Anyway update for today since its now quitting time. I got all the parts swapped, and I had a few bolts on the "new" engine decide they were going to break rather than come out nice so that set me back a bit, but got them all taken care of minus one exhaust manifold stud I'm going to have to round up tomorrow. Now it looks like I'm going to be waiting until Tuesday for the gasket to arrive to do much more. One project I do have before then is going to be making a mount for the fuel filter. On the old engine it bolted to the side of the fuel pump housing, but this one has a primer bolted up in that place, so I'm going to have to round up a piece of metal and make a bracket for it. One of these days I'll add some pictures when I get time to get on the computer. A question I do have if anyone knows anything about it is there's some sort of fuel on off solenoid or something going in to the fuel pump that I didn't have before. It has 2 wires coming from it that I'm guessing I'm going to have to figure out what to hook them to. If anyone has any pointers let me know.
Here is a before picture of the project. I was lucky that as soon as the engine started acting up that I raised the boom and locked it out. Would have been a whole other project to raise the boom to get access to the engine compartment.
First, I removed the engine cover, then the radiator. The oil cooler lines were a bugger to get loose, and made me take a trip to my storage unit to grab my torches, which ended up being used quite a few times along the way in the project.
I tried to take quite a few pictures along the way to keep track of wiring locations and such as I started taking things apart.
I got ahead of myself on taking pictures and forgot to get any of the steering components before I took them apart to get access to the 2 bolts that hold the engine to the pump. Did get a picture afterward so someone can see where they are and how access is found to them. A bit more probably have been taken apart to gain better access though. It really was a bugger to get them out from this point.
Here is a picture of the engine out, after I took a pressure washer and got most of the crud out from inside of the engine compartment. After cleaning it up a little bit, I decided since I have some time until the new engine shows up I would throw a little fresh paint at the machine. Really, I wish I had enough time, and a shop set up to tear the machine down further at this point and do a nice job, but I havent said yet that this engine catastrophe happened to me when I am in the middle of building my own house, and I am in total disarray with all of my tools things scattered all over the place, and no shop to work in at the time, which I have been rather spoiled with over the years.
Here is a picture of one side with a coat of paint on it. I went to the local farm and fleet store and first came back with a couple spray cans marked New Holland yellow. Apparently these were for some kind of tractor because they were no where near the same yellow as the machine, were like a real light canary yellow. I went back and got a gallon of New Cat yellow and bought a cheap spray gun from Menards. As for the painting, I used a air orbital sander and some 80 grit discs and simply knocked down all the really bubbly spots and as much loose paint as I could. I used some rust olem spray can primer and sprayed the cat yellow on top. Since I was doing just a real quick crappy job, I went right over the stickers and all, masked off nothing, just used paper towels with paint thinner to clean off as much overspray as I could. I went around what the lift arms were covering, and probably will hit those some time after the machine is back up and running. It does look 10 times better than it did when I started, so I will call it a success of some sort anyway.
Here is a picture of the intake side of the new engine after I have got it prepped and got the parts I need off the old engine put on it. Waiting until I go to the store and get a couple more nuts to mount the fuel filter.
Picture of the front of the engine with the parts installed.
Picture of the exhaust side of the engine. I am going to install the exhaust manifold after the engine is in, because I do not want to bust off the bolts that are rusted real good holding the muffler to it. I really struggled getting the exhaust manifold off the "new" engine, and had to replace a stud that I had no choice but to burn off. I took a die and cleaned up the threads on all the other studs, and they should work much better going back together.
Sorry for the delay on the pictures, but I really dont get much time to get to the computer, most of my posts come from my phone. I will try my best to get pictures of the reassembly and post another picture update once this is done.
