Fun at the old pull

[PageRob]

Great day today in Washington, Utah. The Color Country Antique Machine Club had their last pull of the season today. Just a fun one, not for the records. Too bad, because I pulled that dang sled 63' - 10x further than the pull here in Page. Those new tires really helped! Man, these little Cubs are almost as big of a crowd pleaser as the super heavy-weight mondo tractors. Seeing the little Cub pull that huge sled, the crowd ate it up! Anyway, here's some pics:


Look at that little gal go. Apparently she's 12! One foot on the clutch, one on the throttle, she gave that tractor a good run!


There's Black Cat next to the largest, heaviest tractor of the day. His fronts are almost as big as my rears!

Finally got the thing pressure-washed and there was some decent light outside, so I snapped some pics of some things I've been meaning to document.

Looks like the original oil pan sticker!


Looks like oil and grease leaking out...bad rear main seal is my guess. Anyone else?

All in all, a fun day!

[evielboweviel]

what about that crack in the oil pan?
Ron

[Bigdog]

It may not be a rear main seal. It might be coming from an over-full tranny case.

[WKPoor]

I agree with BD on the tranny fluid overfill or to add a bad tranny seal.

[Jeff Silvey]

It looks to be alot of fun.
The girl looks to be having fun.
I personnaly don't like tri front ends in pull's. or in general.
Jeff

[George Willer]

Remove the hand hole cover and park the tractor with the front end low. If it's the tranny seal (most likely) some oil will run out.

[PageRob]

Tranny seal and/or overfilled tranny, eh? I'll give that parking downhill with the cover off a shot, then.

Crack in the oil pan?

[Jim Becker]

Wherever the leak is coming from, it looks like it is more water than oil. The first thing I would do (after letting it rest over night) is check at the transmission drain plug (drain plug, not the level plug). Put a container under the plug and back it out to let a little of whatever is in it drain out into the pan. You will probably get either plain water or water mixed with oil. If it isn't at least semi-clean oil; drain, flush and refill it.

[PageRob]

Copy that. I've heard that water gets into the tranny pretty easy, and it was just pressure washed, so perhaps that's where the water came from (since I've got antifreeze in the radiator, and it hasn't rained in months). Tomorrow I'll be doing both the tranny drain check and the clutch cover. If its a bad tranny seal, and its leaking fluid, might that account for a noisy transmission?

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

what about that crack in the oil pan?
Ron

That looks like it is jsut in the dirt/pol mix rather than the pan itself.

[Yogie]

I'd say there's water in the trans, you can see that the oil that's leaking out looks milky... When I drained mine I'll bet there was 2 gallon of oil-water that came out, I couldn't believe it held less than 2 qts.

[Jim Becker]

If its a bad tranny seal, and its leaking fluid, might that account for a noisy transmission?

Running with oil that is mostly water might.