Hello everyone,
I'm working on a '52 8n, I thought we were finished but about ten minutes into bush hogging for the first time the oil pressure was down to less than 10 psi. Cold its running about 35 psi. I just did a fresh oi/filterl change with Mobile Delcac 15W40 (my local store was out of Shell Rotella). I looked at the oil pressure relief plunger and someone has already stretch out the spring and the plunger has a pretty good groove around the tip, so I'll replace both of those. A few months ago I cleaned out all the oil lines and replaced the guage so I don't think that's it. Dry I'm getting 115, 110, 110, 105 (1-4) on the compression, wet I got 130, 135, 110, 130. I'm including pics of the plugs, they have less than an hour of use and a lot of that time was adjusting the carb, I gapped them per the ford manual. I don't see any oil in the coolant, I don't see any signs of water in the oil. I'm guessing dropping the oil pan is next? Looking at oil pump kits online this pump is like nothing I've seen before, what am I looking for?
This is our first tractor ever, we got it from a guy that claimed to have no mechanical ability and he admitted to overheating it once. We have replaced/repaired every system on the tractor so far but we were hoping to not have to rebuild the motor, that's a little beyond my skill level.
Thanks for your advice!
I'm working on a '52 8n, I thought we were finished but about ten minutes into bush hogging for the first time the oil pressure was down to less than 10 psi. Cold its running about 35 psi. I just did a fresh oi/filterl change with Mobile Delcac 15W40 (my local store was out of Shell Rotella). I looked at the oil pressure relief plunger and someone has already stretch out the spring and the plunger has a pretty good groove around the tip, so I'll replace both of those. A few months ago I cleaned out all the oil lines and replaced the guage so I don't think that's it. Dry I'm getting 115, 110, 110, 105 (1-4) on the compression, wet I got 130, 135, 110, 130. I'm including pics of the plugs, they have less than an hour of use and a lot of that time was adjusting the carb, I gapped them per the ford manual. I don't see any oil in the coolant, I don't see any signs of water in the oil. I'm guessing dropping the oil pan is next? Looking at oil pump kits online this pump is like nothing I've seen before, what am I looking for?
This is our first tractor ever, we got it from a guy that claimed to have no mechanical ability and he admitted to overheating it once. We have replaced/repaired every system on the tractor so far but we were hoping to not have to rebuild the motor, that's a little beyond my skill level.
Thanks for your advice!