Things we did as a matter of routine in commercial shops back when these old engines were in daily drivers are suddenly too "shade tree" to be acceptable to modern stovebolters. Farmer John who needed to get his broken-down truck running at harvest time really did some oddball stuff, and the thing went right back to work. I'm amazed any of them survived long enough to be the subject of all that obsessive-compulsive attention to detail!

One 235 engine I tore down had a piece of creosote fence post whittled down and driven into a cylinder instead of a piston. The connecting rod was torched off just above the crankshaft and clamped around a piece of leather to keep the oil pressure up. The engine had spun a rod bearing and got reassembled as a "5 cylinder". It ran a long time that way.
Jerry

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