Posted by ScottyHOMEy on June 08, 2009 at 07:19:58 from (70.105.239.118):
In Reply to: Newbie questions posted by Rossputin on June 08, 2009 at 06:04:43:
Hi, Ross, and welcome aboard.
Good quesstions. Firts order of business is to get an Operator's Manual. They're sold on this site (there's a link over to the left) or at binderbooks.com. That will have all sorts of useful info, including as charts illustrating lube and maintenance points, as well as maintenance intervals. Good pointers, too, on safe operation. It will specify different motor oils but you have to remember that it was written almost 70 years ago and a lot has been done with oils since. The brand is up to you. As far as weight, straight 30 works just fine, multiweights no thinner than 10, like 10-30 or 10-40 (but NOT 5-30) are fine. Some people swear by the 15-40 oils formulated for use in diesels. It's your choice.
Run it for a while and get to know it. I have no idea what your experience on a wrench is, but if you go to make repairs (like seals, gaskets . . .) two other books come into play -- the Service Manual and the Parts Catalog. The former is for procedures on R&R of large segments and has a lot in it for specs. The latter has exploded views of the non-hardware items on the tractor and can be invaluable for figuring out how things are put together so you can take them apart. Anything gives you any sass, look at the books or come onto the board here and somebody will help you out.
Common items like oil filters and pan and valve cover gaskets, belts and so on can be had from any good NAPA or CarQuest. For other parts, you can go to a CaseIHNHFord dealer (it works better finding parts for these old tractors if they were an IH or CaseIH dealer before all the merging). Or a lot of times NAPA and CarQuest can cross bearing and seal numbers from the part number that you will supply from your parts catalog, calling it, of course, by its correct name. Clever, eh!
And just by way of bein' a nice guy, I'll share the newbie's tip about changin your oil filter. It's under the dome on the right side of your motor. The bolt head at the top is what you loosen to remove the dome to get to the filter. Don't get too overly gumptious removing or replacing that bolt as it is hollow. But the real hint is to look for the two gaskets. One is just a copper gasket (looks like a washer) that is under the head of the hollow bolt. If it's not there you should get one, it can be reused several times. But the tricky one is in the circular groove where the bottom of the filter dome rests and is a square o-ring. If it hasn't been changed in some time, it will look just like metal. It will seem to be as hard as metal. If you are looking at a groove that is anything less than about 3/16" deep it is in there hiding from you and needs to be gotten out, as a new gasket (which should be packaged with your new filter) will not seal if installed on top of this one. Use little scredriver, the tip of a knife blade or any other pointy thing to get it started and dig it out of there.
Go for it, operate it safely and sensibly, and let us know how you're making out.
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