ncridgerunner
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Equipment
BX23, finish mower, bush hog, box scraper, blade scraper, fertilizer spreader
My friend's father gave him a Kubota L185 tractor with about 1500 hours. This tractor had only been started a few times in the last 25 years. I have been helping service his tractor with fluids and filters. It starts and runs good however after cleaning a great deal of oil gunk off the engine I found it was leaking oil from two places. The "valve cover gasket" was easy to fix but it is also leaking a good bit from what on a car would be the head gasket. Oil slowly seeps out at idle but bubbles out at higher rpm's.
I did not see any oil in the coolant when we changed it out and I didn't notice any coolant in the oil when we changed it. The radiator was full when we picked up the tractor but I don't know if anyone added any before we picked it up.
Not being very familiar with diesel engines does this sound like a type of leak caused by a failed head gasket?
I did not see any oil in the coolant when we changed it out and I didn't notice any coolant in the oil when we changed it. The radiator was full when we picked up the tractor but I don't know if anyone added any before we picked it up.
Not being very familiar with diesel engines does this sound like a type of leak caused by a failed head gasket?