Jeff Wenner
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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.