I bought a Ford 4000 back in the late 1970s. It was a red one with a gas engine, same as a 961 in looks but blue.. I used it for over a year and it ran fine an had pretty good oil pressure. Heck I ground ear corn with it just about every week.
Well things got better and I traded it in on a new IH 1086. A local fellow bought it off the dealer.
Several years after that he brought it to me to overhaul the motor. It was running but using oil. When we dropped the oil pan we found a piece of leather belting under the number two rod cap. It had a insert in the top half but just the leather on the bottom. The crankshaft was OK but w did put in all new connecting rods.
So it had ran that way for 6-7 years that we know of. I never could figure out why they had done that.
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