What are you up to in the workshop?
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Out of interest What are the symptoms?
nashmach
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Alan McCullagh perhaps? :scratchhead:
She is Very hard to control on the road the steering wanders a lot
Win
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All the ball joints and track rod ends ok on the axle? A orbital unit will be a lot of money so you'd want to be sure there's a problem, it would be quite rare for one to give bother I would think. Seals on the piston of the ram??
johndeere6920s
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The rams give trouble on the tms anyway
mixed fleet
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Jd 3350 ,I have it 16 years blowing up through the rad/ expansion tank. Tried the simple stuff no joy ,took off the head, fairly obvious gasket failure.
Tractor was running fine, valves and valve seats look ok ,don't think it was overheating.
Is skimming the head compulsory or would a good cleaning and new gaskets suffice.
Keeping the tractor but workload would be around 300hrs/year .
Tractor was running fine, valves and valve seats look ok ,don't think it was overheating.
Is skimming the head compulsory or would a good cleaning and new gaskets suffice.
Keeping the tractor but workload would be around 300hrs/year .
jd-baz
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Head for pj in Lanesboro,skimming it wont put out the light and you will be guaranteed it will be right.
mixed fleet
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Ahh look lads, it's not the skimming itself that I'm avoiding ,I've been through the process too many times over the years.
But anytime I left a head in for skimming , it ended up with reconditioning of injectors and re-grinding of valves and valve seats injector nozzles etc-etc.
And if I'm honest, I can't say that I noticed much improvement.
But anytime I left a head in for skimming , it ended up with reconditioning of injectors and re-grinding of valves and valve seats injector nozzles etc-etc.
And if I'm honest, I can't say that I noticed much improvement.
johndeere6920s
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If your doing the work yourself and don't care if you have to take it off again then chance it
jd-baz
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Not just 50 series,most deeres to be honest,known as a stretch bolt.always replace bolts with gasket
I've changed both arms already and the ball joints are all good.I think it's a common problem in the t6000 series
bagenal
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I do remember it happening before and it cleared away after a bit of roadwork. It happened this time using the logsplitter running about 1000 rpm.
MF30
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Recipe for oil up the exhaust, if you could use most of its horsepower safely for a day it’d come right, the liners are probably glazed from gentle work. Problem is you need to keep reasonably brisk work to them to make sure it doesn’t come back. Diesel engines hate idling. If you really wanted to you could remove the pistons and machine then to take a second oil control ring, this can cost you up to 5% of your HP in friction.
Blizzard95
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Could you not get the head skimmed and leave all else as is
MF30
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I’d consider skimming important especially if the engine has overheated. A head gasket and labour would cost more than a skim. It’d be like fitting new brake pads to scored brake discs.
Probably just needs a good days work, those engines are usually dry but they do like to be worked under load. Have also seen it when a very high spec oil is used and it throws it up the exhaust. Once the correct grade is used it stops it! Head gasket failure is rare enough on these so I wouldn’t be rushing to do it.
diesel power
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The 3600 Ford used do the same on the log splitter. A bit of hard work used burn off the oil and clean it up. The engine was clapped out in it and has since been rebuilt.