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Well I finished braking it all down. I had one stud that was missing and the hole needed to be rethreaded. I then cleaned all the gasket surfaces with a file. The crank Gear came right off with a puller. I used a valve spring compressor on the valve springs and with a couple taps on the valve heads the keepers fell right off. I made sure to label and keep all valves in there original home. A couple of the valves look like they need to be ground down, as well as the seats. I took the crank to a local machine shop to see if it was serviceable. Luckily it was, for the very reasonable price of 60$. Today I ordered some new crank bearings and rod bearings from Florin tractor for 165$, all .030 undersized, they were the best price by far. Thanks to the parts source posting that everyone has been contributing to. I also ordered the seals and all the gaskets from my local cat dealer for around 100$ . I soaked the cab in carb cleaner over night and now is squeaky clean. I still need to drill out the plugs and make sure all those passages are clean as well. I still need to measure the cylinders and decide on what to do with rings. Here are some photos of the latest work. Thanks for tuning in ...more to come
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