Saving A Ford 3910

[shovelmike]

Thank you, I am new here too, and having a good time reading over all the forums. I am from North Carolina, I was in Missouri a few years back, great state.

I have family in Columbia SC, sister, brother, niece, nephew, and all their children. My little sister here in Missouri and her family fly when they go over there....I always tell them it's a shame to fly over the smokies when you can drive through them...yours is beautiful country too!

 

[RickB]

Thank you, I am new here too, and having a good time reading over all the forums. I am from North Carolina, I was in Missouri a few years back, great state.

We are probably fairly close to each other.

 

[PM Wells]

We are probably within 75 miles of each other, I am in Wilkes County nc.

 

[RickB]

Nice area.

 

[PM Wells]

I am in the north central part of the county, not far from Stone Mountain park and the Elkin area. The mountains of Allegheny and Ashe Counties can be seen to the northwest, and the Brushy Mountains to the south.

 

[Happy Gilmore]

PM Wells, the 3910 is a nice lil tractor! Keep the progress updates coming and post some pics.

 

[PM Wells]

UPS dropped off my rebuilt injection pump along with three rebuilt injectors this morning. I had cleaned up the area behind the pump and the new starter and painted it with some blue paint that I thought was pretty close to the Ford Blue. I started installing the pump about noon today taking my time to make sure everything lined back up on the timing marks, I also had an extra mark that I put on just in case. I then installed the new injectors with new washers and seals that Dudley Carr with D&C Diesel had sent with them, he also sent a gasket for the timing gear cover. It is almost ready to try to bleed the lines and see if it is going to run. Oh btw, I had some onlookers watching as I worked, I think they wanted a treat.

 

[RickB]

Did you decide against a compression test?

 

[PM Wells]

Yes, Mr Carr sent me everything I needed to do the compression test, as I went along I thought, I will have to have everything installed except the injectors, then if the compression is low there is nothing I can do about it except to rebuild the engine. So I decided to go ahead with everything and see what happens. Hopefully it will run and if not I will have to go from there. I kept thinking the man I got it from said he was using when it stopped, so maybe it will run. I did blow out the injector lines, one was partially blocked.

 

[PM Wells]

One thing I noticed with the rebuilt pump is that the lever that the stop cable attaches to actually felt like it was connected to something inside the pump. Before it was loose and didn't seem to do anything. I used carb cleaner to flush out the injector lines and the return lines. I started on the return lines inside the neck of the fuel tank, and worked my way through each section of the lines, there was some really dark old fuel that flushed out. If this tractor did run, it could not have run too good. I did drain and flush the fuel tank earlier, then poured in about five gallons of fresh fuel, I was told to fill the tank almost full before I started to bleed the system. I plan to do that today and see if it will run. I painted the injection pump with one coat that was not quite dry when was installing it so the paint was a little tacky.