super H

well, I think I found my major problem today with the super h , the machine shop did not put value seals on the head,smoked like crazy,pulled value cover today and the were no seals on values.price will go back up it this solves problem, thanks Rick

Valve seals were not stock on IH in that era. With new guides, or correctly specified valve stem to guide clearance. it should not smoke. I always put seals on valves I hope the seals do the job. Jim

Im 95% sure it will because every plug was had oil from down the stem, and the top of head had way too much oil once I took value cover off

Sounds like your valve guides are shot -- none of my Farmalls have valve seals.

A different issue is why the excess oil? the pushrod holes should drain it back as fast as it drips from the rocker shaft. If the rocker shaft was not put together correctly, that might make extra oil, but it just gets a pulse of oil every time the cam journal lines up with the hole in the cam bearing that feeds the top end measured amounts. Jim

What janicholson said! If you have way too much oil up there, fix that first. Your drain holes are plugged. Get rid of the extra oil and it can't leak down the valve stems.

Most likely you have excessive clearance on your rocker arm bushings. When they wear you get a whole lot of extra oil all over that top end. There is plenty of drain area along side of push rods but the extra oil will be slopping all over the tops of those rocker arms and onto the valves.

During the hay days of the 460 gas tractors out this way, we had a spanking new one useing oil like crazy. Before I had a chance to get it back in to check it out, IH sent out a service letter. If you are experiencing excessive oil consumption on the C-221 & C-263 engines, first off check the rocker arms. They had two suppliers of rockers and one of them had missed the step in production of pinching the oil trough on the top of the rocker arm. Therefore the valves were getting flooded with oil. I don't think IH was using any type of umbrella and or o-ring at the time. They changed back and forth so much on those it was hard to keep track of it. Anyway, I pulled the head as engine was badly carboned already. Pinched the rockers to specs and also installed PC valve seals. Dried her right up. I have found a lot of worn rocker arms and shafts on those 4 cyl engines over the years.

i have never put or had any valve stem seals on any h thru 450 tractors that i have had in the last forty years. no problems with smoking at startup.