kmosabe
Bronze Member
- Joined
- May 11, 2006
- Messages
- 81
- Location
- Springfield MO-Ozarks
- Tractor
- Yanmar 1300 Original/beautiful
I have a Yanmar 1300, manuals on order. Have not put any stress on the tractor since I purchased it a month ago. Have driven it about 30 minutes total. Today after about 10 minutes of use, noticed on the driveway fluid of some sort, all indicator lights were normal (doubt the idiot light works, have not tested it because will be replacing it with a gauge). I stopped the tractor and noticed coolant coming out. Hoses, radiator all normal, fluid seems to be leaking on the left side of the motor by the starter. On the block is a quater sized plug and the leak is occuring in this plug. To dark now, will take a picture tomorrow. Is this a freeze plug, if so, how the heck do you get one out, no threads or way to get a bite on it. Do you make a hole with a screwdriver and pop it out and replace it? Definetely will not do anything yet until I get the manuals and hear some feedback.