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Burnt IH584 I hauled home today

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So I have worked on this 584 a number of times over the years for a guy. A week or so ago he calls me and asked if I want it. He said it was hit by lightning who knows but from the head up it burnt. Hood burned all wires burned and all radiator hoses burned and hyd cooler hoses burned. I figured what the heck I would take off all the wires other then the 2 battery cables and rig a wire from the solenoid and see if it would spin over. At first it would not spin over but tried it a number of time and it spun over and started up. Of course it spit some coolant out and some hyd fluid and even a bit of diesel from the missing return lines that had also burned. So now I guess I need to replace a bunch of hoses and stuff and it should make a good back up tractor for my Oliver S88 . Even came with a front end loader so now I have a back up for my ford 841S loader tractor
 
Cobbled up wiring or Jewish Lightning sounds more probable to me. I find it hard to believe that lightning would strike a rubber tired tractor and set it on fire!!!
Loren
 
ACG, a few years ago some friends of mine left a MF 8140 tractor and 23 row Kinze planter parked in a field. Thunderstorm came up overnight and delayed planting for a day or two. When they went back to get it nothing electrical worked. Lightning had struck the marker arm on the planter. They fixed the planter and never had any trouble with it, but fought electrical Gremlins in the Massey until they finally traded it off. But like you said, it was probably a wiring problem. I can't remember hearing about one burning completely up from a strike.
 
Loren, in the late 70's we had just opened a new stretch of concrete highway. A guy was driving home in a thunderstorm and lightning struck his pickup - killed the engine and welded the clutch linkage together enough that the pedal would not go down. The lightning bolt jumped on down into the new pavement and followed a 40' rebar, popping the concrete above the bar. The driver said it was definitely lightning - he got a good close look at it, ha.

I was real proud of that nice new stretch of highway, and then they had to pour hot tar in that 40' stripe to seal it up.

I would have bet a big sodie that lightning wouldn't hit a rubber tired vehicle, but I guess if it can go through a mile of air it can do whatever it wants.
 
rich don't know for sure on 584 but was furnished a 695 at work about 12 years ago that had leaking injector return lines. IH was rather proud of a replacement return hose assembly. I found the hose was the same size as chain saw fuel line, got 2 or 3 feet of tygon hose from small engine shop and made my own lines. still going with no leaks last check. Leroy
 
I don't know, I had a project manager on his way home when we were working at the fish hatchery at the R.C. Byrd locks that had his company car a Ford Explorer hit while he was driving down the road. all 4 tires blew out and the motor locked up. Even blew 4 holes in the pavement. I took the company trailer and loaded it & brought it back to the job site. I was the one who had to do the investigation on it due to my being the project safety manager.
 
With this new windows 10 computer I am lucky at al to be able to get on line let alone post any pictures. Windows 10 is a data hog so it takes me forever to just look at posts now days
 
you say that radiator hoses burned and you started engine .... be very careful as the 584 has wet liners and if you run engine without coolant you will damage liner seals then coolant will leak into sump
 
I only run it for a few minutes at a TIME SO THE ENGIEN NEVER DOES GET WARMED UP. I know one can run and engine with out coolant but not for very long at a time ,
 
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