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Glockhead SWMI 
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 Topic: One of the WD's runs! Oil problem...
Posted: 13 Jun 2010 at 9:42pm |
Well I got the C/b running pretty good so I turned my attention to one of the WD's. I tore the mag apart and cleaned it up. Drained the old gas and changed the oil. I pulled the valve cover off to find a recently overhauled head. New valves, locks and freeze plugs from what I can tell. I cranked her up and she fired right up. However, I let it run about thirty seconds and do not have any oil pressure to the valve train. I also pulled the oil filter and have no oil there either.
What is the best way to prime a WD oil pump?
Is it common for oil pump shafts to break or some other type of oil pump failure on a wd?
Hoping I don't have to drop the pan. If I do, no biggie. I have plenty of parts around to fix her up.
Thanks, Jesse.
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bigfish_Oh
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Posted: 13 Jun 2010 at 9:45pm |
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I found someone did not tighten a compression fitting once when head was overhauled
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Wendell(OK/TX)
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Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 12:37am |
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Did you put oil back in it? LOL. Don't want to ruin your day but I bought a running '48 WD years ago with no oil pressure gauge. Got it home, changed oil (nasty) and put on a gauge, no pressure. Found the oil pump locked up and stripped the teeth off the cam. Hope your luck is better than mine.
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Glockhead SWMI
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Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 6:07am |
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I have so little money invested in this, if thats what happened, then thats what happened. I will check that and see what I find.
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ChuckLuedtkeSEWI
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Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 8:24pm |
What I did on the WD that I got that was tight was I took off the oil filter and took the small tube off of where the oil comes out and then filled up the tube hole with oil from a squirt oil can until no more would go down. I then cranked it over with the starter but with the ignition off so it wouldn't start unti some started to squirt back. I then reassembled the oil filter and cranked it until I had oil up in the valve train. Once I had oil pressure on the gauge and oil in the valvetrain, I then started it up. I don't know if that method will work for you but it did work for me.
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mlpankey
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Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 8:37pm |
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want run long with no oiling going on.
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Glockhead SWMI
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Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 9:04pm |
Pankey. You sir are a genius. Maybe even a rocket scientist. No one speaks the obvious more than you. Thanks for your sharing your vast knowledge with us.
Chuck, I thought I would pump some oil down there and see if that works. If not I will tear it down and see what is going on. I do not know the history of this tractor. Maybe this is way it was abandoned. Sure sounded like it ran good when it popped off. But it only ran a little bit before I shut her down. Hopefully it is a good one still.
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mlpankey
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Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 7:04am |
 Glockhead SWMI wrote:
Pankey. You sir are a genius. Maybe even a rocket scientist. No one speaks the obvious more than you. Thanks for your sharing your vast knowledge with us.
Chuck, I thought I would pump some oil down there and see if that works. If not I will tear it down and see what is going on. I do not know the history of this tractor. Maybe this is way it was abandoned. Sure sounded like it ran good when it popped off. But it only ran a little bit before I shut her down. Hopefully it is a good one still. |
Yes not everyone is as intellegent as I to make a air /oil pressurized bottle that hooks in to where the oil gauge is originally on 201 and 226 engines to bring the oil pressure up on a engine that hasnt been run in a while. Their bearings usually tell on them though.
Edited by mlpankey - 15 Jun 2010 at 7:12am
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Adam Stratton
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Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 7:49am |
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Something else simple you might check, I have seen the little oil lines get blockages in them after setting for a long time. You might take them off and blow through them to check. Also, make sure that you are using a gauge that you know works. I have ran into bad gauges before also.
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