My one deere tractor appears to have the stream of bubbles sign of a bad head gasket thing going on. But with no other symptoms such as white smoke or cross contamination so I'm not sure. Anyone know if the head gasket repair stuff actually works for small leaks? Or am I doomed to a 10k repair after 3000 hours
Issue in deere tractor....again.
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the stuff is a band aid on a chainsaw wound!
could be as simple as A head gasket ... and if that is the case - smile!!!!!! OR is could be a cracked head or block then no smile!!!!
You can do a pressure test - or simple pull the head and take a looks see - aint gonna cost 10K!!! IF it does........... that mechanic works with titanium tools!
could be as simple as A head gasket ... and if that is the case - smile!!!!!! OR is could be a cracked head or block then no smile!!!!
You can do a pressure test - or simple pull the head and take a looks see - aint gonna cost 10K!!! IF it does........... that mechanic works with titanium tools!
It has no other symptoms except that bubble. No power loss, nothing so definitely nothing more than a gasket. I attached a video the only other thing is almost every coolant line is leaking at the fittings. Ok I'll try to attach a video i mean
Theres the video and actually I had valve guides done on an engine which was 5k Canadian. So if I send it to deere it's atleast 10k I'm sure but the next door mechanic shop probably 2 to 3k
Would the bandaid last at all? Atleast enough to keep using it just doing light work until we get it in a shop. I wish I knew how to do that level of work to an engine but I'm not there yet
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That is the top of the radiator, alot of tractors have that expansion bottle as the top of the rad. It has a pressure relif cap and hose on it. Unless theres another cap but I didn't see it
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Before you add ANYTHING ..... simply measure the top of the radiator neck (where the water comes in) and the lower (where it goes out) and tell us what the temps are.....
Allow it to get good and hot - do TWO readings ..... one where you are running around and not getting hot, and another where you are pushing the limits of high temp.
Allow it to get good and hot - do TWO readings ..... one where you are running around and not getting hot, and another where you are pushing the limits of high temp.
It's already at a repair shop lol. My dad called it was bad enough that as soon as you turn it on it bubbles like crazy in the overflow and the level goes from nearly empty to full. When you shut it off you can hear the air leak out and the fluid run back down in. Hopefully they don't break it worse, I have little faith in deere
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There's no contamination of either fluid so I think it's the gasket. It was occasionally idling funny last year so I'd say it's been going on a while. I changed the oil and it was clean. Fun fact is that tractor holds about 5.5 gallons of oil, I found that out one year when I only had one bucket ready with a little in the bottom and a gallon of oil ran down my road.
I just need to win a few hundred grand so I can replace that tractor with a kubota and out old new holland with a kubota. But each would be 120 to 150k Canadian and I'm not a gold miner so were stuck with deere
They pressurized the cooling system to test for a head gasket leak. It only dropped 2psi which is so small it's likely a connection in the tester. The pressurized cooling system didn't push fluid into the cylinders or anywhere else. As far as any of us can tell there is a different source of air getting into the cooling system. They had it on a dyno for over an hour at a 90-100hp load and it had no issues not even overheating so Idk.