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In Reply to: MF 255 posted by Sandy Smock on Saturday, September 05, 2009:
Checking the valve (tappets) is key to do after you get one without service history or know it has not been done.
We just got the FIL 1976 265 MF with 1226 actual hours and everyone said skip checking the valves so that was a red flag. :)
With .012 of an inch being correct they ranged from .011 to .016 except for #6 which was at .035 but being a diesel I did not hear it being loose.
After getting it back to running I used coolant flush to clean the block and took the radiator to the a shop to be professionally cleaned and flow tested.
With the nose open and battery out I am cleaning, scraping and will repaint all the parts as I go back together with it. May or may not take all the red sheet metal to a paint shop. I need to get it back together so I can bush hog the stalks and get stated with my new MBX 960 Bush Hog box blade cleaning up around the place before putting the farm on the market.
I am going deeper than most to make it look and function like new. He used it this summer before his passing Labor Day weekend and was 93. In another 33 years I will be 91 so I am trying to go overboard plus it has been in the family 33 years already.
Lot of good pointers have been posted.
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