gengine
Platinum Member
Greetings all. I have a 68 ish massey 165 with some sort of problem. I could have the usual suspects such as a cracked head, blown head gasket, leaking sleeve, hole in sleeve (caused by cavitation of the coolant), cracked block, or a loose head bolt. By the way, its a diesel. I dont have the serial #'s on hand nor the engine #'s, but I can get them if needed. I was wondering though, are these perkins engines wet sleeved? The thing that really makes me wonder, is I was clearing snow from a driveway, with the FEL, not stacking, but using the bucket like a plow, and the tractor over revved. I panicked and shut it down. wasn't sure what to do, started it back up, and it ran fine. I continued to work for a couple more hours, then again, it over revved. i threw the throttle to slow the engine, but no response, the rpm's were still way up there. So I pulled the kill knob, waited a couple minutes, started it and it revved way up again, so i decided it was time to go home. I had to use the kill knob half way pulled out to keep the rpm's from going nuts again so i could load on the trailer. The next day I needed the trailer to get hay, so I started the tractor, it ran normally, went to park it and there was foam coming out of the dip stick. checked the oil, it was foamy with the water mixed in, and the radiator was empty. needless to say, i drained all the oil, put fresh in, and ran for about 2 minutes, then parked. haven't started it since. Does anybody have any ideas or steps to take to get 'er back up and running. The Case 930 is a little big to do the chores that I have. The massey 165 is perfect for most of it.