F-I-T AND CLOONEY

The pony had been running about ten minutes, but had been started and run before for short one or two minute periods. The lower water pipe was just warm. The intake manifold on the pony got very hot, I noticed it because of the hot paint smell.

If this is the first time you have run the pony for an extended interval, it well could get the manifold pretty hot. Those exhaust passages are running in the mainfols, too, and it can hot enough to boil off wash water that settles into the bolt depressions. It will certainly smell a bit from any extraneous oil on or grease on the manifold or exhaust pipe, too.

You're '70' must be after 7034100 to have a thermostat. How hot are the pipes on that ? The thermostat is only around 100*-115* so it should open pretty early in the run.

If that brake isn't working, you're going to have problems getting the pinion to sit still. They're available from Deere, but a pain to install.

Frank

I've been thinking about this. Where on the manifold was the paint starting to bubble. If it was that hot near the distributor end, that's hot ! If it was on the exhaust output (trannmission) end, that might be normal. I'll start mine this morning anf monitor what pipes get warm first. I'm not certain which direction the coolant flows. Things can be a backward in those pony designs.

Frank