Farmall 560 diesel cooling system

ziemerj · Nov 6, 2013

When I start my 560 and let it run for about 5 minutes antifreeze begins to pour out of the overflow. I put a new radiator cap on thinking my cap was bad. When I started it to see if the cap fixed my problem coolant was coming out of the overflow tube when I was cranking the engine over before it even started. What should I try next?

mazemeister · Nov 6, 2013

new head gasket?

ziemerj · Nov 6, 2013

I had another tractor do the same thing and that turned out to be the head gasket to. I was hoping the cap was going to fix it but my fear was it was the head gasket.

rustred · Nov 6, 2013

crack in head most likely or gasket. pull the head off.

tractordanp · Nov 7, 2013

My IH 460 diesel would push out about a gallon and a half when first start then it seem to be fine I finally bit the bullet and pulled head head gasket seemed to almost rotten cleaned up block and head installed new head gasket and all is good now. But I have seen on our cat 966 loader at work the same problem and that was just pluged cores in radiator we did major flush it helped but ended up replacing radiator and that one all better now
So I would get some radiator flush from auto parts store or even walmart has it and try that first
Good luck
Ps I put off pulling head on my 460 for a year afraid of what I would find and I got lucky head and block looked as if just came from machine shop

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