1900 oil bath pan

[Red State]

My technician group at one of out facilities made a plaque that read " Honorary Environmental Grunt" and presented to me when I gave them my weekly sermons about mechanical stuff. I very much took at as an honor. They always bash engineers but they consider me "part time of their own"!! emphasizing " Part Time", he he

I'm sure they honor you as the fine individual you are.....never mind the engineer part. Heck, I have friends that are lawyers but I treat them just as good or bad as I do my neighbor...who is an engineer for ThyssenKrupp. HA!!!!! Lawyers and Engineers are easy to bash....I really should do a sequence of cartoons that would brighten everyone's day.

 

[Oakley]

Pics would be good. Mine's a 1900, but probably not too different. My little Kubota has an overflow tank and also a radiator screen, which really helps keep it clean, plus it isn't at the front of the tractor hitting the crap head-on.

 

[JC-jetro]

Pics would be good. Mine's a 1900, but probably not too different. My little Kubota has an overflow tank and also a radiator screen, which really helps keep it clean, plus it isn't at the front of the tractor hitting the crap head-on.

It is a genuine used peanut butter Jar, with a hole on the lid same dia as the radiator over flow hose. System belches and anti-freeze goes in the jar and when system cools down the vacuum pull it right back in. What picture does not show well is about 4 feet of bailing wire I used to steady and attach it to the tractor frame. if you look close you will see it . Don't mount it to axle as it pivots obviously. There is plenty of PB Jar to go around. That particular one is still original:thumbsup:

JC,

ps. Make sure the end of rubber hose is in flooded container, fill the jar with 1 inch hight level of clean anti-freeze and make sure end of the tube is immersed in the liquid.

 

[Oakley]

It is a genuine used peanut butter Jar, with a hole on the lid same dia as the radiator over flow hose. System belches and anti-freeze goes in the jar and when system cools down the vacuum pull it right back in. What picture does not show well is about 4 feet of bailing wire I used to steady and attach it to the tractor frame. if you look close you will see it . Don't mount it to axle as it pivots obviously. There is plenty of PB Jar to go around. That particular one is still original

JC,

 

[Red State]

Thanks for the photos, JC; Mine is a 6oz soda bottle (attached to the blue bars on the side by DUCT TAPE). To get a good vacuum, I placed the tubing through the cap and INSIDE the bottle is a 1/2 long aluminum arrow (yes, archery arrow) and washer that is pinched when screwing the lid on similar to basic plumbing. Before I did that extra bit of engineering.....the tube would sometimes pop out.

So, JC, did/do you simply have your tube going into the lil' hole on top of the jar lid? If so, why would yours not pop out from time to time due to pressure or the occasional limb? Interesting that we are the only ones that I know of who did this and I take great pride in knowing that I was on the same level of GREAT thinking as an Engineer. HA!!!! I believe I even surprised you, JC, a few years ago when I mentioned that I had 'rigged' this up.

On a bit of info that I failed to mention when replying to Oakley earlier..... The 1700 radiator takes less coolant than one would think it needs. I've found that it will rarely go into the overflow (or in your case, on the ground) if it is just over the cells. When I put it as one would think (or feel better about on a hot day) it almost EVERY TIME overflowed. I don't have photos yet of my contraption but here's my radiator flow at work:

tractor running - YouTube

I have since fixed the gasket leak and have worked the living day-lights out of this lil' tractor since then. I regularly mow a 3acre yard with my finishing mower. use two 6' bushogs (one at the hunting place and one here at home on the orchard) and a box-blade that has cleared roots, made nice roads, put in culverts, graded my 350' drive-way twice a year and the heavy disks & breaking plows for garden and deer food plots. These lil' Japanese made Fords are nothing short of WORK HORSES!!!! I'd advise anyone get one.

By the way....I've since power washed the engine. I had not had the tractor a year when this video was made. Put new tires on it, replaced the 'alternator' and if I do any further work on it, it'll be paint it and re-introduce the lights.................BUT THE HORN DOES WORK! HA!!!!

 

[JC-jetro]

Red,

The dia on the lid is slightly less than the rubber hose so it i was a snug fit. What I did on the inside that you can not see was to wrap the the rubber hose with some thin electrical wire to mimic a one sided grommet ( you realize that I am making up as I go). As a result you really have to pull the rubber hose hard to come of the lid. I our part we call it (redneck Engineering 101). as far as the size of the jar it was trial and error with the radiator full and over low at 1" high the expansion of liquid never exceeded my jar. if it did then I would go to a bigger jar. it is at steady state now, at the hottest liquid approaches below the lid and 1" from the bottom when cold.

 

[Red State]

As long as it works, anyone should do it (unless the pressure or lost coolant was to protect the engine). I don't know.....but I like what I've done to the lil' 1700 and would buy another one if the opportunity was right. So, we know that a peanut butter jar and a 6oz soda bottle works (regardless of brand or flavor) HA!!!

I forget what tractor Oakley has but some of the work I've done on my lil' tractor looks as though a construction crew has came with bulldozers and such.

If a new member, and if Oakley has a Ford 1700, I suggest looking into JC-Jetro's many posts and the great photos he provides (especially when he tore into his lift gears). Very clean, helpful photos....gears were surprisingly clean and brand new looking.

 

[pclausen]

I have a 1700 and changed the oil bath oil today. I tried to separate the mesh screen from the upper housing but gave up after trying for like 10 minutes. How do you guys get them separated? I could see where someone had tried getting the 2 pieces apart before and the lip was all messed up on a couple of places from using a small flat blade screwdriver from the looks of it. But that method did not work for me, nor was I able to get a good grip with a pair of pliers to separate the mesh from the outer housing.

 

[stevem5215]

It does not disassemble. You soak it in solvent and then wash with soap and water and rinse well. Then blow it out with air. I then sprayed some WD40 all over it to displace the water and then new oil and assemble.

Steve