Adjusting valves

Farmalltwo · May 12, 2016

Couple questions- farmall b 1939 adjusting valves
Adjust hot or cold???
Hot Clarence =????
Cold Clarence =?????
Thanks!!!

D beatty · May 12, 2016

Go down the left side of this site to (Tune-Up Specs)and click on Farmall- International.

gene bender · May 12, 2016

14thous hot or cold realy wont make a difference unless you have a guage that fasdtens on the tappets and you adjust while running which would be the only way to be hi-teck but not neccessary for that engine so just set with feeler guage you will never now the difference whether you set them hot or cold.

Geo-TH,In · May 12, 2016

Farmalltwo,
Can't help you with the valve clearance. However I did have to replace the head gasket on my farmall c, 1950. I have no clue why, but I retorqued the head bolts 5 times. I would run the tractor and then checked the torque, each time the bolts were about 10-20 out. Each time I had to remove the valve train. So when I reset the valves the engine was warm. geo.

wilson ind · May 12, 2016

Get rid of that farmall. Buy another terramite and install a finish mower.

Mike M · May 12, 2016

I wonder if your bolts are stretching ?

D beatty · May 12, 2016

Farmalltwo set valves hot. Geo-TH,In I have a Farmall B that has been in family since new with the same engine as a C. It has been overhauled three times and maybe six valve jobs in it life time and never had to retorque head. If you had to retorque that may times I would have got new studs and nuts.

rustred · May 12, 2016

spec's are are for warm or hot engines. if set cold, metal grows when hot so that means you will have less clearance. when set cold you usually add .001 .002 to the spec depending on the spec clearance. also you have to have a feel for the go- no go guage. as two inexperienced people setting valves on the same unit can still mean the settings are different.

Geo-TH,In · May 12, 2016

Dang smart phone changes things on me. I have a farmall C, never seen a two engine. Smart phone sometimes guesses what I going to write and I get in trouble.

Geo-TH,In · May 12, 2016

Bill the Farmall is priceless, was my mother's. Engine was rebuilt. I think the reason I had to retorque so many times is new sleeves were installed, which were not flush with the block. Boys at case I H, said that was normal. I think I had to mash the new head gasket into the sleeves. All works fine.

What would I do with a third Terramite?

Anonymous-0 · May 12, 2016

(quoted from post at 04:27:35 05/12/16) Couple questions- farmall b 1939 adjusting valves
Adjust hot or cold???
Hot Clarence =????
Cold Clarence =?????
Thanks!!!

Is Clarence happier when he is hot or when he is cold????

Farmalltwo · May 16, 2016

(quoted from post at 23:27:35 05/11/16) Couple questions- farmall b 1939 adjusting valves
Adjust hot or cold???
Hot Clarence =????
Cold Clarence =?????
Thanks!!!

Thanks for the help!
Adjusted valves this weekend
Runs great!
Push rod for #1 exhaust was leaning out away from
Rocker! Replaced it,and adjusted valves, runs like new!!!

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