What's the most thoughtless thing you've done to a tractor

Posted by fixerupper on February 03, 2014 at 18:47:35 from (100.42.83.15):

And gotten away with it without damaging anything?

I have this SC Case that I think is about the best little yard tractor to come along since sliced bread. Anyway, over ten years ago it was getting anti-freeze in the oil from leaky sleeves so I pulled the sleeves, replaced the O rings and put it back together. I wasn't sure of the job the new O rings were doing and this was June so I put straight water in it.

Come time to store it that fall I forgot to drain the water, or at least put anti-freeze back in. You know what happened, nice long crack in the side of the block and it lost it's water on the ground.

That was mistake #1. So I can't truthfully say I didn't damage anything, but it could have been worse. Here's the rest of the story.

Mistake #2 came next spring when I fired it up and took off with it before checking the radiator. I must have been running it maybe ten minutes when I could smell the paint burning off the head. By the time I stopped to check it out the paint was really smoking. When I was looking at where the smoke was coming from I saw the cracked block. The crack didn't bother me nearly as much as the sight of the paint on the head turning black. I thought I'd wrecked a perfectly good engine.

I took it to the shop, removed the manifold and welded the crack with nickel, followed by a coat of JB. I've used that little girl quite a bit in the ten years or more since then and I haven't noticed any adverse effects. There might be some cracks in the head but they must not be leaking.

What's your story? Jim

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