[AT] Freezing Tractors

[Bruce Fallon]

I ran it for a few minutes before draining the water and the oil is still 
black not milky and the water drained was just dirty not oily so I think I 
am fine.

The MM U I purchased at the charity auction a few years back did have a plug 
in the rear cylinder head pushed out when I got it, of course the one 
between the heads.  I was able to reseat it with a wonder bar (curved wide 
wrecking bar)  driven between the heads and pushed it right back into place. 
Otherwise I would have had to pull the head to reseat the plug.  I had this 
happen once after I got it running and was able to reseat it again.

The fountain in the yard of course is a piece of artwork now.


Bruce Fallon
Langley,WA 98260
bfallon at whidbey.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Freezing Tractors


Bruce you might want to pull the valve cover and make sure it didn't push
one of the "freeze" plugs out.  My neighbor let his D-14 (now mine) freeze
up a few years back and it pushed the plug between Cyl 3 & 4 out.  No other
damage but it took me a long time to get the gunk (mixed oil and water) out
of the block and oil pan for him before I finally bought it.

Charlie