fshnguy
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I recently tried to start my 40+ year old Ford 2600 diesel during a period of freezing weather. I had to jump the battery to get enough juice to turn it over but when I did it fired up and within seconds there was a very loud clank-clank-clank-clank bell like noise from the radiator/water pump area and I immediately shut it off.
This week was warm. In the 50's. I started the tractor again and had no noise. I pulled it out of the shop to put more water in the radiator as usual. (It leaks water and always needs more when I run it). I was filling the radiator with a garden hose and it never seemed to get enough and then I noticed water/oil mix burbling out of a discharge pipe discharging near the bottom of the block near the front right corner. The pipe/tube originated from the cylinder head! I pulled the dipstick and water/oil came pouring up out of the hole! How is water getting from the radiator to the engine block and into the oil pan? Was the loud clanking noise my water pump going south? Did that open a hole to the block?
Water and oil pouring out of an engine block seems like a death knell.
Anyone have some words of wisdom for me?
Sincerely, Mike
This week was warm. In the 50's. I started the tractor again and had no noise. I pulled it out of the shop to put more water in the radiator as usual. (It leaks water and always needs more when I run it). I was filling the radiator with a garden hose and it never seemed to get enough and then I noticed water/oil mix burbling out of a discharge pipe discharging near the bottom of the block near the front right corner. The pipe/tube originated from the cylinder head! I pulled the dipstick and water/oil came pouring up out of the hole! How is water getting from the radiator to the engine block and into the oil pan? Was the loud clanking noise my water pump going south? Did that open a hole to the block?
Water and oil pouring out of an engine block seems like a death knell.
Anyone have some words of wisdom for me?
Sincerely, Mike
