Ok so I forgot to upload a chapter last Sunday but for where I wanted to end this in January this works out. So since everything is pretty much back on schedule the next one will be the first Sunday in December.

The next day Ruby was sitting there waiting on Weiss again with another sixty-four ounce coffee. When Weiss walked in, all she did was raise an eyebrow and thank Ruby for the coffee. After she took a sip, she turned to Ruby "So what is on the agenda for today?" Ruby perked up "Well we still have to install the rear main seal, governor bearing, magneto, front main seal, the thermostat housing minus the thermostat, water pump, water pump pulley, the intake/exhaust manifold, oil pump, oil filter adapter, oil screen pick up, governor, flywheel, press-" Weiss had slapped her hand over Ruby's mouth. "Ruby I get it there is still a hell of a lot to do." Weiss took a rather large sip of coffee and removed her hand from Ruby. "Now where do we need to start first?" Ruby grinned "We need to start with finishing up the upper end first probably since that has the most small pieces that have to be just so." Ruby walked over to the engine stand and slowly flipped the engine back up right. "Weiss while I go get the push rods put a big drop of lube down on top of the lifters I'll be right back." When Ruby came back, she carefully guided the push rods into place making sure that they were sitting on the end of the lifters. Weiss anticipating what was next had already rinsed off the rocker arms with ether and blow-dried them. She passed them to Ruby and watched as Ruby got them in place. Ruby then set them back off the side and got the two studs that screw into the head that help holds the rocker arms down and put a few drops of motor oil on the threads and screwed them in to the head with the stud tool that she had laid out earlier that morning. She then placed the rocker arms back on the head and lined up the push rods with all the rockers. Weiss put some oil on the other two bolts that hold down the middle of the rocker arm assembly and passed them to Ruby. "Ok Weiss from here on out there really isn't a set torque on anything it is just by feel. So you know how a bolt feels when you over tighten it right? Well these have to be tight but not that tight."

"Ok and why are you telling me this?"

Ruby answered her by placing a ratchet, socket in her hand, and sat down. Weiss pouted a little and got to work on tightening the two bolts and two nuts that hold down the assembly. Ruby suddenly popped up on the opposite side of the engine from her. "Make sure you tighten them down equally because I left the arms set like they were to see how far off the thing was when it was running. Also yes I know that grinding the valves and the seats did move them but it is mostly to see how far off it is now."

After another minute Weiss had the rocker arm, assembly secured. "Now what do we do?" We now move on to installing the governor bearing and governor." Ruby then grabbed a small hammer and the bearing driver kit again and proceeded to drive the bearing into place. Once that was done Ruby lined up the governor timing marks on the cam with the marks on the governor gear and after, putting a few drops of lube on it pushed it into place. "Now that that is done we can install the front plate and the front main on the engine. Are you familiar with what gasket shellac is?" Weiss thought for a moment. "I've heard of it but I've never seen it." Ruby smiled. "Well today is your lucky day because that is what I use on the front main just to make sure that it seals into the plate." Ruby then pulled a tiny dirty looking bottle out of a nearby shelf. "This is shellac." Weiss took the bottle from her and looked inside it. What she saw resembled liquefied tar in color and viscosity. "How is this going to help it looks like it would melt out of it." Ruby continued to smile. "When shellac sets up Weiss it just about has to be chiseled out or burned, it won't melt. Here hand me the bottle." Once she had the bottle, she made sure that she had the seal flipped the right way along with the front plate and took the brush that was in the bottle and carefully coated the out edge of the seal that made contact with the plate with shellac. After she closed the bottle, she drove the seal into place and turned to Weiss. "See what I was doing with it now? The plate at some point in time has been beat to death for some reason. This is just to make sure that it will not leak. Now that that is done the same thing applies to the gasket for this plate but instead of using shellac you get to play in the copper gasket maker again." Weiss pouted because she had grown to hate using the stuff because it got everywhere. Ruby laid the plate out face down and while Weiss applied a thin layer to the plate. Ruby placed the camshaft thrust plunger and spring into the end of the cam. While Weiss was trying to get the excess off her fingers Ruby carefully laid the new gasket on the plate and gently pressed it in so that it would stick. She then carefully lined up the studs on the block with the plate and pressed the plate on the block she then held it there with one hand while putting in a few bolts with her other so that it wouldn't fall off. "Ok Weiss, remember the four studs that held the front axle to the tractor? Well now you can put those back in and remember to use plenty of anti-seize on them when you do." Weiss nodded and got to work with the stud tool screwing the studs back into the block while Ruby installed the cover that housed the governor control rod and spring onto the front plate since it was now installed when Weiss was done.

About the time that Weiss finished with the studs Ruby had laid out the new rear main, back plate, gasket, and oil pump/ filter adapter. "Weiss here is where things get a little tricky: the oil pan bolts onto the back plate on the block and there is the matter of the gasket. There are two ways of dealing with this, both of which come out more or less the same but one way is harder than the other because the new rear main will fit the crank tighter than the old one since it is felt. The best way to get the plate back on the block is to soak the felt in oil after installing it in the plate and twisting it back and forth after you get the crank started through the seal. Having the oil pan on the block makes this nearly impossible to do so what we are going to do. Is remove the engine from the stand, install the rear plate with the new seal. Then very carefully lay the engine over on its side on wood blocks and install the oil screen then the oil pan. Once that is done we can carefully set it back up right and install the flywheel, clutch and pressure plate." Ruby then pulled out the cherry picker and straps to lift the engine up so that they could remove the mounting plate off the back of the engine. While Ruby was doing that Weiss had retrieved the wrenches necessary to remove the plate and about the time that Ruby had lifted the engine up a little bit to that the pressure off the stand Weiss had returned. A couple minutes later Ruby had placed the blocks under the engine and had lowered it down and removed the straps.

"Now that is done we can install the plate but first we have to carefully insert the new felt into the plate and soak the felt in oil first." Weiss nodded and went to look for the squirt oilcan while Ruby sat down with a tiny flat screwdriver and worked the new felt seal into the groove on the back plate. Weiss came back when Ruby was about half way through with the seal and watched as Ruby continued to pack the seal into the groove. Once Ruby was done, she held out the plate for Weiss to slowly add oil to it so that it would soak it up. Once it wouldn't hold any more Ruby walked over to the engine with Weiss in tow and started working the plate on to the crank. Once Ruby had the seal completely over the crank, she twisted the plate back and forth a few times and pulled it back off the crank. Weiss then passed Ruby the gasket that she had laid out for the plate and Ruby lined up the gasket and the plate pressed the plate back onto the crank finally pushing it up all the way on the block this time. "Ok Weiss the time has come once again. I know you are probably beginning to hate the stuff by now but with old stuff like this, it can be your best friend. What I want you to do now is put a drop of sealant on each of the bolts before you screw them in because all of the bolts in the plate I'm sure you remember has those copper washers to seal the oil in the crankcase. Adding the gasket sealant to the threads is just an added precaution to make certain that they don't leak. Once you are done firmly tighten them and use one long single piece of wire to tie all of the bolts to lock them in."

Ruby ran across the street to get a coke while Weiss was busy with the bolts. When she came back, Weiss was just putting the finishing touches on the wire. She had made a cross with the wire between everyone of the bolts all the way around the plate. When Ruby saw this, she nodded in satisfaction. "Good job Weiss! Now that that aggravating plate is back on the engine, we can lay it over on its side and put the oil pan back on the engine. Ruby laid down a few more blocks in a position that when she grabbed the head and pulled it towards it laying the left side of the engine gently over. Once it was in position, she grabbed the oil pan bolt, gasket, oil screen and pan. After Ruby screwed on the oil screen they got the oil pan bolted back up to the engine. Ruby rearranged the blocks some more and walked back around the top side of the engine. With a little effort, she flipped it back upright to where it was setting just on the edges of the oil pan on the sides of the block.

"Now that that mess is done Weiss all that we have to do before we can mount the engine back on the rest of the tractor along with the front axle is install the oil pump/adapter, flywheel, clutch, and pressure plate in that order." Ruby picked up the gaskets for the oil pump and adapter while Weiss got the pump and adapter themselves. Ruby wiped the block down with more lacquer thinner and placed the gasket on the parts and held them up while Weiss installed the bolts once that was done Ruby reattached the oil supply line to the head. Next Ruby then laid out the flywheel on the bench she had set out the sander again and put a fresh sheet of sandpaper on it. "Ok Weiss since this thing is slightly rusted but not enough to warrant the need to have it milled. To shine it up just run the sander over it. Keep moving constantly. While you do that, I'm going to take a piece of sandpaper and very lightly wipe over the clutch to freshen it up. Once you are done rinse it off with ether and take it and the bolts over to the back of the engine." Weiss started up the sander and started going around and around the flywheel. After a couple of minutes, it looked pretty good and she did as Ruby asked. About the time, that she got there here came Ruby with the torque wrench and socket for the flywheel bolts. "Ok Weiss this is pretty fool proof there are no studs in the flywheel or the crank like newer stuff as you can see. What they did when they designed this is if you look closely at the bolt hole pattern you will notice that a couple of them are offset differently on one side. Just line them up and screw the bolts in once that is done, torque the flywheel bolts to fifty foot pounds and then you can wire them together like you have been doing." Weiss nodded and got to work installing the flywheel. She had a little trouble holding up the flywheel and screwing the bolts in at first, but when Ruby noticed this she quickly stepped in and held it for her. Once she was done torquing the bolts down. She got the wire that they had been using and tied the bolts together in pairs. When Ruby noticed that she was done she motioned for Weiss to come over to the bench where she was busy wrapping a socket and extension in tape. It confused the hell out of Weiss why Ruby would be doing that.

Ruby noticed the confused look on Weiss' face when she approached her and decided to test Weiss' knowledge a little. "So Weiss can you tell why I'm wrapping this socket and extension in tape?"

Weiss hesitated for a second trying to think of any reason why. "I don't have the slightest clue Ruby."

Ruby grinned knowing that Weiss was about to learn something new that was probably frowned upon at that fancy school Weiss had gone to. "Well Weiss seeing as this is something that is a bit of an odd ball size clutch and flywheel I am not about to pay out for the actual clutch alignment tool that I will very rarely use so by wrapping up this socket and extension it will work out just as good as using the regular tool."

Weiss nodded "I guess that makes sense."

Ruby finished up and packed the clutch pressure plate bolts over the engine. She flipped the clutch over so that the grease slinger was facing the flywheel and carefully placed the pressure plate against the clutch. Weiss then screw in enough bolts to hold the clutch in place. Ruby then took her homemade clutch alignment tool and lined up the clutch and pilot bearing. Going back over to the bench, she got the socket and ratchet that she needed to tighten up the pressure plate bolts. Weiss watched as Ruby methodically tightened up the bolts. "Ok Weiss now that that is done we need to set the clutch fingers. They set out 1-13/16" from the clutch disc to the to the point of contact on the throw out bearing. So while I get the wrenches to loosen the jam nuts and turn the bolts would you please get the digital dial calipers?"

"Sure"

A couple minutes later, they had started adjusting the fingers; it wasn't going to take that long Ruby knew since there were only three of them anyway.

"Great work Weiss, how about we call it a day all that is left actually doesn't take all that long. I ordered a new oil bath for it where the old was rusted out. While we finish up the engine, we can burn the gas tank so that once we are done with the engine we just have to worry about the fuel system, which will be really easy or really annoying. It can go either way with old stuff like this. See you tomorrow Weiss."

"Yeah see you to Ruby."