This site uses cookies to maintain login information on FarmallCub.Com. Click the X in the banner upper right corner to close this notice. For more information on our privacy policy, visit this link:
Privacy Policy

NEW REGISTERED MEMBERS: Be sure to check your SPAM/JUNK folders for the activation email.

Vinegar In A Stuck Motor???

Farmall B & BN Tractors, 1939-1947
Forum rules
Notice: For sale and wanted posts are not allowed in this forum. Please use our free classifieds or one of our site sponsors for your tractor and parts needs.
Cub-Bud
Team Cub Guide
Team Cub Guide
Posts: 3543
Joined: Sun Feb 02, 2003 6:30 pm
Zip Code: 38658
eBay ID: Cub-Bud
Tractors Owned: Four FCUBs, one IH Lo-Boy, one B Farmall, two Cadets, and a John Deere B.
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: MS, Pope

Vinegar In A Stuck Motor???

Postby Cub-Bud » Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:08 pm

Seems the motor on Miss B Farmall is stuck...#3 and #4. I removed the cylinder head and took it to my favorite machinist so he give some attention to a few (3) stuck valves. I told him about the stuck motor and he replied, "Did you pour vinegar in it?" Of course, my answer was no...I have never heard of this. Has anyone else and was there success :?:
"Never forget where it is you come from, or you may find yourself someplace you don't want to be"

Greg Norman

SPONSOR AD

Sponsor



Sponsor
 

User avatar
KETCHAM
10+ Years
10+ Years
Posts: 5878
Joined: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:37 pm
Zip Code: 44645
eBay ID: kevinb2366
Tractors Owned: 47 Cub 48 Cub 50 H
Location: Marshallville Ohio
Contact:

Re: Vinegar In A Stuck Motor???

Postby KETCHAM » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:22 pm

Vinegar is a mild acid...should work.....Kevin :shock: :shock: :shock:
47 CUB[Krusty] 49 CUB[Ollie] 50 H-- PLOWS DISCS MOWERS AND lots more stuff!!Life is to short -Have fun now cause ya ain't gonna be here long!!!!

Matt Kirsch
10+ Years
10+ Years
Posts: 4945
Joined: Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:04 pm
Zip Code: 14559
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: Rochester, NY

Re: Vinegar In A Stuck Motor???

Postby Matt Kirsch » Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:05 pm

The one I heard many years ago: Coca cola.

User avatar
John *.?-!.* cub owner
Cub Pro
Cub Pro
Posts: 23701
Joined: Sun Feb 02, 2003 2:09 pm
Zip Code: 63664
Tractors Owned: 47, 48, 49 cub plus Wagner loader & other attachments. 41 Farmall H.
Location: Mo, Potosi

Re: Vinegar In A Stuck Motor???

Postby John *.?-!.* cub owner » Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:02 pm

Matt Kirsch wrote:The one I heard many years ago: Coca cola.
I always heard it is good for cleaning up a corroded battery terminal in an emergency, but never tried it myself.
If you are not part of the solution,
you are part of the problem!!!

v w
10+ Years
10+ Years
Posts: 1173
Joined: Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:56 am
Zip Code: 49053
Circle of Safety: Y
Location: Galesburg, MI

Re: Vinegar In A Stuck Motor???

Postby v w » Sat Aug 04, 2012 7:37 am

Another home remendy I heard of is brake fluid. The only engine I know of which was done this way (61 Olds 394cid) had set up from overheating not rust. Engine ran for several years after. Vern

RustyFarmall
10+ Years
10+ Years
Posts: 173
Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:14 pm
Zip Code: 51646
Location: New Market, Iowa
Contact:

Re: Vinegar In A Stuck Motor???

Postby RustyFarmall » Mon Sep 17, 2012 1:51 pm

I tried the vinegar trick on a severly stuck Farmall H engine. The vinegar did have some effect, but that engine was bad enough that nothing else worked either. I ended up breaking those pistons to remove them, and I could see where the vinegar had started to work. Maybe if I had left it soaking for another year or two, the vinegar MIGHT have been successful.

Vinegar is cheap enough. Get a jug or two and see what happens.

cub47
10+ Years
10+ Years

Re: Vinegar In A Stuck Motor???

Postby cub47 » Thu Feb 21, 2013 6:56 pm

I use Hy-tran and let it sit on top of the piston to leak down. Takes a few days.


Return to “Farmall B & BN”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 4 guests