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<blockquote data-quote="Netherfield" data-source="post: 7855524" data-attributes="member: 6536"><p>Never short of parts books or maintenance manuals, he would just ring publication and have them sent to his office, he got me the piston tool and a valve seat cutter, but they were well used and being replaced by new ones and would have only ended in the scrap bin.</p><p></p><p>Only other useful items were crankshafts, and these were also destined for the scrap bin because the journals had been damaged, 10thou regrind cured that but of course you couldn't send new tractors out with them fitted, although a large amount of 3 cylinder engines went out with liners fitted, someone had bored the block wrongly on a night shift operation, reckoned they couldn't afford scrap all those blocks, they were sent out to a former employee who now worked for himself locally. </p><p></p><p>Almost eyerybody who worked in O block (Engines) who had a Ford or British Leyland car had a spare alternator 'borrowed' from the factory, all they had to do was drop one and damage the end case and it was declared scrap, then if you needed to fit it to your car just swap the old cover over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Netherfield, post: 7855524, member: 6536"] Never short of parts books or maintenance manuals, he would just ring publication and have them sent to his office, he got me the piston tool and a valve seat cutter, but they were well used and being replaced by new ones and would have only ended in the scrap bin. Only other useful items were crankshafts, and these were also destined for the scrap bin because the journals had been damaged, 10thou regrind cured that but of course you couldn't send new tractors out with them fitted, although a large amount of 3 cylinder engines went out with liners fitted, someone had bored the block wrongly on a night shift operation, reckoned they couldn't afford scrap all those blocks, they were sent out to a former employee who now worked for himself locally. Almost eyerybody who worked in O block (Engines) who had a Ford or British Leyland car had a spare alternator 'borrowed' from the factory, all they had to do was drop one and damage the end case and it was declared scrap, then if you needed to fit it to your car just swap the old cover over. [/QUOTE]
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