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Trying to same my motors

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I like to hand crank my tractor motors a few times a year to keep them loosened up. I waited too long on one already. It was stuck. On a few others, I started removing spark plugs, and adding some oil to the cylinders, and cranking them over, hoping to keep them from sticking. Any body else do that? Stan
 
(quoted from post at 13:40:03 10/12/21) I like to hand crank my tractor motors a few times a year to keep them loosened up. I waited too long on one already. It was stuck. On a few others, I started removing spark plugs, and adding some oil to the cylinders, and cranking them over, hoping to keep them from sticking. Any body else do that? Stan
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start all my seldom used engines, usually on propane so that i DON'T HAVE TO ADD AND THEN DRAIN GASOLINE, at least once a year.
 
I wonder if you removed plug and both valves were closed on the cylinder. If adding starting fluid and match would assist in breaking lose the engine.

Second try, add starter fluid, install spark plug and add a spark. Boom something should move.

Might be safer to add air pressure to cylinder with both valves closed.

I Never had a stuck motor. Good luck.
 
They are a good tractor. If I wasn't so darn old I would still be using the M's in my business. Just climbing up on my truck to unload, was a real challenge. Weed mowing is so much easier. Stan
 
(quoted from post at 14:25:20 10/12/21) Please explain a little how you start on propane.
Thx
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ropane tank with higher pressure regulator, hose into intake or air filter, regulate engine speed with combination of throttle and tank valve. I drove this GEO Tracker around for several days like this before I installed a new fuel pump. Works great of tractor and combine, too.
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I started our Farmall C with the crank yesterday, the battery was fine, but it gives me mechanical confidence to start it with 2 little pulls on the crank!
 

What ever you do, DO NOT drive that into D.C.

:shock:[/quote]eah, I know that tires are not good enough for that trip! :wink:
 
If you're putting tractors away for a long while, turn off the gas and starve them to kill them rather than turning off the spark. Those revolutions winding down after killing the spark are sucking gasoline into the cylinders and work to thin out the remaining oil on the cylinder walls.
 
If your stuck engine hasn't been stuck very long, take plugs out, siphon out any water (coolant, or rain water) with rubber hose. Then blow the heck out the cylinders with air hose through plug holes. Squirt in some ATF. Jack one rear wheel up, shift tranny into highest gear, rock wheel back and forth. You might have to let soak and keep trying this over several days. I have freed up 2 different tractor engines this way, that I KNEW weren't froze very bad and not to long. This will likely not work if it has been locked for years, and by rain water from being outside with no exhaust cover.
I turn mine over from time to time. Not fir prevention, but to insure that I don't have one that has froze up, and I don't know it.
 
Open the tank valve, and hit the starter. The fuel goes through a heat exchanger from hot radiator water, to turn the liquid fuel into a vapor. Stan
 
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