[AJD] Rust scales in block - Help???

[G.Dombaugh]

Sometimes a magnet with a long slender handle will work.  Harbor Freight 
sells these for tools and metal partial "fishing" magnets for about $2.
Garrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
To: "AT JD" <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 1:14 PM
Subject: [AJD] Rust scales in block - Help???


> When I pulled the Upper Water Pipe assembly off of my 1953 60 there was a
> bunch of long slivers of rust scale that dropped into the block cavity. 
> Must
> have broken loose off the inside of the pipe. These were maybe an inch 
> wide
> by two to three inches. I removed those that didn't fall all the way into
> the block cooling chamber. Now I'm concerned about those that did fall in.
> They are big enough to block some passages.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions on how to get these back out? Blow up through
> the head drain plug?  Try to grab them with a tool of some sort?  Soak the
> block cooling chamber in some kind of chemical to dissolve them? Turn the
> tractor upside down? :-)  I sure as heck don't want to take the head and
> block off of this thing just for this problem. The tractor runs too good. 
> I
> don't need to get into the guts of this thing.
>
> HelP????
>
> Dean A. Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA 98290
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> storeroom door
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