Replacing oil petcocks

[Art Cube]

Hi,

I got as 1940 H a while back and when I changed the oil the spinners on the petcocks just turned off instead of opening. I see they are available to purchase so that's not an issue.

I took a vise grip to try and turn them out but either it's not supposed to be easy or they look almost welded in. I don't want to break them apart and have a mess as the tractor runs fine and I can still open the top one using a vise grip.

Any advice on changing these out would be great.

Thanks,
Rob

[Jim Becker]

They screw in, pipe thread. The problem installing them is getting the opening pointing down. They may have been overtightened to accomplish that.

[Art Cube]

Here's a photo. I guess more effort is all that's required.

[Scrivet]

Looks typical. Someone has over tightened them to shut off, or more likely, tried turning the wrong way to open them (clockwise to open) one to many times and snapped off the "handles". If you're going to replace them put a pipe wrench on them and unscrew the whole thing (counter-clockwise) from the oil pan. When you get the new ones installed, the valve itself doesn't need seated much more than finger tight.

[Art Cube]

Thanks, I hadn't thought of using a pipe wrench.

[Rick Spivey]

As Scrivet said, and I just want to highlight, the petcock portion is reverse threaded, so clockwise to open, ccw to close. No "rightie tightie" on these!

[Jim Becker]

As Scrivet said, and I just want to highlight, the petcock portion is reverse threaded, so clockwise to open, ccw to close. No "rightie tightie" on these!

NO NO NO.

That is how the handles get twisted off -- usually somebody turning CCW to try to close it. They are left handed threads but also a back seating valve. You turn it CCW to open and CW to close.

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

Jim beat me to it.

[Rick Spivey]

Oops, Sorry Guys, Jim is correct. I remembered that something was "odd" about these compared to a bolt. When I'm turning it CW to close, it is actually backing out of the housing due to the left hand threads and back seating valve. Sorry for my confusion! I had to walk out to the H this morning to get it straight in my head.