[AT] winter projects?

[john hall]

 Good luck with the water Charlie. As you may remember we fought it for 
almost a year with my 55 combine before we pulled the engine and put in new 
O-rings. When we encounter water leaks we pull the pan and lay a sheet of 
cardboard underneath and come back the next day and look for the drips. We 
also have a small manual tire pump we have adapted to NPT fittings. That way 
we can put just a dab of pressure on the system to speed up/verify the 
diagnosis.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] winter projects?


> Happy Thanksgiving!
>
> John it looks like my winter project will be engine work on my D-14.  I'm
> not sure where the problem is coming from yet but I've been getting water 
> in
> my oil.  LARGE volumes of water.  Either I've got an O-ring, head gasket,
> casting plug type problem or it's rain water getting in through the 
> muffler.
> The tractor is currently stored outside and both water events have come
> after big rains and after I changed mufflers on the tractor.  It's not
> getting in through the top of the exhaust pipe, that has a rain cap on it.
> I'm thinking it's somehow running in between the pipe and the manifold but 
> I
> don't see how that much can get it that way.  I didn't have antifreeze in
> the engine so I can't tell from that if it's water from the cooling 
> system.
> It's a recent problem (during and since the hurricane) and I haven't run 
> the
> tractor much since then.  At this point I'm guessing because I haven't had
> or taken time to figure it out.  What I'll do is put some dye in the 
> coolant
> water and see if that winds up in the oil pan.  If it does I know it's an
> engine problem.  If not and it's clear water next time I'll know it's rain
> water.  Meanwhile I've taken that muffler off and put something over the
> manifold to prevent rain water from getting in while I'm not running it. 
> I
> sure hope it's rain water.  That is an easy fix.
>
> Other than that I've got all sorts of projects to work on,  getting the
> garden plot ready,  replacing some bearings in my woods brush cutter gear
> box, etc. etc.   I'm not sure how much of it will get done right away.
>
> Charlie Hill
>