[AT] stuck good on a WD 45 engine question!

[JKW]

Maybe the source of the head gasket gave you the wrong gasket?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Wilkens" <jwilkens at eoni.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 4:55 PM
Subject: [AT] stuck good on a WD 45 engine question!


> My neighbor an I are super expert tractor mechanics :)  but we are 
> stumped and need ATIS help!    Got a WD 45 with even compression at 
> 119 lbs and good oil rings....no blowby problem and a fresh valve job 
> (superior quality of course), and a good tight head gasket.    The 
> problem with this tractor is that it blows enough oil out the exhaust 
> pipe to make your face greasy if your're facing a headwind.  It all 
> seems to be coming from cylinders 3 and 4...which are fouling 
> plugs.  We put valve stem seals on the exhaust valves, but still it 
> blows oil and smoke out the exhaust pipe.  It seems to me that the 
> only place for engine oil to get into the exhaust system would be 
> within the head somewhere.  Question is....Where or How?   We are 
> just now going out to plug the oil feed pipe to the head and run it 
> awhile without oil feed to the rocker arm to see if the smoking 
> problem changes any.....but even if it does....where would be the 
> problem.....a crack somewhere in the head?  It is blowing too much 
> oil for a hairline crack we maybe can't see.     ANY IDEAS WELCOME 
> PLEASE!     John W.
> 
>                    In the wide-open spaces of NE Oregon
>   
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