Re: My First H - Problems

Posted by Michael Soldan on February 22, 2005 at 21:02:12 from (66.203.172.221):

In Reply to: My First H - Problems posted by colekicker on February 21, 2005 at 23:06:43:

Colekicker, I learned a lot from an old guy who has an auto wrecking yard from the 1930's. He told me to never turn an engine over that hasn't been running. He claimed you needed to turn it back and forth so the pistons would work any rust and corrosion ahead of thier path and eventually you would turn the engine a complete revolution rather than forcing the pistons to travel up the entire sleeve or down in a corroded environment. Do as the others have suggested, get oil into the cylinders and I would take the valve cover off and oil up the rocker arms and what I could of the valve train from above. I have two H's and my experience is that if it is below freezing where you are the rear end has water in it and the tractor is frozen. Brake bands on an H can corrode/rust to the drum and be stuck on there pretty solid as well. Both my H's had a lot of water in the rear end when I got them, one had two and a half gallons come out before the oil started coming, the other had about a gallon. I am sure the owner of your tractor didn't put it in the barn locked in two gears, it was probably running and drove in , so you need to thaw it out, lube it up and pretty soon you will be spinning it over and putting fuel to the spark. There was a lot of good responses to your question. Keep us posted of your progress and don't be afraid to ask more questions, lots of us have started out with a tractor in worse condition than yours...good luck, Mike in Exeter Ontario

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