WELDING A CRACKED BLOCK

I received a phone call from a chap, who lives locally to me, who reads this magazine and he had seen the article that I had written on stitching the engine block of the Diesel Fergie I was working on. The long and short of it was, could I do the same to his tractor? I said I’d better come and have a look, luckily; he lives only about six miles away from me.

Long wait

The tractor in question was a TE-D20 Ferguson and had cracked in the usual place, along the right-hand side of the block behind the carburettor. Apparently, a man had come to do the job some four years previously. After looking, he said he would be back on a warm day and hasn’t been seen since!