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Been away for a few days so just caught up with this video! Great stuff! We used a borrowed engine crane and fitted the bell housing on before refitting. Our flat belt was completely useless so I got a new one made up by someone in Kings Lynn which we fitted over the drive pulley as the engine went back in. It was a little tight initially but stretched enough are leaving in gear to release the threshing mechanism from the engine for starting up. I seem to remember that getting some of the engine bolts back in was a pain in the arxe!

I never like doing the sealing canvas and sliding skirts on grain pans either and always end up dropping a nut or washer in the fanning mill which then has to be fetched out, quick question concerning the bearing retaining nut on the gearbox input shaft, would it be worth putting a spot of loctite on the thread to ensure the nut can't come undone again? also regarding the sucking air in the fuel system on the telehandler (is it a JCB 520?), if it's got mainly metal pipes have a check of the "fit" of the pipes in things such as the filter heads etc as any pipe flares or olives can take on a compressed set letting air in, careful use of ptfe tape or loctite 577 will seal them up.

Like the idea of using ATF and a polishing mop on the faded paintwork, i'm gonna try and get the boss (Dave Rushton machinery) to invest in a polisher as we need a means of reviving paintwork/plastics on the machines we get in (we do a lot of exporting pre electric/electronic and hydraulic combines to developing countries ---- they don'twant anything that can't be repaired by a bit of metalwork or replacing bushes/bearings, belts or chains).

Check the fuel cut control pin (remove the cover plate, lift the pin out and clean the pin and the bore with carb cleaner to remove any gummy diesel) is not gummed and sticking in the bottom of it's bore as the pin needs to be able to move up & down (opening the port at the bottom of the bore) as well as being able to twist round (the fuel groove on the side) as i've seen this on a few CAV DPA pumps on machines i'm trying to get going again after standing for long periods.

good to see

Good progress and I like the socket spanner you made great work.

Thanks for sharing all your mechanical adventures, my family ran Fordsons and Massey combines in the U.K back in the day, and I still collect Fordson majors here in Canada. I was born in 1974, and remember the last fordson on the farm and the day the Massey combine went in the scrap, from memory it was about as nice looking as this one, so was a shame it ended that way like so many more nobody wanted. I had a JCB 3c2 in the early 90's that started doing goofy things like your machine with fuel. It had a factory original rubber hose feeding from the tank to the lift pump. The hose started breaking up inside and a flap of rubber would lift plug the flow then when the bleeder was opened it laid back down and ran for a while until it did it again, an old JCB driver freind of mine told me about them doing it, so fitted a new hose and it never did it again. The other thing I had happen on a county 954 tractor was the tank air vent plugged and it would run 15 minutes consistently then stop. it couldn't pull fuel with the vacuum forming in the tank but ran after bleeding the system, I changed the vented cap and that stopped it. Take care

Many years back I has a 3CX that kept dragging air about ten minutes into a new filter and it turned out to be a bad batch of filters. fitted with the wrong paper. (genuine, supplied by TC Harrison) Bought different filters and no more problem. Probably not your issue but worth a look mate. This rain is good for spuds but not for getting anything done. Enjoying your videos. Thanks for sharing.

Looking good steve

interesting video and progress is good

I'll find you another when you get that done 😉

We used to bolt a home made 3 point linkage frame to the front of the engine, then mount it on a tractor and use position control on a tractor to fit and remove the engines. You could do this with the elevator in place.

Pack the bell housing and the front of the engine up with some washers to slacken the drum belt until it stretches

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Great job on that canvas 👍any job inside a combine is a bugger replacing straw walker blocks etc 🙄😳🤬🤬 shame the weather hasn't been kind to you 😐 but progress is progress 👌 another great video 👌

Got to say I love these videos can't wait to see it harvesting

Great update, shame about the weather!

Your making progress ! Not easy work but your doing a great job ! Great video again !

The trumpet ends on my 1939 standard seem to have been machined up for some purpose, may be for brakes then I’m thinking now. It is possible the trumpets may have come from later tractor as the tractor had work done on back end years ago. Any thoughts?

Great video Steve nice to see your keeping the old muckspreaders going and doing job they were built to do. It will be an impressive sight the three spreaders working 👌👍 Is there any chance of coming to have a look at them working?

Fab,thanks.

Another good vid. Thanks&thumbs up.

We had one of them. Dad was a real Massey man. Two problems with them, chains prone to separating and wheel could skid on wet grass and it wouldn’t spread. Muck needed to be loose and properly rotted, not straight from yard.

Really enjoying these videos, inspiration for my own too, be nice to see it working again

Great job. Looking forward to seeing it run.

Was great to see how the parking brake is made up, when I push pedal down now I’ll know what’s going on! This is very informative project your doing👍

I was one of those happy lads sitting on the toolbox for a lot of the summer. No danger at all from that big flat belt pulley. Later we got a 788 special, luxury!

Was hoping to buy you a coffee today steve at market rasen auction . p6 e27n had your name on it untill it started in clouds of smoke and on 4 cylinders ,

its coming along nicely

Good update video ty 👍 engine sounds really good 💪 know it was running without an air cleaner but sounded so like s Bedford CF i drove, ive only ever stripped a fuel pump once and it had that same problem with the stop control 🙄 noticed the oil pressure gauge was well up in the red when engine was running and seems to be a Perkins thing as just about every machine ive driven with a Perkins showed high oil pressure 🙄 amazing how well the paintwork on the combine came up with the mop and ATF 👌 roll on next Saturdays video 👍

Engine sounds great and the combine is looking amazing. It appears to be in excellent condition- we had a lot more tin worm in ours! Well done!

What a transformation on the combine. Looking forward to it running up.

That engine sounds better than my truck engine (daf 450 xg)

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Excellent update! Great to see the engine running, and sounding great too! The combine is looking great, it looks to be in excellent condition and certainly your treatment works a treat!

The engine sounds good not many weeks now when 780 can go back to work ! Great video again !

Great to see them saved as I'm sure many of us have seen a old Massey spreader rotting in the nettles only to be pulled out and scraped

See you have the decompression lever on your major, thought they were only fitted on the export tractors. Have you seen many majors with them over the years? I’ve just subscribed you have very interesting channel mate!👍

Thumbs up mate#88.That 'power major' is perfect. Thanks.

Spuds,shit,oil&grease.....what,s not to like? Thanks mate.

Good video, I knew the muck spreaders would win out in the end...........

As per normal steve spot on great stuff

interesting video

Great watch 👍

Reminds me of my youth when a contractor came and loaded them with a Ferguson and banana loader and at least one was towed round by a Standard Fordson! Great bit of restoration!

They were good muck spreaders they look in good nick ! Your spuds look good as well ! Great video again !

Another great video - what a fantastic collection of muck spreaders, took me back to my youth!

That lovely looking Gleaner A humpback in the photos now belongs to Trevor Kerfoot. Its a very tidy one. I remember seeing the photos of that little get together

Only a minor blip steve bet you had it sorted in no time at all

give it a shot of either and keep it running on it i am sure the pump would soon free off once spinning round