[AT] Re: It's a Cub!

[charlie hill]

Good point Mattias!

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mattias Kessén" <Mattias.kessen at telia.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Re: It's a Cub!


>> visual of the AC engine.  I'll try to think before I type next time.
>
> Wouldn't that be like thinking before talking, which is like wiping with 
> the toilet paper before dumping?
>
> The world would at least be less fun then.
>
> /Mattias
>
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> Från: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
> Till: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Skickat: den 7 juni 2005 16:30
> Ämne: Re: [AT] Re: It's a Cub!
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>
>> Hi Mike,  That's what I get for trying to talk about a #$%^&% CUB.  LOL. 
>> I
>> know,  I just wasn't thinking.  The discussion made me think of the 
>> problem
>> I had with oil pressure on an Allis engine and my mind switched over to a
>> visual of the AC engine.  I'll try to think before I type next time.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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>> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 9:15 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Re: It's a Cub!
>>
>>
>> > Uhm, Charlie - we are talking Cub here. The oil pressure gauge is 
>> > screwed
>> > into the cast iron filter housing, not the block. And getting the 
>> > lifter
>> > covers off is not a simple task (there is no "valve cover" on the flat
>> > head engine), as the manifold tends to be in the way. but you knew 
>> > that,
>> > right? :-)
>> >
>> > I think that someone's suggestion to remove/loosen the oil pressure 
>> > gauge
>> > and see if oil squirts out when you turn the engine over is a good 
>> > idea.
>> > Or temporarily replaced the gauge with a known good one. There is a 
>> > simple
>> > M/M adapter that screws into the back of a standard gauge and into the
>> > filter housing. I have always felt that, when acquiring a "new" 
>> > tractor,
>> > you should probably change the oil, drain the filter housing, and put 
>> > in a
>> > new filter - you don't know how long it has been since they were last
>> > changed.
>> >
>> > Mike
>> >
>> > charlie hill wrote:
>> >> One of my tractors lost oil presure a few years ago.  It turned out to 
>> >> be
>> >> just a clog of dirty dried oil in the little line from the block to 
>> >> the
>> >> guage.   You might be able to look in the oil filler hole and see if 
>> >> the
>> >> valve train is oiling.  If it is you have oil presure.  If you can't 
>> >> see
>> >> in the hole it is easy enough to pull the valve cover off.
>> >>
>> >> Charlie
>> >
>> > -- 
>> > Mike Sloane
>> > Allamuchy NJ
>> > mikesloane at verizon.net
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>> > Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought. -Graham Greene,
>> > novelist and journalist (1904-1991)
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