[AT] High oil pressure a bad thing?

[John Hall]

Karl is still on the IH list. I talked him into counting his Farmalls a 
while back, He has quite a collection!

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herbert Metz" <metz-h.b at mindspring.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] High oil pressure a bad thing?


>
> Several years ago, Karl Olmstead (Nevada?) stated his method of cleaning
> old engines and transmissions was to add kerosene in both, and put tractor
> in gear and pull it around in his yard for ten minutes.    I had the
> impression that some of the old oil was drained before adding the 
> kerosene.
> One of the things he did was pull the sparkplugs.    Also, this was on
> tractors that were new to Karl.    One of his concerns was water in
> transmission.   Karl was the guy who told us his plans of going somewhere
> in CA on a long weekend with intent of starting an old Cat (?) engine, he
> recently acquired, that the local Cat mechanic had not been able to get
> going.  And he did it, then sold the Cat to a local contractor.  After 
> Karl
> left this list, someone said he went to the IHC or JD list (?).    I no
> longer have his address; computer crash.
> Karls posts were informative and interesting.
> Herb
>