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Hey Bill,
My E38 has a fuel pump, I'll try and post a pic in the next few days.

Hi Bill,
Too bad about the block, have you considered Vee-ing out the cracks with a die grinder and refilling them with JB Weld? That stuff works great!
Jon

Hi All,
I am slowly going thru my E38 and spotted this post a month or so ago. Servicing the magnetto was on the to do list so i sent it to Tom, He was responsive, knowledgeable came across as fair and reasonable. I just Got my magnetto back, it looks great, there was a big bag of parts that were replaced and he even made me new spark plug wires, I couldn't be happier.
Thanks Tom! (Magnetto Guy)

Got the springs, hangars and chassis pan back on the machine, that was a bit of a job.

Thanks Blake,
I'm sure there are other E-38's out there that have the same problem, the springs are pretty thin and the "slipper tabs" rub on cast steel spring stops.
I finished the springs up late yesterday afternoon, here's a few pics....

Hi,
The leaf springs on my E-38 are no longer serviceable,all the leafs are rusted thin and at least a couple of them are broken. I have a few sets of old Chevy truck springs that are the same width but somewhat thicker, I'm in the process of re-arching them into a set of E-38 replacement springs, I hope it all works out.
I got the Idea by watching a couple of "Re-Arching leaf spring" videos on you tube and I bought new center bolts on E bay. I used a Hossfeld bender to increase the arch on the springs, it seems to work well for this.
Here are a few progress pictures....

Great looking collection you have there Bill.

I've found a little time to work on my tractor, the motor cant go back in until I address to worn out suspension and heavily rusted belly/chassis pan. It took some doing to get the chassis pan out, now i have to deal with the can full of worms I've opened up.

Well i Finally got my motor mostly back together. After getting it un stuck it really just needed a valve job, new exhaust valves,  and a set of stock rings. The bearings were all in great shape too, we even had to re use all the brass shims.

Thanks Bill,
It was a challenging part to build and took some effort to compensate for the pulling, distortion and shrinkage caused by so many hot welds on such a small part, not an easy project. I hope the rest of the tractor isn't as much of a PITA.   

It took a while to wrap this thing up, I had to file out all 4 attachment holes due to pulling and distortion from all the welding. The new manifold bolted up easily to the old one but took a little effort to get it to bolt up to the engine block. I used a big stationary belt sander to flatten out the mounting flange, it had a little curvature to it after all the welding.
The last thing I did was to blast it and paint it with high temp flat black. I'm sure it will burn off but a least it will look good while I assemble the motor.

Thanks for the compliments guys,building this thing has been a real challenge. I had a few hours today to work on it and had just enough time to put the exhaust elbows on for cylinders 1 and 4. At this point it looks pretty much done, but there's a lot of clean up and detail work still, but it's getting there.

Hey Guys,
I had a chance to make some progress on the manifold.

I welded it all together, it stayed nice and flat, here;s a couple of progress pics....

Thanks for the encouragement Blake,
Please don't jinx me by talking about selling them, I haven't gotten thru this one yet . Cutting and fitting all the pieces is one thing. welding it all together without warping the heck out of it is a whole different story, this thing still has a long way to go.