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.
Egg in your Radiator
- Bill V in Md
- 10+ Years
- Posts: 1124
- Joined: Sun Feb 02, 2003 6:51 pm
- Zip Code: 21228
- Tractors Owned: 1948 Farmall Cub
LT1045 Cub Cadet - Circle of Safety: Y
- Location: MD, Catonsville
- Contact:
Egg in your Radiator
I was watching the TV show "Myth-Busters" last night. They attempted to prove whether adding an egg (cracked of course, no shell) to the radiator will stop a leak or not. Don't know if anyone has heard of this myth before, but they did in fact prove that it works. They pierced a radiator with an ice pick, and water began to squirt out the hole. Then they took off the radiator cap, cracked the egg and in she goes. About 15-20 seconds later, no more water leak. The car ran for a couple of minutes and still no leak. Don't know how long it would last, but I was impressed.
Bill VanHooser
Cub 54 Blade, Cub 193 Moldboard Plow, Cub 28A Disc Harrow
Cub 54 Blade, Cub 193 Moldboard Plow, Cub 28A Disc Harrow
- Carm
- 10+ Years
- Posts: 1085
- Joined: Thu Aug 28, 2003 2:11 pm
- Zip Code: 21234
- Tractors Owned: 1947 FCub 1948 FCub (FrankenCub), 1949 C, 1952 SA, 1963 IH 3414 Backhoe Diesel, 1960 Oliver 880 Diesel, 1945 Mack EF Fire Truck
- Circle of Safety: Y
- Location: MD, Baltimore and Freeland
- Contact:
- Brent
- 10+ Years
- Posts: 1055
- Joined: Thu Feb 06, 2003 9:21 am
- Zip Code: 93510
- Location: Acton Ca.
Bill,
When I was MUCH younger a couple of freinds and I had an old 32 ford we ran around through the woods and fields before we could legally drive. We used an egg in the old radiator alot. If we didn't drive the car for a couple of days we had to add another egg. That water in the radiator was pretty rank so the egg probably desolved after a couple of days of no use. Since we had a steady supply of eggs we never had to worry. Wish I had that car now!
When I was MUCH younger a couple of freinds and I had an old 32 ford we ran around through the woods and fields before we could legally drive. We used an egg in the old radiator alot. If we didn't drive the car for a couple of days we had to add another egg. That water in the radiator was pretty rank so the egg probably desolved after a couple of days of no use. Since we had a steady supply of eggs we never had to worry. Wish I had that car now!
Always try the easiest thing first.
- Carm
- 10+ Years
- Posts: 1085
- Joined: Thu Aug 28, 2003 2:11 pm
- Zip Code: 21234
- Tractors Owned: 1947 FCub 1948 FCub (FrankenCub), 1949 C, 1952 SA, 1963 IH 3414 Backhoe Diesel, 1960 Oliver 880 Diesel, 1945 Mack EF Fire Truck
- Circle of Safety: Y
- Location: MD, Baltimore and Freeland
- Contact:
- George Willer
- Cub Pro
- Posts: 7013
- Joined: Sun Feb 02, 2003 9:36 pm
- Zip Code: 43420
- Circle of Safety: Y
- Location: OHIO, Fremont
- Contact:
Carm wrote:Man, I cant imagine changing that fluid What about horse manure? An old farmer fried said that he used horse manure in his model AFord and it workes. I'll bet that radiator smelled too!
Some of those old methods seemed to work. I like the temporary cure for a noisy transmission... fill it with oats! I guess it worked long enough to get the turkey sold.
George Willer
http://gwill.net
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. Ambrose Bierce
http://gwill.net
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. Ambrose Bierce
- Carm
- 10+ Years
- Posts: 1085
- Joined: Thu Aug 28, 2003 2:11 pm
- Zip Code: 21234
- Tractors Owned: 1947 FCub 1948 FCub (FrankenCub), 1949 C, 1952 SA, 1963 IH 3414 Backhoe Diesel, 1960 Oliver 880 Diesel, 1945 Mack EF Fire Truck
- Circle of Safety: Y
- Location: MD, Baltimore and Freeland
- Contact:
- beaconlight
- 10+ Years
- Posts: 7703
- Joined: Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:31 pm
- Zip Code: 10314
- Location: NY Staten Island & Franklin
Was that rolled oats?
I was rear ended by somebody in the neighborhood at a stop sign. It was in 1957. My first car a 1936 Chevey with a knee action front end. We put Jucy Fruit chewing gum in the rad holes. No leaks for the 2 or 3 years he still owned the 38 Pontiac. we had no idea if it would last but it got him home and when there was no leak the next morning he just left it that way.
Bill
I was rear ended by somebody in the neighborhood at a stop sign. It was in 1957. My first car a 1936 Chevey with a knee action front end. We put Jucy Fruit chewing gum in the rad holes. No leaks for the 2 or 3 years he still owned the 38 Pontiac. we had no idea if it would last but it got him home and when there was no leak the next morning he just left it that way.
Bill
Bill
"Life's tough.It's even tougher if you're stupid."
- John Wayne
" We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
- Aesop
"Life's tough.It's even tougher if you're stupid."
- John Wayne
" We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
- Aesop
- Brent
- 10+ Years
- Posts: 1055
- Joined: Thu Feb 06, 2003 9:21 am
- Zip Code: 93510
- Location: Acton Ca.
My Dad told me once that when the tubes in the kids bicycle were shot he used to put oats in the tires mixed with water. The oats would swell and away he would go. Thirteen kids in the family so money was tight, but with that brood his Dad had plenty of help on the farm.
Always try the easiest thing first.
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 21 guests