My Kohler K321 14HP rebuild thread

[DavidBarkey]

I hit a bit of a snag, I don't remember how the head nuts and washers are ordered. Looking through the various manuals has not made it any clearer. Does have any pointers?

No sure I am understanding the question . BUt here goes . The washer goes on first with the domed side up / convex side down and the the nut on next . The nut being the little metal hex thing with threaded hole in it , not you .
I hope that helps bud.
Dave

[Eugen]

Haha, good one Dave! Let's see. There are 7 studs and two bolts on the head.

And some number of these items:
2 x bolts
5 x tubes
9 x 1/8 in washers
7 x spring washers
7 x nuts

I think I'm missing two of those tubes. Also not sure if those tubes go beneath or above the 1/8" washers.


This is how it would make sense to me.

[Eugen]

Parts manual comes to the rescue.

But clearly I don't have all the nuts, washers, and distancers that were there originally.

Oh well...

[Spike188]

manuals/More/Model-644-646-p33.pdf on page 15- #4 is the shroud that sits on top of

standoff spacer #5.

So at the very minimum it would be spacer #5, then the shroud,

add a washer, then the lock washer and nut.

On old shrouds and tins vibration damage around holes can cause a lot of stress cracks. Adding washers as backups helps spread the stresses out and adds life to the tins.

Spike.

[DavidBarkey]

I have bins of bits and pieces . what are you missing ?

Dave

[Eugen]

Lucky me @DavidBarkey set me up with the missing hardware.

Closer and closer to throw this thing onto a machine and see if I screwed up or not

[DavidBarkey]

Any time bud , and thanks for looking at my phone-computer issue .
Dave

[Eugen]

There was this engine shroud I couldn't so I has so many other things to deal with, after searching for it thrice I gave up and everything went on the back burner.

Guess what, I wasn't looking for it today and we just about bumped into each other.

This gave me a little oomph and painted a couple of other parts. I knowledge it's not the right colour and I pleased guilty. But it was the only colour good quality email in had on hand. Sorry!


Hoping to get this 244 in the tent and throw the rebuild engine in it before the snow falls.

[Eugen]

Another inch closer to the finish line.

[Eugen]

Minor setback. Couldn't find the original spark plug so that's not a problem me thinks, I got the right type may as well put on a new one.

Ahm! What gives?! Look at that big gap between the 14mm thread spark plug and the threads in the head. So the standard plug doesn't work. Go look for the thread repair kit I tell myself, and the son of a gun is nowhere to be found. Fine, I get to go shopping then, which I hate right? Shopping for tools and parts I just hate . Not!

Here we go again, tap.

JB weld the outside thread and screw the insert in, then use the swage tool to expand the knurled top of the insert.


Happy insert, happy spark plug.