Zeus103363
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Hi. I recently got a fairly new lawn mower. It has a Kubota 722E Diesel engine, which I want to use for a future build...a log splitter! Anyway. Took the engine off the mower, which by the way is complete, its a kubota tc1860. The engine was full of some gray sludge! Way over full! I took the head off expecting to find a blown head gasket. All looks well. No visible cracks in either the head or the block. We took the front timming cover off and found that a freeze plug had come out and wedged behind a timming gear. doesn't look like it hurt anything, but what a mess! Looking her over, there isn't any bad scoring in the cylinder walls. i filled them up with oil and they didn't leak. everything turns freely. I have cleaned as much as possible. Should I completely dissemble clean and rebuild, or just replace the freeze plug clean what I can and button her back up and hope for the best? I am looking at about $250 for gaskets, and another $300 for new bearings and piston rings. and probably $100 for machine shop work and look over. If i put her back in the mower (which is actually a very nice mower) I could easly spend another $400 on belts blades and fluids. What do you all thjnk?
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