SO PROUD OF YOU TEACHING YOU SON WHAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING, THEY NEED TO LEARN, A LOT OF OOTHER DADS WON'T EVEN BOTHER, PROUD OF YOU!!

Wow!! When your son started to help with the water bracket, that brought memories of way back when I was his age and helped my Dad hold the wheel lugs and screw them on the wheel lug studs. that was many years ago. I still remember that time clearly. Then when I was in High School I rebuilt a Ford 289 V-8 with the help of my Dad.

The little guy is doing great! Nice job Dad!

Really enjoyed the family helping! Wish they had 2 thumbs up!

We had a model g down here in NZ. Was imported by government for agricultural use. Had no hydraulics but 6spped version. Ran on power kero. When my father bought it in 1962 for 52 pounds, 11 shillings (NZ$105) then it had a log book with extensive maintenance records. Had been rebuilt, few clutches etc but also 38,200 hrs. We owned it for 17 years. Only thing we had to do was clean magneto as we lived in very wet climate and one day it broke a tappet adjuster and I drove it home on one cylinder. Was a bitch to start if you stalled it hot. Never had a battery but sometimes we would jump start it with cables. Would out pull at 62hp diesel. First started driving it when I was eight years old. Obviously Dad would start it. Fond memories.

Brings back recent memories....I restored my grandfather's 1956 John Deere 50 in my two car garage. Took months, but it was parade show condition.

That is so nice of you to let your son help you. It also sets up the next generation to be self sufficient, it also will help him when his bike breaks down he can fix it. Great job fathering.

Hang on to working with your boy. They grow up so quickly. You are blessed to have him.

I’ve got a 47 model A and Have a lot of the same issues that you are going through so thanks for the video. Your lighthearted approach is also enjoyable 😂

I'm so relieved to see the workshop turn up to make sure you wasn't slacking and doing the job right. Such a bright lad you guys must be really chuffed with him and not leaving the workshop manager, now she looks like she runs a tight ship so do as you are told 😊. Great channel young man Gary 🇬🇧🇬🇧

Awesome job letting your son tighten some of the bolts - I can remember my dad having me help him 60 years ago and they are some of the best memories I have of my dad.

Love seeing your son in there learning too. As someone who spent a lot of time wrenching on things with my dad and uncle when I was younger, he will appreciate it someday.

Nice video, really like the part when you and Kiddo is helping, and you and encouraging his work 👍👍💪

Can’t believe how much of a similar journey that we are going down right now, love watching you work through things on your A as I run into the same quirks and problems with a B I got from my grandpa. Lots of things to learn about these tractors and how to keep them happy

Jordan that was fantastic enjoyed very much and your son helping could not be better the kids look great I love that tractor from the time you picked it up at grandma's with no front wheels on it to rebuilding the front end to now that was great family history.

With the state of the USA and the world, glad you have this one working as a back up to your current tractor. Great job and so happy to see your son working with you & you teaching him with such patience.

Great job on the head gasket replacement!! I have my 1952 John Deere A in pieces at the moment. Replacing governor bearings and going through the engine.

Good job little man, reminds me of my son in the garage at that age. Great life experience. Will always be something that needs to be fixed in the future.😊

Great video and love seeing you let your son help.... keep the videos coming watching from the uk

Way back in my John Deere mechanic’n day I remember using lead washers under the head nut before torquing the nuts. The idea was to help seal any water/coolant from leaking past the nut!

Really enjoyed your little helper. I was smiling the whole time.

The wonderfulness and memories made at 59:00 is out of this world with a man and his son . . . :)

If you take the big round cover off the flywheel you can start it by spinning the flywheel by hand . You might try fixing the starter its not as hard as you might think. If your good enough to do the head gasket you can do the starter. Don't use the silicone gasket use the high tac type. Great to see your son helping , I remember over sixty years ago helping my dad when about your sons age. He will never forget it.

T. Pettijohn Enjoyed watching the video. It was great seeing that you let your son help and your patience while he helped.

Good job Dad! I wish I did more wrench turning with my kids.

enjoyed seeing the boy taking interest.he will help keeo the tractor shows going.

Thank you for showing all the steps as you go

As a new watcher of your videos I think you do a great job . Especially as you never done this before. Good job Jason.

I just completed this same process on my 1949 A. I had to replace the exhaust manifold, so I went ahead and removed the head and replaced the gasket. In my case, I removed the hood so I could clean the oilbath breather which as absolutely clogged with dirt dauber nests over the years. Adjusting the valves was a little tricky. Not an extremely difficult job. Parts were very heavy, but I also did the work by myself. She runs good as new now. Good job on the repair.

Very good teaching your son to use a wrench 🔧. Most parents avoid it . I live on farm and have great brothers and my dad to teach us how to work . We have a couple of john deeres. Thanks dan

Jon, great video with your son! My uncle who was a great mechanic let me help him overhaul John Deeres and I was doing them solo at 16 years of age. One thing I noticed when you're checking the valve lash for the valves, you need to turn the engine around so that the cylinder you are adjusting is on compression stroke because they're not all going to be the same point to adjust. Only the intake and exhaust clearances will be adjustable on each cylinder that is on it's compression stroke. You can take out spark plugs, turn engine until you feel compression, then adjust.

Fantastic, how satisfying that is started first time.

If it's any consolation those doggone things were temperamental when they were new. Still awesome to see people getting the old iron working again though.

Cool video ! Nice tractor!!

Always a good idea to cover those antifreeze pails,pets can't resist drinking it

Great job like always. It dose pay to just do it an learn. That's how I do it. Love your vidios!!!!

They are great tractors !

Nice to see you teaching your boy to get involved with tractors

I grew up operating model G, 51 or 52, l hardly remember using the electric starter, generator quit, dad didn't have the money to get it repaired, took the starter off and cracked it by hand, fingers grabbing flywheel ring gears to hand start, that was about 60-65 years ago. Also pulled or used a belt to start, belt if I didn't someone to drive another tractor or truck. I replaced the generator with an alternator and voltage gage. Changes better when running at lower speeds. Did you use a straight edge check the head? That low spot might be a possible leak place. Next time time you'll remember to put head gasket on first. They were probably lead. The head bolts on model G are 208 ftlbs, but they are a larger bolt.

Great....thank you very much....

Your son is a natural. He is good, seriously.

Great video, I appreciate the effort to get us video inside the action. I hope this works out for you in the long term. It shouldn't be much $ to have the head surfaced, and Peter at "Just a few acres" had a head gasket fail at 40 hours because he used copper seal on a gasket meant to go on bare(turns out the small thickness of the coating prevented adequate crush on the fire rings), but his motor is much higher compression than the popper. Hopefully, yours will work fine, but it highlights the dangers of making assumptions. I was surprised how thin the web between the cylinder and the cooling passage was. This is 40s stuff, not 60s, lol.

Thanks for making this video. I have the same issue on my '47 B with some coolant in the #1 cylinder. Hopefully it is the head gasket.

A very unusual small engine to fit under there, and such a large tractor. You know that flip flops now come with steel cap toes.😂. Good job and good video Jordan, well done.

Your boy is a natural born mechanic!!! Maybe his nick name might be GM!!! Well done my friend!! Thank you for sharing!!!

Ask some of the guys on the John Deere facebook page how to weld that bracket, you can weld cast iron, Nichol weld, but I don't know how! Sometimes, if you don't get the bolts with the led washers, it will leak from the bolt holes, because the bolts go right into the water jacket! Ha, Bud, that wouldn't feel so good on your toes!! you want to tighten the bolts evenly, I'm with you, I don't have help when working on machinery! Up on the fan shaft, right behind the pully, there is a plug, take that out and put a grease zek in it to keep it greased, poor design by JD! Put some oil in that little flap on the generator, I put a sock over the air stack to keep the bugs, bees, and mud doppers out! Good job on the repairs! And the second throttle leaver is for the front shutters, to raise the temp. you pull it back, if it's to hot, move it forward. It should run around 190-200

I have been a heavy diesel mechanic for almost sixty years and I would have defiantly had the head skimmed. From Australia

Ggod helper, my boy always worked with me, now is a better mechanic and fabricator

Great repair job

Good to see that the engine internals are in great condition!

You should be proud of yourself and your boy God bless to you and family if anyone wanted too see some home schooling this is it👍🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺✝️☦️

Love those old John Deere's

Nice tractor and very enjoyable video. It would have had a hard time cranking before you replaced the head gasket because it would have to hydraulic the water the old gasket had leaked by I would imagine. Kind regards, Sussex, UK

In Europe, it was an iconique tractor in the fiftys and sixtis. Super.

Hi love the video of that John Deere A. One thing though is I had one with a water pump on it that I rebuilt and the local John Deere dealer told me if it had a water pump it was a 1952 model and said it was the only year they put water pumps on them. Not sure if he gave me accurate info or not . Had mne stolen and never did find it. Used it alot on the farm as it was the biggest tractor I had at the time. Love the old johnny poppers.

I spent many years from about 9yrs thru high school plowing, disking, cultivating crops on that vary tractor. Good to hear it run. Be very careful with running that in your closed garage, I thought I heard a child in there with you, they will soak up carbon monoxide much easier than we adults.

Your assistant’s doing great!

So back to the beginning. Steiner Tractor sells the Steering Wheel Starter Crank tool for $49. Buy an old used A steering wheel off of. eBay. And like my uncle Eddy used to do hang the extra steering wheel on the intake stack. Stays there for hand cranking. There should be a tool basket inside the frame rail under the oil bath air cleaner for the cranking tool, tool, oil can, rag, adjustible wrench.. I have a '51 A also with a No5 sickle mower . Great machines. Be safe, from Hillsboro, NH. 💚 Good job on the head gasket ,👍

It sounds like the starter would be helped by replacing battery cables and making sure that the ground connections are clean. Also it is very common to find little skinny 12volt cables in the place of the big fat six volt cables that should be there.

I made a fitting to hand start my JD that uses the standard JD lug wrench rather then the steering wheel. Works great and and since my JD has a magneto, no battery is needed.

I don’t know man, anything that turns over that slowly and still starts can’t hate you too bad haha! My dad had a 1952 AR with that crab adapter. He got tired of pulling off the steering wheel and just used a pipe wrench. Chewed the tool up pretty bad over the years but he got it started

Quality steel!

Excellent video. I had a really hard time getting my head to seal properly (even with copper coat). Did you experience any issues with this afterward?

Righty tighty, lefty loosey!!!

the original washers that you removed were lead and prevented the nut from galling the head surface

Nice! Awesome that it starts so much easier now. I need to replace the manifold on my A. Do you think that's doable without getting too deep?

Yes sir sounds like an old John deer

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Was there a leak or a crack in the coolant pipe? I'm thinking that's what's causing the coolant to go into the other pipes. Which of course is not good.

That tractor doesn't need full throttle to start. Also clean your cable connections and make sure they are tight. These jd tractors love a good ground they pull a extreme amount of battery juice when cranking. Your starter is acting like its starving for juice. Clean up and tighten your connections youll be amazed the difference

We used to run a 237 mounted 2 row corn picker on a 51 A before a bigger 730 gasser came and replaced it

Nice work

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That's the 1st tractor I drove with my dad. Wish I had it yet

You were correct you should toque those down in 2 or 3 stages before you get to the final setting

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Love the "work" shoes. 😂

Don't cheap on repairs resurface the head have guides and seats checked and ground. Clutch pulley has a bearing in it on the outer end of the crankshaft that need to be greased. I just replaced mine

Looks like you have a good helper, there.

Glad you are working on old tractors. However you need to wear proper attire! IE; boots and overalls!! Always work safely.

When torquing head bolts if you’d go to the spec then wait overnight you’d be able to get another 1/8 to 1/4 turn more to attain the 125 ft/lbs spec. The head gasket will squish over time.

Good video.

Likely the generator needs synchronizing, Generator synchronization is the process of matching parameters such as voltage, frequency, phase angle, phase sequence, and waveform of alternator (generator) or other source with a healthy or running power system. This is done before the generator is reconnected to the power system. This is very common on generator systems.

Btw that one bolt on the carb is the correct size it's just smaller so it doesn't rub on the little nub on the carb

Use the boxed end of the wrench to break fasteners loose first. When you can’t put the boxed end on then use a line wrench.

You gotta take the fan shaft support out and then the pushrods will come out.

Cleaning the carburetor remove all brass plugs and bake in a self cleaning oven for 3hrs on high clean setting it will turn all junk to powder and blow the passages out and if you have small brushes they are a plus then reassemble with new needle and seat and it will run like new!

Maybe the starter just needs cleaned? I had a bad cable connection on my Jubilee that caused a similar symptom. If you use a manual device to crank the engine, make certain it will disengage as soon as the engine tries to rotate it. In other words it should only be able to transfer power one way and kick-out or otherwise disengage as soon as power tries to run from the engine back to you Edit: Really enjoyed the video. At 1:23:45 there’s a pop/arc under the seat. I think that connection is at least part of the problem because that’s how I found the bad connection on my Jubilee. I hit the key and it shot sparks off the starter terminal but after cleaning it really good the slow cranking problem went away

That copper tone spray is great for heat displacement. Since your not planning your surfaces you need a filler sealer. Ill about guarantee your headgasket is gonna leak if not right away then in time.

Have you tried to just spin the flywheel by hand (without a crank) to start the tractor?

Scratch that, not synchronize, polarize is the proper term. Been 50 years since I had anything with a generator, had to put my thinking cap on. Here's a KZfaq video of the process used on a John Deere like yours. "How to polarize a generator - John Deere" Also, to test the generator you can hook a battery to both terminals, it should "motor" ie: run slow like an electric motor.

Check head and block for true flatness. They should be within .002 inch also Check for cracks the cracks might not be visible so Check with die penetrient method.

MR HUMBLE ACRES YOU GOT TO DANDY HELPERS MY SON HELPED ME PUT A STARTER ON A OLD JOHN DEERE TODAY A 1949 HE HAS A BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK HE WILL BE 46 JUST SEEMS LIKE WAS THAT HE WAS AGE OF YOUR SON YESTERDAY TIME DOES FLY I JUST TURNED 76 ENJOY YOUR FAMILY MINE IS SCATTERED IN THE WIND IVAN FROM ILLINOIS.

I watched this video to learn about the J D 2 lunger that I grew up listening to. Your video skills were great for that, I enjoyed and learned a lot. Please do me a favor, when drilling or using the wire wheel or sanding, put on some goggles. Your son was in a position to get debris in his eye which would be a shame. Thanks.

Good Video where did you get your parts from Thanks

You have good patience with your son

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If someone has replaced the gasket before and had it backward, that may be your leak. This is the second gasket replacement I have watched back to back tonight. Looks like tractors of age are harder to work on than older cars.

Cool video but when you moved the garage to your place. Is the best video. Have a great day 😀

BRAZE THE CRACKED BRACKET, IT HOLDS VERY GOOD IF YOU DO IT RIGHT!