Correction of yesterday's blog...

We'd all had one hell of a day by the end of yesterday (visit from a very recent ex-employee who upset everyone - nothing to do with tractors) and it was end of day when Graham discovered the irregularities in Laddie's block. Ivan came in late this morning (VERY unusual for him but he'd had to go and check something after the seriously high winds we had last night) and he came in saying,  'That clag inside the block, I think its where Gary burnt the liner out...' just as Graham had started honing and found that the lump had come off clean leaving a smooth surface behind so apologies to Laddie's owners if you read the blog last night. However I was talking to someone with years of Ferguson experience who said, (hearing about the sloppy oversize pistons AND the cracked head) that it was par for the course from where the engine had come from.

We're waiting for gaskets to arrive for Bob, Harald is now part dismantled; his immaculate bonnet safely stored upstairs. We are keeping a close eye open after finding traces of water mixed with the oil in the rocker cover but after finding that the breather banjo had only one washer instead of the two it should have had, that it is more like to be condensation.

Going to stop now to pack several parts up for postage. More later...

Just a reminder- Titanine (as mentioned in the Ferguson manual) is available almost only from us at £25 a tube instead of the £31 it is priced at normally for a few weeks only. Titanine is recommended for use on Fergusons where iron and alumminium meet as it prevents electrlytic action which can cause aluminium to decay to a powder!

If you would like some, send a cheque or a BACS payment or a Paypal payment including postage to wherever you are (Titanine with packing weighs 318g) and we'll post it off to you.

End of a satisfactory day today. Two engines with crankshafts in running smooth as silk. Ivan and Graham torqued them up ten pounds at a time evenly on each journal until the recommended pressure was reached. Both engines stopped at the point where the chaincase seals are fitted as they won't arrive until tomorrow and a carb. has arrived for servicing.

I'm going home now to connect up a temporary cold water tank in my bathroom which will allow water to flow to wherever it needs to go to while I install the pipework of a new immersion heater. Living with an uninsulated water heating system installed in the 1930's is really retro but really expensive!  The square 1930's copper tanks would be a super prop for a film but who wants to live in a film set...