Anonymous-0
Well-known Member
A few weeks ago The head gasket blew out between cylinders on my MF with the perkins diesel. This happened right in the middle of my mowing season. I was rushing around making good progress replacing the gasket. I put a rag over the intake to keep dirt out. Got time to start it, and it started good, and sounded ok. After it warmed up I gave it more throttle, and it started to miss real bad. Then is when I realized I failed to remove the rag over the intake. It sucked that rag right into no 1 cylinder, and held the intake valve open causing the miss. I didn't feel good about that all. I just about started to remove the head, but thought if any damage was done it had already happened. I ran the engine at a fast speed and saw the rag come out in small pieces. It ran good after that. Nothing seams to be wrong with the engine since then, I probably have 40 hours on it by now. I wouln't be doing that again soon. Stan