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This probably isn’t new to anyone but I thought I would share a handy tool for removing the cylinder head on an O&R. A good old drag link socket makes a perfect tool for this. I have this one that is about 3/16” thick and 1 1/16” wide.

Top coat of paint on. Agricultural enamel. IH red. Brush painted. Now all I have to do is wait for it to dry.

When I was looking through the early service information (1961) a few days ago, I noticed something very similar for unscrewing the cylinder, for some reason the socket is described as being 3/32" thick, which is clearly wrong (tool #11 in list). The later manual mentions a different tool, which is very easy to make, I find a using a crescent wrench (adjustable spanner) is better than the flimsy bar (or ruining a screwdriver as mentioned in the manual) and the engine can be held in a vice using soft jaws (to prevent marking the crankcase). David

That’s smartened it up Norm

Exhaust done

Oh, remember now that you reminded me. Just saw another one of those covers yesterday but not sure where or what it came from. Can't remember! LoL Let me take a look around to see if there's another forgotten box or three out there and you can have it if it doesn't go to anything. Just remind me to send it or I'll forget.

Had a similar experience recently, maybe not quite as bad but enough I had to finally walk away from it... that thing looks really really awesome!

My wife and I watched our church service online yesterday morning at 9am I was then going to go putter with my O&R but things started to unfold really fast, we had an idea that there was some victims but not expecting what was to come . By 2:30 pm the shooter was shot and killed by RCMP and we started to here some online chatter of the extent of his 14hrs of terror. We went to bed last night knowing that by the morning we would know friends or family connected to this tragedy. I was correct, we did. Still possible not all victims found yet. Give your loved ones an extra hug today. 😢😞