flooded tractors

dahlin · Sep 22, 2016

I wonder how many of the flooded tractors get sold to unsuspecting buyers. and how much damage would have been done by being under water is it enough to get change the oil have been seeing some cheap tractors and am wondering if they came from a flood area. Randy

old · Sep 22, 2016

Over the years I have delt with a few of them and most if not all of them where never as good as they once where.

Had an A/C B that a friend borrowed while I was out of town. It stalled in the creek and they left it there to get help pulling it out. In the time they where gone the creek started to come up so they chained it where it was and waited for the help to come home. By the time they got to it to pull it out it had been under water up and over the hood. We took it all apart but it never did run well after that

Goose · Sep 22, 2016

I'd be leery.

I've never dealt with a tractor that had been under water, but 30 years ago when I was in the boat repair business I dealt with a few outboards that had been sunk. You have to disassemble them, wash them out, dry them out, reassemble and hope for the best. In fresh water, you can take your time. Rule of the thumb was, in salt water you had four hours to do it and get it running again or forget it.

docmirror · Sep 22, 2016

I did a stupid thing this spring. I left my Ford 8N out at the lake house, and we had a 7' flood of the lake.

It completely swamped my tractor. As soon as the water went down, I pulled the plugs, drained all the fluids, and cleaned out the distributor. I put 3 quarts of diesel fuel in the crankcase, and 5 quarts of diesel in the trans/pump case. Replaced the batt, and cranked it over a while while spritzing some WD-40 in the cyls. I rebuilt the carb, then drained the diesel, and filled the crankcase with new oil, and new hyd fluid in the trans/pump.

After removing all the crud from the dist, and setting the points, I filled the gas tank full, then drained out 1 gallon of goop and hooked up the fuel. After starting it, I let it run and get up to full temp for a while.

I had to rebuild the gen, and clean the starter well, but it runs great now. No long term trouble but it was a bunch of messy, goopy work.

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