Brought 57 cub home today

[DJ54]

Next time you change the filter remove the copper washer and take it along with you to a parts store where you get your filter and get a new copper crush washer. Normally I suggest checking Case/IH to compare prices vs. aftermarket/auto parts stores prices. Saved you the time and checked Case/IH, they want $22+ for it. NAPA and others should have one that size for about 1/10th that price. I believe Steiner was $4.50.

They normally seal well unless someone has over tightened at some point, and maybe put a gouge in the washer. The important thing is to know when to say when tightening and stripping the bolt, or threads in the base, that could get a lot more expensive.

Part # is 25352D if you want to check online.

 

[wolc123]

Next time you change the filter remove the copper washer and take it along with you to a parts store where you get your filter and get a new copper crush washer. Normally I suggest checking Case/IH to compare prices vs. aftermarket/auto parts stores prices. Saved you the time and checked Case/IH, they want $22+ for it. NAPA and others should have one that size for about 1/10th that price. I believe Steiner was $4.50.

They normally seal well unless someone has over tightened at some point, and maybe put a gouge in the washer. The important thing is to know when to say when tightening and stripping the bolt, or threads in the base, that could get a lot more expensive.

Part # is 25352D if you want to check online.

Will do, thanks for the advice. I’ll probably be changing the oil and filter next spring, if I use it a fair amount this winter. It’s got one fresh quart of 15W-50 Shell Rotella in it now, that I added to whatever my mechanic put in it, 50 or so operating hours ago.

Before I took it apart and sanded the cover, I tried just tightening up the bolt a little. That didn’t work, and it continued to drip. When I took it apart, the copper washer surface looked pretty good, but the cover top not so hot with some shallow ring grooves.

I sanded those flat, put it all back together, and it is holding good now. I’m probably going to hold off running it for a week or two now, because it looks like we are heading into a dry spell. I’m not going to plant my winter wheat / white clover mix until I see a little rain in the extended forecast.

Yesterday, they were calling for rain next Wednesday, here in upstate north western NY. Now they have taken that away and there is no rain at all in the extended forecast. Maybe I’ll use the Cub, instead of my field car (Dodge Durango), for my daily dinner sweetcorn harvest today, just to give that filter oil cover seal a little test.

My Kandy corn is just about perfect right now but I’m racing the deer to eat it.

 

[wolc123]

The Cub got a couple hours on it tonight, cultipacking a few acres of wheat and clover that I had just sown. The oil leak repair held up good. The lights worked well also. Good thing because I needed them to finish up 1/2 hour past sunset.