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Originally Posted by ol'George
Just a afterthought, did the valve clearance work out ok?
You 'prolly had to adjust the length of the valves as there is no "adjustment"
on the lifter. if not, now is the time to take care of that.
looking good so far!
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I was careful keep the tappets and valves in thier original locations, so the cylinder that was orignal to the genset crankcase, the valve clearances came out .004" on the intake, and .012' on the exhaust, I did not have to adjust at all. On the cylinder that was off of the Cub crankcase, those were zeroed out. I had to grind the valve stems, on each valve. Intake ended up @ .003 / exhaust @ .012"
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Originally Posted by Matt G.
I would clean those heads up with a sheet of glass and sandpaper. What you have now is probably not going to seal well. And now it's too late, but do not sandblast aluminum...it creates a whole bunch of little stress risers that can/will initiate cracks.
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Ok, Thanks for the heads up. I'll pull those heads off and replace them with the ones from the genset engine. I tried to use as much of the genset engine as I could, because it was such a low hour unit, but the heads each had (1) of the 1/4-20 screws broke off in them. The screws that retain the tins. No biggie, I'll drill those out and retap them.
In my defense, the tip of the sand blaster never came within 18" of the heads, I was just trying to remove the carbon. I could have sworn I read that in the service manual, where it was a recomended proceedure. But after I read you comment I went back and rechecked it, and it is not there. I must have seeing things. I have not fired the engine up yet, so I think it will be fine.
I did get it bolted back into the tractor yesterday afternoon, man that rear bolt on the starter side
. Wow, I had to walk away from it for a minute, and take a break.
I am working out the location of the remote filter head, most likely I'll put it below the gas tank. I am a little bummed about the oil pressure gauge. The only spot on the dash board where It will fit is rigth where it say "Cub Cadet" embossed in the plastic dash. But oh well. Such is life I guess.
Does anyone have a pic of a 782 engine compartment with the wires acbles hooked up, I'm having brain fade with the throttle cable / governer configuration. I thougth I took more pictures, before disassembly, but I guess not.
Thanks for all the help.