D19 Diesel engine work

This thread is awesome now where can we find the parts to fix this engine? will decking and recutting the block fix this problem for good? I won't mind dropping the cash if it fixes it for good.

Don I appreciate you getting back to me on this head and it was an interesting read that was posted. Never worked on one of these engines but I am familiar with the 1693 Cat which were a PC engine and I just loved the sound of that old motor. But they were a smoker, especially if let set and idle a while. I was wondering if some of the cam builders would build a cam for this engine? I know that if you want some kind of a special cam grind that they will do it for you. I know that Egge out of California will build special and out of stock pistons for automotive application and I just wonder if they would build these pistons? I don't think that making a liner would be much of a problem. And probably truth be known wouldn't cost a whole lot more than going down to Agco if they were available. I've got to go back up and look at the deck and see if there is enough room to make that lip a few 1000's deeper a wider. Maybe a solution? Leon R  Cmo

I though when you deck it and cut a counter bore you made that lip bigger by machine by .020 or something so the sleeve has a good sized lip to sit on, all this talk makes me start looking at a 4bt or the 301 engine swap cause its prob about 5-8 grand to rebuild this engine depending on where you live and for that I could find a pretty sweet perkins or kubota and get and adaptor plate made up. 

alright ok well I'm no machinist but could a guy re bore the block and get a set of pistons made for that? I just got this tractor free and wanna fix it up to use a 3 bottom low, discern and front loader on 400 acres i just got, I would buy another tractor one day but for 10K you can't get much and I would rather just make this work. I see guys maybe do a 301 engine in there, just no point in dropping money on sleeve, pistons and all the machining if you cannot even use the thing i might  aswell run it till it blows!, sorry I'm not trying to hi jack the thread, this is the best info I've found in 40 hrs digging on the net. Thank you!!

Just a question, Could those sleeves be silver soldered in the top deck? 

I think most AC people who buy d19's do it for sentimental or collector value not for a working tractor.  There are also those of us who dont realize what we got into until we already have it.

I have read the 301 came in the 185 and it was around the same HP as the 262, i think it was 72 hp or something, or the 200 engine out of a f2 gleaner combine for swaps other then the 262. Im gonna use this tractor for minor discing and blowing and road building, tree removal on my 400 acres. Id rather do all the work on an engine swap then rebuild this engine if it cannot be worked, I've searched the internet high and low and found no build threads on this or really any info, does anyone know about engine swaps. rebuilding the 262 would be fine if it fixed it but i don't have a tractor to not use it.

Don it looks and sounds great; can't wait to get it home so I can mow with it.

Don once again you did an amazing job. Like others I love reading these threads I always learn something new.

Thanks guys. It takes a lot of time to over haul a Buba 230/262 engine and make it right, they are a lot like building a race engine, "that will work" is not they way to it, buckets of money and days of labor check and recheck. I like rebuilding them and they seam to find there way to the shop for help.lol