I’m always happy to see a new dirt and pavement video

Love the way your style is progressing, I'd line bore the old rod and press an oilite bronze bushing in.
Babbit is no fun.

Just make sure the bush has an oil groove

If you’re in that deep and you’re going to keep the tractor, I would recommend rebuilding everything, heads, crankshaft bearing, piston bearing and rings, and then you know what you have

I would put new rings in it to.

Re- babbitt, machine and away ya go

Those dang chickens! 😂

Oh no John Deere lube on a case! It’s the end of days. 😆

The terminals on the coil, if mounted horizontally, should be in the 3 and 9 o’clock position. This is from the manufacturer.

I would source another good used rod and use that piston and I would bet it would be fine, the 2 cylinders are pretty tough.

Enjoy the long-form as well.  Hoping you find a racked wagon or a flatbed you can modify.  Like having the tractor, baler and haybine all in one video.  Hyped video.  Are you thinking about a hay fluffed or  tedder to help drying of the hay.

I would look into how much slop that worn piston has. Replace if needed. No such thing as worn rods. Id hole punch it and but a standard bronze bushing in. But since those are Babbitt rods it might be easier to buy the updated insert style.

Those rods should have a bushing for the waist pin. Looking at my parts book it doesn’t show babbitt waist pin bushing for a B. I’d throw a new waist pin and bushing in. Hone the cylinders and run it personally.
Part # for bushing
-b95999 is B413R
B96000- is B1777R

My 1950 b doesn’t have babbit bearings

The wobbly wrist pin was in the starboard cylinder?

Inhaling oil is a standard old iron process. That, and antifreeze....

Originly built in Waterloo,Iowa?

Blooming prairie. MN Grove chopper box.  600 dollars.  Extended sides with snow fence.  34 minutes away put on trailer.  600 and you get a wagon.

Those engines were built with a low compression ratio on purpose to burn at the time cheap tractor fuel(distillate) or Kerosene. The rods will be fine. They just need new wrist pin bushings. The babbits are not in real good shape but will probably be ok. Pull shims out until the crank will not rotate. Add a shim back one at a time until it will spin freely. There is nothing wrong with the scoring on that piston. Hone the cylinders, put new rings on the pistons and it will be good long after you are dead.

Did I see a crack in the driver side piston?

Hey if parts for john deere B. Let me know because I know a guy. Lead washers seal the head. When you retork , the the head helps seal it. You have to get new lead washers. If you have trouble finding stuff , let me know.