The starter was the only access I could think of.



It gave me a nice big hole to get my mechanical fingers down in as well as some compressed air. After break I will fire up the leaf blower and really get some cfm's in there to blow the last of the junk out.



More later.

 

[Asymair95]

The leaf blower really did the job, got lots more stuff out. I'm hoping I'm good now.

On to the next project...Valve adjustment.

Cover removed. Had lots of soot and oil in the side chamber. Not really sure what it does, maybe some kind of warming area?



In this shot you can really see all the gunk in there.



Getting the valves set to .008"
Some of the valves were really far out, glad I checked them. The exhaust valve on the #1 cylinder was around .003", but I think that was the worst one.



One more shot of the goo in there. It was kind of hairy, or had the appearance of having lint in it.

 

[Asymair95]

The valve cover all cleaned up and new sales going in.



The head all cleaned up. Had to clean out the ports in there too. It's a weird design, it's a split port for the exhaust with half the exhaust going into the valve cover and half going out the exhaust manifold.



The exhaust manifold removed for painting.



There was a little dab of sealant here from the factory, so I put a dab there too.



New sealing washers for the mounting nuts.



All done!

 

[Asymair95]

Got a few more things done tonight after the kids were asleep.

Put some muffler patch on the hole in the muffler. Looks and feels like JB weld.



Replaced one of the radiator mounts as the old one was broke.





Tomorrow I hope to get some painting done and change the steering box fluid.

 

[sld]

How did you adjust the valves? Piston at TDC? Or while it was running?

That is a 600 hour maintenance item but mine only has 470 hours.

 

[Asymair95]

I did it cold and not running. adjusted them several times. It seemed turning the motor over would change the clearance slightly.

Got the rims painted with some por15 today. Just did the inside where the rust was bad. It has a self leveling property to it and will promote a good bead seal when the tires go on.





The muffler and manifold painted with high temp paint.





Fuel tank and battery tray prettied up.



Drained and refilled the steering box. I sucked out what I could with a large syringe.

 

[Asymair95]

I refilled the steering box with the same fluid I will be using in the hydro.





After changing the fluid I adjusted the steering free play. Had to turn the cam in about one full turn to remove the slop.



I need a knob for my flasher switch, anyone have one for sale?

 

[Asymair95]

Lots of cleaning and painting today.





Used the hvlp gun and some rust oleum almond.

 

[mostly_gas]

Awesome work!!

 

[Asymair95]

Pulled the wire harness off. Need to go through it and clean all the rust off the connectors.