Water damage?

Tractorcedric · Dec 8, 2022

Another poster talked about a Ferguson setting out in the BIG BLUE SHED. This Oliver 60 was stored there as well. I wonder if they tried to start it by pulling it. Not knowing number 4 was full of water. Rod bearing and crank look to be just fine. Both valves were closed. What do you think happened?

el6147 · Dec 8, 2022

water begins freezing on the surface , as it freezes it expands and if the crankshaft doesn't turn it will bend are break something.

I have a rod from an 88 with the same bend hanging on my shop wall.

rrlund · Dec 9, 2022

I bought a 66 that had the same issue. They towed it with water in a cylinder, a rod bent, then the piston came down so far that the oil ring expanded below the sleeve.

tomturkey · Dec 9, 2022

el6147, so do you think the expansion of the freezing water bent the rod???? I picked up a fence row tractor that had a cylinder full of water freeze and split the cylinder sleeve. Don't think it hurt the rod. Don't really know, everything in that engine was junk. gobble

Geo-TH,In · Dec 9, 2022

I want to scream when I see neglect and water damage.
Some people think it's OK to leave the old girls out in the elements.

Tractorcedric · Dec 9, 2022

Yea, I had an engine in a Massey that water got in number four and it split the block. In this one I think the sleeve will be ok. That is why I think it never froze.

Jeff NWOH · Dec 9, 2022

This one came out of a little 3 cyl Mitsubishi. It bent the rod enough that the bottom of the piston was hitting the crank at the bottom of its stroke. My guess is it had gas in the combustion chamber and hydrolocked. We didn't get any history on it. A new rod, gasket set, and carb kit and it runs good.

T.R.K. · Dec 9, 2022

Do you know the Olver's history from before it was stored outside?

The only bent rods I have seen like that were from when the cylinder was running and suddenly full of water. (Or if the engine went 'under' the water while running.)

Years ago a neighbor was going to restore his Cockshutt. (model 40, maybe) He took it to work and pressure washed it. Not realizing that the spray was going into the air cleaner and filling it up. He got on, hit the starter and it bent at least one rod and locked it up. He had to overhaul it before he painted it.

A Cousin back about 1980 had a nice early 70s Camaro. He ran a garage at his house. The road he lived on had a low-water bridge that flooded if there was a big rain. He loaned the car to a customer who tried to cross the flooded bridge with it.
Even though the water was less than a foot deep over the bridge, it sucked up water and bent a rod. I guess the water splashed up and went into the intake.

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