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1954 Ford 850 Tractor w/blown Head Gasket (at the very least)

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DavidA:
Glad to see you anticipated what would happen.

Full flow filters are much better than by-pass filters. Just don't forget to change them.

Dave. :thumbup:

vtsteam:
It's drizzling out today so I haven't done any work yet on the tractor. Maybe I can get the old muffler and headpipe off of the old manifold working indoors. Bolts are badly rusted and I might have to cut them off.

One nice thing about the Ford's oil pan that I forgot to mention yesterday, is that big 3" plug sits at the bottom of a round sump (depression) in the oil pan, and the sump is the diameter of the plug. So when you remove the plug you basically remove the bottom of the entire sump. And also since the plug is hollow, most buildup of hard sediment is going to be trapped there. And even that has it's own tiny sump, in  the form of the hollow square plug boss that I had so much trouble turning yesterday. When you remove that big drain plug, you can see in it what's in the pan.

Well there was no hard sediment buildup, even in the square hole of the plug. Just old black thickened oil. And that's what I mainly wanted to clear out of the system with the kerosene flush.

In the fifties many tractor engines were routinely cleaned by replacing the oil in the pan with kerosene, and actually starting the engine, running briefly to distribute the kerosene,  shutting down, and then draining the dirty kerosene out.

awemawson:
No sign of the missing valve cap in there when you drained the old oil?

Interestingly, what you (stateside) call the oil pan, we here in the UK call the sump, so it's seems odd (but understandable) to hear you talk of a sump in the oil pan !

vtsteam:
Andrew, I haven't poured out the oil from the collection pan yet, so don't know if anything is in there. It's continuing to rain, and a bit chilly today.

I knew that you all called a sump, what we would call an oil pan, but couldn't figure out how to describe what was there any other way. Here a sump is a low point for collection in any fluid container. I didn't have a name for it otherwise! Recess, maybe? What would you call it your side of the pond? Is there a proper term?

(I figured you guys would get what I meant if I put "depression" in parenthesis.)

The sump's sump also had a sump in the lump on the plug.

Say that three times fast, if you can!  :)

awemawson:
I chased the bug around the tree .... say that fast  :ddb:

In general terms a sump over here is also a low point to collect liquids. So in one house that I owned years ago I had a sump in the cellar with a submersible pump to keep the water table low.

Hope your weather clears up soon, I want to see that engine run  :ddb:

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