We are all here like castaways with a sickness, marooned on uncharted island in the Pacific. The more we help each other out, the longer we will all survive.
(is that profound, or what?)

149 rebuild
 

Made some progress on my 149 engine rebuild the past few days. The engine is now installed in the tractor and I started it up for the first time yesterday. Engine turned over about 2 times and hit as soon as I set the choke. I immediately pushed the choke back open and the engine died. Started it again and it hit as soon as I closed the choke. Slowly opened choke and engine kept running. Released the brake and moved hydro lever forward and moved tractor to just in front of garage. Had engine throttle a little below half throttle. Let the engine run for about 30 minutes. Shut engine off and let cool. After it cooled, I re-torqued the head bolts. Took a quick video of it running along with a few pictures of the engine going into the frame. Could hear a miss in engine every now and then, but I have not adjusted the carb.. Hope an adjustment will take the miss out. Did not see any oil under engine this morning but I have my fingers crossed. Will not be able to work on it today, but maybe tomorrow morning. Will try to attach pictures and video. Thanks for every ones help, and have a great day. Have to post again for video.
Bob

Fantastic!

I'm sure you'll tune out that small miss when you get to adjusting the carb.

Thanks for the great narrative and pics and letting us look over your shoulder Bob!

John

Glad to hear you got it running Bob.:beerchug:

149 Rebuild
 

Hope this video will upload. It has been timing out before it finishes. Video must be too long. Sorry.
Bob

You can't post a video right to this site. You have to upload it to YouTube first and then post a link to it.

Good to hear Bob! :ThumbsUp:

Great yob Bob. Compression release doing its thing?

149 rebuild
 

Not had any time to adjust the carburetor. My Daughter and her twin 15 year old daughters were in from Maryland for a few days. They left this morning and I went down to the garage to take a shorter video of the tractor running. We all love pictures and videos. Turned the key to start and the starter did not turn one revolution before it started. I am a believer of setting the time while engine is on work bench. Still has a slight miss but I am too tired to adjust it today. Alvy the cam compression release is doing it's job. Have no problem with the compression like I had before. Thanks every one for the help and parts. Going to try to post this shorter video again. I thought that I had posted a video to a thread before from my computer. Have a great day.
Could not post as some one has stated. Can anyone suggest a good free site where I can upload the video? Thanks.
Bob

YouTube. It's free.