Super A Coolant in the oil - Update

A couple months ago I posted about my FIL's 1950 Super A that I had just finished going over to get running. As I was fooling around with the governor to try to get it to stop surging, I accidentally backed the governor bumper screw all the way out. While out I noticed a few drops of water on it. So I cracked the drain plug and out came several ounces of antifreeze. @$&##@!! So I figured I'd drop the pan and see if I could figure out where it was coming from. Then came harvest, hunting season, and the holidays and I never did get to it. Finally this morning I decided to tear into it. Opened the drain plug expecting to get some water out, but didn't see any. Drained the oil, definitely was milky like it had some moisture in it, but I've seen worse. Dropped the pan, and could find no sign of water anywhere. After sitting 3 months I'd think if it was going to leak it would have. Any ideas? When I pity the head on it last fall I had a heck of a time getting it torque up so that it would not pump oil out between the #2 & 3 cylinders where the oil goes up to the valves. I'm now wondering if I was also getting some water through in the block until I had things torqued to were they should be. Guess I'll let it sit with the pan off a while and watch for drips, but so far there is nothing obvious.
 
When you put a new head gasket on did you fire it up and run it till good and warm then re-torque the head?? If you didn't that is likely to be where the problem is/was. Me I'd re-torque the head fill it up with oil and run it and see how it goes
 
I did, several times. Took the head off, put it back on, torqued it, ran it, torqued it again, still kept getting oil pumping out. Started to think I had a bad head gasket...
 
My 1946 shop mule with c-113 engine started leaking oil at head gasket between no 2 and 3 cylinders where the oil goes up to the rocker arms.
This was about a year ago. I pulled the head off and had the valves reset and installed a new head gasket set. I noticed that the new head
gasket had a copper insert at the hole for the oil passage to the rocker arms. The old gasket did not have that copper insert. The new gasket
solved the oil leak problem.
 
All new oil that is I suppose. Not leaving the antifreeze contaminated stuff in there.
 
Before you start it, in the spring, drain off the Anti-Freee, with the bottom plug, then u can start it, and warm it up, and change the oil.
 
I would put the pan back on and bring it up snug to prevent dirt , moisture ,rodents, ect. from getting in , and just pull it back off when you look at it again, stumper
 
Ya hard to pull and oil pan with out draining the oil first but I have done it before but also had help doing so and it was not on a tractor either
 

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