I have the same problem with my 1550 utility, it has the oil bath air cleaner. I had changed the oil this fall so that she would be ready for winter snow and loading my sander on the plow truck and generator when needed. After this last ice storm I didn"t think about it much, the old girl had about 30 hours continuous at PTO speed, with the radiator partly covered to keep her nice and warm. A couple of days after the ice storm went to start it, no go, just some smoke pulled the breather oil cup, had a hard time getting it off, bottom full of ice and the oil looking like a light chocolate froth of semi-ice. This has happened to this tractor several times when used in winter storms. It has to be the moisture in the air condensing into the oil and displacing the oil up into the steel wool and pulling some into the engine. When it gets shutdown it will freeze up and block all the air from the engine. Lou
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