I have a soft spot for Massey Harris tractors as my brother and I started wheat farming with a second hand $400 Massey Harris 745
About 10 years ago I saw a Massey Harris 744D row crop model for sale in Gayndah so I bought it and got it delivered on a back load.
It started easily and drove around quite well .As I don't have enough sheds to fit all my tractors it sat outside where I covered all openings to the weather with tin cans and periodically being turned over with the crank handle.Last week when I went to turn it over it was seized which surprised me as it was turning over when last checked in January.I dropped all the flood damage work ,towed it to the shed and removed the injectors and put a mixture of ATF and thinners down the hole left it for a few days still no luck. A freind came around and we tried again,he on the crank handble and I had a 500mm shifter on the crank nut. Still no movement so I decided to take the head off
I am impressed with the build of this motor but some things intrigued me as in the photo below there were a mixture of Whitworth and AF nuts and some metric on the injectors
To be continued as time permits