Farmall 560 Diesel valve cover??

Can I remove the intake manifold and sneak the valve cover out to the side, or do I have to raise/remove the fuel tank, with all the associated BS, plus 25 gallons of fuel?

This tractor went swimming last fall during tropical storm Irene. When the water went down, I drained it, pulled the glow plugs and poured oil in the cylinders. It turns over fine, but I want to flush it out as much as possible before I refill everything and run it.

My M that went in deeper was finished last fall, and used all summer for haying. I think it is down on power, or maybe I am just spoiled from having the 560 for the previous years.

I probably should have done the 560 first, but the M was much worse off, and actually took a little jumping on the crank to make it tun over the first time. I was afraid it would really seize up if I didn't get right at it. Then winter came and my shop cooled right off, and there was snow plowing and then some re-modeling, both at my house and my sister's. Then there was sugaring and spring's work and all of a sudden it was haying and I was stuck with the M.

Besides the tractors, my whole spread of hay equipment got washed, it was a lot easier to fix up though, pressure washed it, greased the heck out of everything, and repacked the wheel bearings. I anticipated trouble with some sealed bearings, but none so far. The only real casualty was the electric motor for adjusting the belt speed on the bale thrower on my NH 269 baler. It worked all right in the weeks after the flood, but rusted tight and seized up over the winter.

Yes, you can remove the valve cover by removing the intake manifold. You have to either split the tractor or raise the fuel tank to remove the head. Good Luck.

The back bolts stay with the cover. Make sure you put them back in when you replace it.

definitly dont need to split tractor to remove head, unless u want the extra work.

Don't need to split to remove head, but because that baffle under the fuel tank is spot welded on you better raise that tank up. I pulled lots of heads on the gas tractors with the bolted on baffle with out raising fuel tank but even with that light head it is a two man job to put it back on unless you have a tilt attachment on a cherry picker. And yes, the valve cover comes off after removing intake manifold.

I can split a 560 faster than taking the time to take the four bolts out of the fuel tank to lift it. Just my experience.

When I adjust the valves on my 560D I can remove the top valve cover without removing the manifold or gas tank unless their is another cover between the manifolds and engine block. Also the last time I changed headgasket I think I only lossen the fuel tank and supported it with a 2X4. Armand