[AT] I got lucky

Bruce Fallon bfallon at whidbey.com
Sat Jan 22 17:41:45 PST 2005


We have a spot in our community road which is soft and with the freezing 
weather we had 2 weeks ago the ground froze trapping the water below. When 
it thawed the first of this week it made a real mess and difficult for some 
to go through as it is an uphill grade also.  Today I fired up the Huber and 
graded out the soft oozy stuff and had a guy bring in 3 yds of crushed rock 
spread and graded it into it.
I went to fire up the Moline as it was attached to the 1 ton roller to roll 
the rock down, and when it fired I had water spraying everywhere by the fan. 
Seems I didn't have as much antifreeze in it as I thought. It pushed out 2 
freeze plugs.
 I have been very lucky with this thing.  This is the one I bought on the 
Charity auction in 1998.  It had a freeze plug out then between the cylinder 
heads which I was able to reseat with a wonder bar by wedging it in between 
heads.
This time it was block plugs one in the front set of jugs behind the fan and 
the other between the jugs.  I was able to reseat the one between the jugs 
with the wonder bar just like before and the one behind the fan I was able 
to reseat  with a bar also. I filled it with water and ran it for about 45 
minutes with no leaks. No water in the oil and no leaks.  Sometimes you get 
lucky.

Bruce Fallon
Freeland WA. 98249
bfallon at whidbey.com 



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