[Farmall] Low water, high oil

[bsdunek at charter.net]

Dad's '48 M did the same thing for 40 years.  Even combining in 100deg weather, the temp gage would hardly get above the cold mark.  Then, just cause it was old, I put in a new thermostat.  After that the temp runs more in the center of the gage.  I don't think the original thermostat was ever any good.

One problem is, especially with light loads we run on our toys, is that the oil never warms up much.  This means it doesn't get rid of the water and acids that build up, which is detremental to the engine.

Bruce

---- Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net> wrote: 
> I believe my very first post to the antique tractor list, must have been
> eleven years ago, had a subject line of "low water, high oil."  I'd just
> bought my '53 Super M and noticed that no matter what I did with it, the
> temperature gauge barely ever cracked the C in Cold, let alone made it into
> Run.  Similarly, the oil pressure was always up near the top end, the needle
> not all the way to the right but pretty close.
> 
> So tonight I was touring the neighborhood on my new '50 M, just to hear it
> run and let it get warmed up, and of course the temperature gauge didn't
> move and the oil gauge was up near the top.  I ended up putting some
> cardboard in front of the radiator to make sure the gauge in fact works, and
> it eventually got up into the middle of Run.  I'll probably leave that there
> through the winter.
> 
> Damn but the M sounded good tonight.  I need to get out of the suburbs so I
> can do some real work with it.
> 
> Meanwhile, it kindly keeps coming up with things for me to mess with so I
> don't get too anxious to move just yet.  Tonight the front headlights
> decided not to shut off after I parked the tractor.  Rear one shuts off, and
> the dim/bright part works, but the front two just stayed on.  I disconnected
> the battery ground strap to shut them off, and will look into that some
> other time.  It's also dripping some oil from the right brake housing, the
> PTO doesn't work, there's no battery box, the bottom of the grill below that
> opening for the cultivator gang lever has been cut away... I guess I can
> make it through a few more months in town.
> 
> Dean Vinson
> Dayton, Ohio
> www.vinsonfarm.net
> 
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