Lets Take a Guess

[Anonymous-0]

So I pulled the valve cover off the M today, and I have a lot of milky oil up there. So, do you guys think it will be a cracked head, or do you think ill get lucky and just have to replace the gasket? I hope im a lucky one.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Jimmy the Greek would bet on a cracked head.
Bad gasket should not give you
"a lot" of milky oil.

Exhaust should be steamy if antifreeze also getting into cylinders.

 

[Owen Aaland]

Are you losing coolant? If not, most likely it is just condensation and completely normal in engines that do not get enough hard work to keep the water boiled off.

 

[Anonymous-0]

warm it good then drain the oil and change filter let it drain overnight fill with new oil and filter then see how the oil looks after a few hrs. it should be clean and if it is milky again you have a problem.

 

[old]

Would you believe thats common for one that doesn't get taken out and worked hard for say 3-5 hours when its run. I would say change the oil and run it long and hard for a few hours. Also make a note of where the coolant lever is and oil level and then as I said make it work. If the coolant doesn't go down or oil go up your problem is yop baby it to much and you need to make it do what it was made for
Hobby farm

 

[Anonymous-0]

I think the boys are right on. This is common for resting tractors to have condensation in the engine. Change the oil and filter. Put a good disk to it and have at it. I suspect it will get better.

 

[bnowen]

I have just done my third letter tractor, all of which had the milky oil in the motor and in the rear end. Any tractor that sits out int he weather and sits there for a while will develop this mater. will have. After the second time you change oil, crank and run it, and then repeat oil change another time, and hold off doing the rear due to cost at this time. The oil and rear end lube usually will be clear. All three rears that I have opened have had milky oiil. And oil change is cheaper than a head gasket and if it has been sitting for a while it will be a good guess. My last C that I did, i changed oil, got and cranked and still had to do a major overhaul on it. So it is hard to tell without either getting it running or micing the journals and cylinders. Good luck.

 

[kyle in NY]

Found that white crud in mine. Called my mechanic to take a look and he laughed and said "thats nothing, just condensation". After some research in the archives on this site, I found that the tractor was probably never getting up to temp, which will prevent the condensation from boiling off. So I installed a new temp gauge and sure enough she was never coming up to temp. Turns out the tractor didnt have a thermostat installed. Put one in and the problem was solved. Motto of story... Start with the Simple stuff first. Good luck.