Don’t lose your head

YOU CAN DO IT

DIFFICULTY RATING

It must be at least three or four years since the engine rebuild of my 1960 Massey Ferguson 35. Regular readers may recall the wrecked cylinder block, due to the loss of the crankshaft thrust washers – causing the crankshaft to carve into the cylinder block.

At the time I acquired a second-hand engine, which was in need of a replacement cylinder head due to corrosion of the combustion chambers. We