Well my dad has officially named the 124 with the front blade the "little bulldozer". Its come in handy on a couple jobs so far,
We've been chasing an intermittent loading of the engine off an on for several months (gimme a break, its been used once since fall of the year). While searching for the problem, we have found a ton of "that might be it" issues. Already replaced a bunch of sketchy wiring and bad connections. Decided a valve was getting lazy, so off with the head. Appears head is leaking on both sides of the gasket, gonna face it off. Exhaust valve had a dark, rough spot on the stem--thinking this may have been slowing its movement down, so polishing it up. Intake looks pretty good, will clean it up as well. Got to digging in my stash and I think I have a new intake valve--if so guess where its going. The exhaust really needs touching on a grinder. The seats look better than the valves, may be able to just get by lapping them. I'll figure it out as I go--remember this is NOT for mowing the yard 2 hours a week so I'm not sending it to a machine shop to have the seats ground properly.
Also found the really nice used muffler we "lost" back when I cleaned up the shop a month ago--it will replace the original IH muffler on the machine. Also going to address the sponge of a gas tank--I can't tell if I have one leak or 15.
I did notice the belt on the hydraulic pump looks "experienced"--Guess I need to replace it. And the driveline, well the clutch doesn't slip but something just doesn't feel right---does it ever end with these things???
We've been chasing an intermittent loading of the engine off an on for several months (gimme a break, its been used once since fall of the year). While searching for the problem, we have found a ton of "that might be it" issues. Already replaced a bunch of sketchy wiring and bad connections. Decided a valve was getting lazy, so off with the head. Appears head is leaking on both sides of the gasket, gonna face it off. Exhaust valve had a dark, rough spot on the stem--thinking this may have been slowing its movement down, so polishing it up. Intake looks pretty good, will clean it up as well. Got to digging in my stash and I think I have a new intake valve--if so guess where its going. The exhaust really needs touching on a grinder. The seats look better than the valves, may be able to just get by lapping them. I'll figure it out as I go--remember this is NOT for mowing the yard 2 hours a week so I'm not sending it to a machine shop to have the seats ground properly.
Also found the really nice used muffler we "lost" back when I cleaned up the shop a month ago--it will replace the original IH muffler on the machine. Also going to address the sponge of a gas tank--I can't tell if I have one leak or 15.

I did notice the belt on the hydraulic pump looks "experienced"--Guess I need to replace it. And the driveline, well the clutch doesn't slip but something just doesn't feel right---does it ever end with these things???
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