How bad did I mess it up YM2200

[jbone108]

I'll try to keep this short.

Decided to start up the tractor today and run the disc over the garden sense the tractor had not been run in a couple of months due to winter.

heres what happened. tractor was run with no water in radiator/motor for no more then 10 min temp never got over normal running temp on guage "due to freeze plug popping out sometime this winter" the motor had a sudden loss of power then died also blow a puff of smoke out of PCV "i think anyway" it's the valve on top of the valve cover with a hose running off of it down to the below the starter. it also blew some oil out from around the valve cover gasket.

I was able to restart the motor and it came up to rpm and sound fine and ran fine. but it is still blowing gray smoke from the PCV tube. I pulled the valve cover all looked ok.

what do I need to do next? I know the first thing I need to do is replace the freeze plug. Is it ok to reuse the same freeze plug?

thanks for any input/help

 

[kenmac]

It's not a good thing to run hot. You may have gotten lucky. I would install a new freeze plug fill with the correct amount of anti freeze run the tractor & see what happens. If you did any damage you will know it .

 

[normde2001]

In addition to what kenmac said, I would also change the oil. Probably the reason the gauge did not show hot was that there was never any coolant in contact with the sensor to heat it up.

 

[waynokakid]

Sounds like you my have gotten lucky. I would definitely change the oil like normde says. And use a new freeze plug. Then fill it up with antifreeze mix and go to it.

 

[DannyV]

Finally able to see someone else out there besides me for a change that has a YM2200. I had mine given to me after my in law used the tractor with no water in radiator. He assumed it was useless. I then dug into it after chatting with some folk on here. Extra thanks to Mark777 with the instant message support..When I had got my yanmar it would start but had very low power and white smoke out the exhaust. Come to find out it was running off one of two cylinders. I then pulled the head and saw that it had a cracked head which leaked water into the one cylinder. I took the head to get repaired to a place called Mosley Machine Shop in downtown Houston and they did a very good job on making this head look brand new for 350.00. I then put it back together and so far not anything has gone wrong with that. I am not sure why oil would come out the pvc thingy since I didnt have that problem nor did I even know they had freeze plugs. Let us know what you do to get this problem fixxed since I just may have that problem one day with mine..Good luck

 

[LMTC]

The gauge cannot register proper temp without direct contact with coolant. A gauge not registering hot on an empty cooling system means nothing. Sorry.