With fear and trepidation, I am considering to replace the head gasket on the diesel MF30 Industrial. It blows blue smoke when it starts - then settles down to a "tick-tick-tick". I have not drove it since seeing the blue smoke. I do not want to warp the head.
I have tried in vain to hire someone to come up and fix it - but no one wants to do it. Hauling round trip down to a shop will cost me about $400, so I'm thinking of doing it myself.
I've read about goop one can dump in the radiator, but intuitively, that seems to be delaying the inevitable... and I have no idea what the unintended consequences of dumping goop into the cooling system will do.
What do I need to know to make this happen? It seems like this is a simple task of removing the head, scrape off the old gasket, butter up the new gasket, put head back on and torque the bolts to the proper #.
I am a rookie mechanic - I replace wheel bearings, fan belts, alternators, starters and that sort of thing, but fixing engines is not my strong point. Unfortunately, if one has a tractor, this seems like a requirement - or have truckloads of greenbacks.
I have tried in vain to hire someone to come up and fix it - but no one wants to do it. Hauling round trip down to a shop will cost me about $400, so I'm thinking of doing it myself.
I've read about goop one can dump in the radiator, but intuitively, that seems to be delaying the inevitable... and I have no idea what the unintended consequences of dumping goop into the cooling system will do.
What do I need to know to make this happen? It seems like this is a simple task of removing the head, scrape off the old gasket, butter up the new gasket, put head back on and torque the bolts to the proper #.
I am a rookie mechanic - I replace wheel bearings, fan belts, alternators, starters and that sort of thing, but fixing engines is not my strong point. Unfortunately, if one has a tractor, this seems like a requirement - or have truckloads of greenbacks.
