Re: Old Tractors and COLD WEATHER - a couple of questions ????

Posted by Jon Hagen on November 30, 2000 at 21:53:50 from (63.160.194.33):

In Reply to: Old Tractors and COLD WEATHER - a couple of questions ???? posted by Alberta Mike on November 30, 2000 at 19:27:38:

We don't know how good we have it with modern antifreeze. My dad told me about some of the concoctions they used to use in liquid cooled engines in winter. One was to use kerosene in the radiator, it didn't cool very well and would ruin the rubber radiator hoses in a couple of weeks and burn if it leaked or boiled over on the exhaust.Another was to use a brine solution somthing like cal cloride tire fluid,this was very hard on metal engine parts especially the radiator. Another was using Methanol alcohol and water mix, you had to remove the thermostat to make the engine run as cool as possible because of the low boiling point of alcohol and constantly be checking and adding alcohol to keep it from freezing and if the alcohol was stronger than a 50% mix it would burn if it got on the hot exhaust. The most common thing was to carry a bucket of warm water to the machine to fill the radiator , you had to keep the radiator covered to prevent radiator freezing while you were using it and you drained it as soon as you were done.This is where most of the cracked blocks came from, someone would forget or was delayed and the thing didn't get drained soon enough.
Our old 1950T Oliver is made for # 90 gear oil in the trans and rear end, we have used it for years with hytran in it with good results except more gear noise. The IH tractors of the 60"s-70's used hytran in their bull gear driveline's with no problems. The stuff has extreme pressure additives to take high loads but will make more gear noise and leak more than #90.

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