Over heating?

Posted by Bill McKinney on March 04, 2001 at 08:54:34 from (63.50.189.136):

Group,

I wrote a while back about where to connect the temp guage. Well, the only place on my John Deere MT to connect it is at the top of the water jacket connetor that runs to the radiator. When I am just running the tractor the temp doesn't get quite to 200 degrees. Well, yesterday I hooked up my flail mower and ran it for a little while. The temp went to 230 degrees. It was only about 40 degrees outside and I could see a little steam coming out of the radiator cap. I talked to my brother who has a 40 J.D. and he said you can see steam at times from his too. His temp guage connects at the top of the block by the head, and does not get quite that high. I do remember some of you telling me that it will get high if it connects to the water jacket going to the radiator. Do I need to worry, or is this normal? How do I tell if my radiator is partially plugged? By the way, as soon as I stopped the mower,and idled it back a bit, the temp came right down to about 200.

Thank you in advance for any and all help. You guys on this "Net" have been so helpful in the past and I for one really like coming here to read all the advice.

Thanks a bunch,

Oh yes, by the way, Thanks for all you that helped me with my alternator problem. It is working so well now that yesterday I got my airplane out of the hanger to run it so I could stir up the oil after sitting most of the winter. Well, I flooded it and then run the battery down. Not to fear, since I have no electric at my hanger, I just sat my MT out in front of the plane and hooked up jumper cables and let her sit and run at 1/2 throttle for about 20 minutes. The plane started just fine!

Bill McKinney

Follow Ups:

• Re: Over heating? Jim/Mississippi 20:45:56 03/08/01 (1)
  • Re: Re: Over heating? Bill McKinney 18:55:16 03/09/01 (0)

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