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<blockquote data-quote="Surveyor" data-source="post: 76793" data-attributes="member: 11045"><p>Hey everyone, I'm new to your forum as of today. I just purchased a 743B in real bad shape. I have restored cars my whole life and love to work on them in my spare time. With that said I would love to restore this broken down beat up 743B to look and run like new. So I just got it home yesterday and I'm excited to get started. The problem is that I have no prior experience with any heavy equipment or diesel engines. So where do I start? I will list a few things I see wrong below and maybe you guys can help me get started. This should be fun but I will have many questions for this forum's members. No battery. No key. The guy told me the motor was frozen because of water going down the exhaust pipe. No bucket. No quick attachment thingy. The cage is bent like the top got pushed down but not too bad. One side is sticking out a little. Question #1 : Should I remove the glow plugs and add trans fluid to the cylinders to see if I can get it to free up like I used to do to old frozen car engines or is there another way. I think I can do this while I search for a battery and new ignition switch. Thanks in advanced for the help</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Surveyor, post: 76793, member: 11045"] Hey everyone, I'm new to your forum as of today. I just purchased a 743B in real bad shape. I have restored cars my whole life and love to work on them in my spare time. With that said I would love to restore this broken down beat up 743B to look and run like new. So I just got it home yesterday and I'm excited to get started. The problem is that I have no prior experience with any heavy equipment or diesel engines. So where do I start? I will list a few things I see wrong below and maybe you guys can help me get started. This should be fun but I will have many questions for this forum's members. No battery. No key. The guy told me the motor was frozen because of water going down the exhaust pipe. No bucket. No quick attachment thingy. The cage is bent like the top got pushed down but not too bad. One side is sticking out a little. Question #1 : Should I remove the glow plugs and add trans fluid to the cylinders to see if I can get it to free up like I used to do to old frozen car engines or is there another way. I think I can do this while I search for a battery and new ignition switch. Thanks in advanced for the help [/QUOTE]
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