radiator...

so my radiator is all clogged up, tractor is overheating...

its just a ugly workhorse tractor, the hood is all full of tinworm rot anyways.... the tractor has a front loader 'jungle gym' all around it, so taking the hood off is not looking to be a easy project. I'm thinking of just cutting the front of hte hood away so I can get the old radiator out. is that just /too/ ghetto?

this picture is from 2013 after a cheesy rattlecan spray job, all of which has faded and looks about as ugly as it did before.

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Might be able to remove the grill, remove lower dog leg bolts, remove hood to dash bolts, and probably have to
disconnect fuel line, raise up the front of hood, then see if you can get the radiator out the front. Good luck.
 

I'll have to disconnect the front PTO shaft to the front loader hydraulic pump, too, that or cut a slot in the bottom of the front so the shaft can slide out...
 
I just replaced the head gasket on my dad's 48n with the jungle gym loader. I unbolted the dog legs from the hood, disconnected the fuel line, and picked the hood up off and out
the front.
 

good to know, thanks. i'm gonna wait til the sun shines for a few days to dry out the ignition and make sure this thing thing still runs before I drop the $350 or so on a fresh cooling system. I *hate* working on that front distributor, heh.

how hard is a head gasket, if it really overheated? I've done them on european engines with alloy SOHC/DOHC heads, I know its gotta be a lot simpler than that. does the head plate warp? or is it as easy as removing the head, scraping off the old gasket, new gasket (compound?), and torquing the head back down? new head bolts required or optional ?
 
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I'll have to disconnect the front PTO shaft to the front loader hydraulic pump, too, that or cut a slot in the bottom of the front so the shaft can slide out...

While you're at it, put on a new fan belt. There may come a day when you wish..."I should have put on a new belt when I had it all apart".
 
re head bolts, just learned its got studs and nuts. hopefully I don't need to replace the studs.


yeah, re belt. heh.

and I just watched two youtubes on the head gasket... i'm gonna wish I had a workshop with a hoist. I only hope I can get this thing limping so I can pull it off the field because I hate working knee deep in weeds, you drop a bolt and have to find it in the dried blackberry sprouts? UGH. plus the baby pygmy goats that live in this field are annoying as heck :D

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If you don't have a good straightedge,have a machine shop[dying breed] check it for flatness,then t's pretty easy to put a
head gasket on.
 
Removing the Jungle Jim isn't that hard I built a Tripod made out of 4"or 5" dia. hemlock poles and used a small chain fall, a comalong would work also. There are 4 bolts at the rear axles and 3 or 4 under the front end you will have to remove the pump and shaft. After all is disconnected lift from the lifting loop a few inches and pull the tractor back and out from under watching for interference's as you go, I had to lower the front end a little to clear front bolster I believe. Drive back under it to remount it sounds easy EH. I have done it on 2 different tractors it's not that hard I now have a beam in my tractor shed just for that purpose. Working on that tractor will be a breeze with the loader off you'l see.
 

this one also has a 2x4 steel box section beam that goes across the transmission under the battery, adn the loader is U bolted to that. but yeah, just more really rusty hardware to deal with.
 
Are you sure it not just plugged on the outside get a hose and push water from inside out and
see what comes out maybe take your grille off and lay it to the side so you can watch
its hard to get your hose nozzle in but take your time
 
Never say your tractor is Ugly
Amen, brother! :D

this one also has a 2x4 steel box section beam that goes across the transmission under the battery, adn the loader is U bolted to that. but yeah, just more really rusty hardware to deal with.
Man, I thought my loader setup was a PITA! Removing the hood makes it a lot easier to work on.

Looking at your picture I bet you can work the hood out of it, but it will take some effort. Unbolt it all, move it forward a little, drop the back down where the battery is, it may lift out. You may have to remove the front hood "legs", maybe not. With the tank drained it's not that heavy just awkward.
 
Exactly right! I still have my Wagner, "jungle gym", loader. It is currently not on the '52 8N and may never go back on. Thinking about selling it. Not much use on 3 acres.
Over a period of 60 years I have taken it off and put it on many times, interestingly exactly as you described. A tripod of poles and a chainfalls.
I did it so often, I could set up and take the loader off in half an hour. Putting it back on took a little longer, my best time about 45 minutes. Normally, the loader was only of for short periods so I would leave it hanging on the chainfalls.
I never thought about trying to remove the hood without taking off the loader. But, I wonder, about possibly lifting the hood just enough to get the radiator out and another in. It would definetly require some finesse.
 

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