ran into a snag on K301, x2.
ruined the starter/gen pulley on it. I'm glad the other one came off so easy. and that I have lowered my standards/expectations to getting 1 good engine from 2 engines' worth of parts. I was originally gonna build both of them up even though I don't have a machine here for the 2nd one.
I actually bought the puller that "parts by Jeff" (member on more- Cub cadet-centric sites) over the summer, "for" this job. I put this puller he made onto the pulley on engine #2 back in like, June or July. I left it sit on there, since like the day after I got it, under tension this whole time.... thinking it would finally (eventually) give in/ being that I didn't have to be in a hurry for that one. I actually forgot about it, as I've done a few other things since then.
Over this past weekend I was moving some stuff around in the garage, and got tired of moving them. so they're past time to be taken apart for eval/inspection anyway.
I have most of an 85 Dodge D-150 sitting behind these and a Swisher trailmower, that I want to make some progress on over this winter.... which involves getting that D150 over to the other bay of the garage where my 2 post lift is..... and this stuff has to move, for that to happen.
I acquired all the parts, every little bit needed, to convert the truck from auto to 4 speed stick, unexpectedly, 2 weekends ago so that project is going in a different direction, as soon as my new clutch gets here. Plans are to take the flywheel for that to the machine shop to be resurfaced, when I take 1 engine's worth of K301 parts to the machine shop. (I wasnt thinking that way, until a buddy of mine in Indy who has my truck's twin, decided to do some garage cleaning and made me an offer I couldn't say "no" to.)
I took the puler tool off that engine and put it on K301, x1 and it worked like butter. Back on engine #2 and.... nothing. I sprayed and sprayed and sprayed that thing, over the past couple months, in between sprays, I emery cloth-ed the snot out of the crank on engine #2. so I pulled the tool off, and got the big oxyacetylene torch out, and heated the hub cherry red. I gingerly put the puller back on. Wouldn't budge. Repeated this a few times, as soon as the redness left (parts were still hot, mind you) it wouldn't budge.
So I put a ball joint/tie rod seperator in between the block and pulley, wedged a tapered chisel in between the skinny tips of the ball joint tool. It moved a hair. I had taken the purpose built puller off, since I managed to pull the threads out of it..... I get the hub cherry red, and heard all the "grunting" sounds that heating metal makes, (usually when the bond breaks) and went at it with hammer, chisel and ball joint wedge from behind the pulley. . every time the "red" faded away it stopped moving. I had to keep that hub cherry red for it to keep making progress towards "off".
By the time I got the hub flush with the end of the crank, I had mangled the thing. so now it don't matter if I cut it off, its FUBAR'ed anyway.
I haven't touched it since it rolled off the table I was working on, and hit the ground. I did get the square key driven out the back side and completely out of its groove, which made no difference. I ended up dismantling the rest of the engine, all that is left of that engine is the block, crank and the cam bobbling around in there since it won't come out with the crank in the way. so now out comes the cutoff wheel......
