Need the (Farmall) A Team! Cranking Issue...

Posted by dunniteowl on April 02, 2007 at 05:26:38 from (207.69.137.13):

Hey folks, haven"t been to the site in about 2 or so years *(which means the tractor had been running pretty good, or the problems that came up were solveable...)

I short while back Betty *("44 A model) started spitting black oil out of the exhaust stack and chuffing real bad. I managed to get her back to the house and checked out a few things.

No real bad leaks anywhere. Didn"t look like water was in the oil. Compression read about 85-90 pounds in all 4 cylinders. The only thing I had done different up to then was I added some oil, which due to a mixup on bottle color, the weather peeling off my labels and me being an idiot, it"s entirely possible I poured a quart of tranny fluid (Dexron II) into the crankcase instead of good ol" 30wt.

So, I drained the oil and replaced all of it. Still spitting black oil and chuffing. She wouldn"t stay running and got hot real fast. I thought, "Well, that does it, I either blew a gasket in the head or I managed to really break her this time..."

I pulled the cylinder head and there was a bubbled area (a metal gasket, mind you) between cylinders 2-3 and obvious signs of leakages past the head gasket into cylinder 2. I got a new gasket and put it on. Compression checks showed a poor amount of 15 pounds in cyl 2 and the rest were running about 75-80 pounds. Oops, it turns out I didn"t seal the gasket *(new ones need it) and I went back and redid all that. Now it comes time to check compression and I can"t get Betty to crank.

The battery is good, this I know for sure. I was able to crank before all this with no problems, so I am pretty sure the crankshaft is still alright (crosses fingers.) My guess, is that, during the process of replacing the gasket and pulling the head, that I somehow managed to get water into the crankshaft area and now it has lightly rusted stuck in there.

I tried putting it in gear and giving her my all, but all I got from that was exercise. She rolls in neutral. I figured, I"d place the tow hitch on my van and hook the chains I use for pulling tree branches (pecan branches are basically small trees) onto the drawbar, connected to the van"s tow hitch and pull her backwards a few feet with the transmission in reverse to "break it loose."

Tell me, one and all, does this sound like a good idea? Does anyone out there know if I am in really deep trouble with my situation and what it really might be? Have I done decently well under the circumstances so far?

I tried using something on the flywheel to turn it (like I had done to set the timing so long ago) and I couldn"t get it to budge. Then again, I don"t really have anything made to do this and getting something on the flywheel is next to impossible. I couldn"t use the front cranking handle slot as I don"t have the crank handle and couldn"t get anything that would seat in there in order to try that out.

I do require the (Farmall) A Team on this one folks! I really appreciate any tips, advice, warnings and help I can get on this one.

regards,
dunniteowl

Replies:

• Re: Need the (Farmall) A Team! Cranking Issue... dunniteowl 21:27:23 04/02/07 (0)
• Re: Need the (Farmall) A Team! Cranking Issue... Janicholson 07:45:47 04/02/07 (0)
• Re: Need the (Farmall) A Team! Cranking Issue... El Toro 06:56:07 04/02/07 (0)
• Re: Need the (Farmall) A Team! Cranking Issue... Roger Mills 06:27:14 04/02/07 (0)
• Re: Need the (Farmall) A Team! Cranking Issue... Sam#3 05:54:50 04/02/07 (0)
• Re: Need the (Farmall) A Team! Cranking Issue... Red Dave 05:48:52 04/02/07 (1)
  • Another Path A. Bohemian 08:30:02 04/02/07 (0)

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