Ford 3000-oil coming out exhaust

DaveH561

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I have a Ford 3000 diesel, 1968 vintage and have developed a new problem. While running my tractor at idle for several hours to run an irrigation pump, I noticed oil was coming out of my vertical exhaust at the lowest connection. It was seeping very slowly down the exhaust manifold and onto the ground.
Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions, comments on what is causing it or how to repair it?
There doesn't appear to be any effect on the starting, running or performance so far.
Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
 
As the others have said diesels do not like to be run softly they like to be run hard and put away that way. Go run the heck out of it and it will stop doing that till you baby it again
 
(quoted from post at 10:55:15 12/30/16) Sure it's oil? Sounds like fuel. It's called wet stacking from a diesel idling too long.


Thanks to everybody for their help! I thought it was oil because it was jet black but to be honest, I didn't check it that closely.
I'll look at it better and I hope you are all right. I figured I was looking at a ring job or worse!
Thanks again!
 
(quoted from post at 09:40:42 12/30/16) I have a Ford 3000 diesel, 1968 vintage and have developed a new problem. While running my tractor at idle for several hours to run an irrigation pump, I noticed oil was coming out of my vertical exhaust at the lowest connection. It was seeping very slowly down the exhaust manifold and onto the ground.
Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions, comments on what is causing it or how to repair it?
There doesn't appear to be any effect on the starting, running or performance so far.
Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

Years ago I had a Perkins 248 cu. in. with low hours on it after being overhauled. It started spitting engine oil out of the exhaust. I was using what was supposed to be a high quality Gulf oil. As soon as I changed the engine oil to a different brand I never ever had that problem again.
 
It"s called "diesel slobbers" and it"s from operating at very low power output for long periods of time. the substance looks like dirty oil but it is really unburned fuel and carbon. Take your tractor out and work the snot out of it and it will clear up.
 

Thanks so much for your response.
We have a couple of days of rain expected here in Georgia, but as soon as it clears up I'll take it out a pull a few stumps. That works the heck out of it.
 

How about turning some dirt. I've got a couple of large areas that I could turn over or even put a boxblade on and drag some piles of dirt around for hours. Would that help?
 
Any thing that will make it work good and hard for a few hours will do it. Plowing a field or dragging a long drive way etc just as long it it is working it about as hard as it can handle
 
I am experiencing the same situation only with a Farmall B GAS!!!! Seems to be just one cylinder, starts good and runs good!!!! The tractor was brought to me missing starter, distributor, carburetor and generator!!! Finally got everything together and got it running but have this little trail of BLACK "liquid" seaping down the block from no 3 exhaust manifold port (between manifold and head)!!!
 

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