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Gasket issue or PPG DX 330 issue

TJ in KY

TJ in KY

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I have been trying to get the tractor ready to paint. The weather has been too hot and humid to paint, and I had to go out of town for a week and I came back to this. I have been doing some cleaning but I had not done the final cleaning yet but it looks like the gaskets are leaking. Could this be caused by the wax and grease remover I used (PPG DX 330) softening the gaskets and wicking the oil thru them?
I had put the tractor together without any sealant on the gaskets and I used it for about 10 hours and did not notice this weeping until I started doing the cleaning. Do I need to take it apart and put new gaskets on it?
anybody seen anything like this before
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Sorry for rotation issue, they showed fine on my computer but flipped when uploading This is on a Ford 8N that I wrote in about a few weeks ago, having problems getting someone to paint it. Going to try to attempt it myself.
 
Hard to tell ? Could be a leak or could be the chemical they treat the gasket paper with ? Depends on the type of gasket too. I have had several start eating the paint from the chemical in the gaskets before.
 
Gaskets will all "wick" oil like that in time. Gaskets swell from oil and seal better. What you need to do is right before you primer, use brakeclean with a straw and spray the surface and wipe with lint free cloth. Get primer/paint on as soon as possible. It works. You will still get some wicking after paint but it won't push paint off. ALL tractors leak/wick fluids. Nature of the beast. Any that don't probably never had fluid put in them as museums do
 
(quoted from post at 19:47:25 09/15/14) Gaskets will all "wick" oil like that in time. Gaskets swell from oil and seal better. What you need to do is right before you primer, use brakeclean with a straw and spray the surface and wipe with lint free cloth. Get primer/paint on as soon as possible. It works. You will still get some wicking after paint but it won't push paint off. ALL tractors leak/wick fluids. Nature of the beast. Any that don't probably never had fluid put in them as museums do
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The tractor sat for many months without that "wicking" going on, so I was thinking it related to the wax and grease remover I have been wiping it down with. I just cleaned it with brake fluid and I am going to let it set for a day or so and when I get ready to paint clean it again with brake cleaner and lint free rags. thanks for the tip.
 
Wax/grease remover will evaporate , just slower than brakeclean and laquer thinner. Being that the cast iron wasn't sandblasted it retains oils from all the years of use and it doesn't matter how much you clean/wire brush or other , it will still seep out after time and especially on bolt-up flanges where old gaskets held oil to the iron for years. Actually the gasket being compressed into the iron will actually "pull" oils out of cast that looked dry before. It's very porous.
 
B-manic and others. I have cleaned it with brake fluid twice and let it set for 24 hours and almost no "weeping" so I think doing that as a last step in cleaning process will take care of the problem. As a test I sprayed on come af the wax and grease remover on after cleaning with brake fluid and checked it this morning and saw some weeping. I guess it is just the way it is, and the brake cleaner right before painting will work.
Thanks to all for your responses
 
If you are cleaning with brake fluid as you say you are putting hydraulic fluid(OIL) back in the metal and gaskets, if you cant get a good cleaner use acetone or denatured alcohol, both are cheep, and work very well use a air tip with a suction hose and compressor after cleaning start the tractor and heat things up after it has reached temp, shut it down and re-torque everything. If wicking continues, then war everything then clean and prime and paint as as soon as you can.
 
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