stuck motor

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usmc

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asheboro nc
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ford 2000
1953 allis chalmers B set for several years , crankcase was full of clear water. i removed the plugs and valve cover, blew out the cylinders with air hose and soaked everything down with seafoam and marvel mystery oil. its been soaking for 4 days its still tight as a drum. any suggestions other than complete teardown ?
 
   / stuck motor #2  
Coca Cola in the cylinders. The acid in it will attack the rust.

Or try PB Blaster.

Option to, is to pull the head and see how bad it is... One trick is to soak it with Marvel Mystery Oil or PB Blaster. Then, every day, go in and place a wood block on top of the piston, and whack the piece of wood with a hammer. Do that every day, for each piston. Soak, bang with a hammer(using the block of wood to protect the piston); soak, bang with hammer, repeat till loose...

Pick up the books by Roger Welsch. "Love Sex and Tractors", "Everything I know about Women I Learned from my Tractor", "Busted Tractors and Rusted Knuckles" etc. He has lots of humor, but everything in those books revolves around rebuilding old AC tractors.

Amazon.com: Roger Welsch: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle
 
   / stuck motor #3  
If you mean to get it broke loose to run, not to dampen your spirit, doubt that will happen. Most I have torn down, you will find the cylinders pitted around the pistons. Rings more than likely stuck also. Doubt honing will get all of the pits out, so you are looking at some oil consumption.

Depends on if you're planning on it being a trailer queen, and just run enough to show, or using it. Honing the cylinders, and a soft set of rings, may possibly get you by. Sleeve & piston kits for the B's C's run around $300.00.

If the pan was pretty well full of water, you probably had it up on the crank and bearings, depending on where the engine stopped. Maybe even up into the seal journals, if it was plum full of water.

Sleeves may also be cracked. Was there anything in the radiator..?? A sure sign of cracked sleeves. I've also seen the blocks cracked between cylinders.

Past experience has taught me to do the teardown, and see what you have to work with, for something that has set that long. If the block is solid, you can get a sleeve set, crank checked and turned if necessary, w/bearings, a valve job, gaskets, and you have a new engine.
 

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