[AT] Slight Oil Leak

LeRoy Price III leroy_price3 at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 29 12:14:22 PDT 2007


Its an Allis B.  Its leaking on the bottom edge of the manifold.  I pulled 
the oil sick and didn't see anything unusual there.  Could to much oil do 
this?


>From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
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>Subject: Re: [AT] Slight Oil Leak
>Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:42:26 -0400
>
>You might need to re-check the torque on your  head bolts.  Is there any
>sign of oil in the water or water in the oil?
>
>What brand of tractor/engine are we talking about?  It would make more 
>sense
>if you told us you were seeing water.  I can't figure out how oil would 
>leak
>out around the manifold bolts.  Those holes are usually blind taped into 
>the
>block or drilled through into a water jacket.  There may be some engines
>where they are drilled through into an oil passage.
>
>Charlie
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>From: "LeRoy Price III" <leroy_price3 at hotmail.com>
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>Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 1:16 PM
>Subject: [AT] Slight Oil Leak
>
>
> >
> > I have a tractor that was restored and was fine last year.  However, 
>when
> > starting it this year I noticed that oil started to leak slightly after
> > running 10 minutes or so from the bottom of the manifold.  I tighten 
>them
> > a
> > bit and it got a little better but now its also leaking along the head
> > where
> > it meets the block.  There may be 15 hours or so on the rebuild.  Whats
> > going on?
> >
> > LeRoy
> >
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