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The rods on these engines have different lengths, that's what determines how far the piston sets below the deck. It's real important to make sure you mark which rod came from what hole. It's a Perkins, NOTHING is easy on a Perkins!
Will know today, got everything tore down just have to unbolt the can pull it out. Got sidetracked, I converted my originally owned 1999 F250 pickup from a 2WD over to a 4WD from a donor 2001 F350 4WD truck, basically made my truck into a F350 4WD with the full auto hub shift on the fly system.
Well I guess I'll know in a few days! I'm in the middle of doing the machine work on a Perkins 1104C, making 1 good engine from 3 bad ones. I'll have to figure out if this DN4M has stock crank journals, don't want to replace rods if I don't have to.
The guy I got it from said he tried starting it, said it started to fire off but then the flywheel just spun, most 4-5 bolt flywheels also use a alignment dowel pin, I'm hoping someone at the depot who assembled the new engine in this forgot the bolts and the dowel pin finely sheared off. Going...
But isn't the drive plate bolted to the flywheel? The engine turns over but the flywheel doesn't move, turn the flywheel through the starter hole and the drive plate/fan turns.
I just picked up a 803A from someone who bought it from auction, Has a new Tier 2 upgrade from 2012 with what looks like a new engine with just a few hours on the Hour Meter. Problem is the the flywheel is not attached to the crank! engine will turn over by hand (Fan blade) and can turn the...