Re: my every four month visit

Posted by Diana JH on May 20, 2007 at 10:11:28 from (71.51.127.61):

In Reply to: my every four month visit posted by Diana JH on May 19, 2007 at 11:40:09:

OK guys,
I took the hood off and the more I looked, the faster my heart pounded and the sicker I got! I have the list in my hand that I had handed to those guys that charged me 1300.00 to do the maint. on this tractor. I am so upset, I am having chest pains over this! (took some aspirin).
First, of my own fault, I broke the fuel stop control cable. The outer casing of if was broken, which I found out yesterday when I took the dash off. The cable itself was still in one piece till I went to move it this morning and it cracked in two. That is the least of my worries at the moment. Probably good it broke now rather than while out in the field.
The wire is going to the manifold heater as it should be. The intake manifold air restrict valve is MEGA froze up and the adjustment screw is broken. Appears to have been that way for a long time. Although the wire is attached, doesn't mean the heater is working. I'll disconnect the wire, clean the area and reattach to make sure there is good contact.
The hose between the manifold and air cleaner is shot. It looks like it could even be an original hose. It doesn't appear to have any leaks in it though, so if anyone is interested in buying an heirloom IH hose, first 1300.00 takes it with free shipping!
I am blown away since one of the requests on this list I have here was to replace ALL hoses needing replaced, whether they be air, cooling, or hydro. They did replace some of the visible hydro hoses, but not all hydro that were leaking at the time, which kinda p'd me off clear back then. Like it needs to be sucking in air and leaking fluid.
Anyway, the thing that is causing the tummy ache is that the air cleaner, which is an oil cleaning type has the "cap" at the bottom that you put the oil in. This cap was on crooked and at the back side of it you could actually see an air space of roughly 1/4" That is how cockeyed it was on there. When I saw that, my heart started pounding really fast and really hard.
I loosened the fastener and tipped it forward and the thing was FULL of water. Now I can't recall that I used this tractor last year, but I know we used it the year before. I have to assume this filter has been like this since I got it back from the dimwits, which means chances are that there was water in there in 2005 when I used it and this water, even by condensation while running would have sucked right into the manifold! WATER IN MY MOTOR. Not JUST water in my motor, but water in my motor and then a motor that has sat for over a year! This makes me totally sick! Its hard enough to find parts for a utility, let alone a continental diesel.
Still charging batteries and I do think once the rain quits I will go out and check the starter. I'm also gonna switch those wires on the amp gauge cause I really think they are backward.
I gotta get looking for a couple of parts. Not sure I will be able to find the fuel cable, but I might be able to improvise with something from a walk mower...or Toms camaro...choke cable might work...yeh!
Talk soon,
Diana

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