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I wish, we only have 6.8 acres. In Missouri we had a 44 acre reqistered Tree Farm. I wish we had enough to do the same here but we don't. Money and availability of land put us in this ag 2 subdivision. I would have preferred to have at least 10 acres. 10 acres in Ky makes you a farm and not subject to many of the zoning laws.
I don't know about Bob's sniffer but I don't think the little weep hole in mufflers do much good. I've had a few with weep holes and they lasted no longer than those without. Now days they use steel alloy that doesn't rust very much. In fact my 2003 Ranger still has the original exhaust system and it's still in real good shape. I don't think the muffler has a weep hole. I wonder if they still put them in the mufflers now.
You can remove the solenoid and take it apart. The plunger in the solenoid may be dirty or rusty. Clean the bore and the plunger and put a very thin film of high temp wheel bearing grease on the plunger and in the bore. By thin film I mean it should just feel greasy not look greasy. All you want it for it to move freely and not get corroded or stuck again.
I took my starter apart and cleaned and lubed it shortly after I bought it. The starter was dirty and dry, no lube at all. Yours probably needs the same thing done to it.
First, a diesel doesn't need electricity to start, the switch only energizes the other electrical devices. Compression is what fires the engine off.
If you jump across the two large solenoid terminals all your doing is making the starter motor rotate. To engage the bendix into the flywheel so the starter motor turns the engine you have to jump a hot wire to the small terminal on the solenoid. If the starter doesn't engage the flywheel and spin the engine your starter is defective.
Since you said when you jumped the terminals and the starter motor spun then that part is working. If when you jump a hot wire to the small stud on the starter solenoid and the starter doesn't turn the engine over and doesn't even spin the starter then you probably have a defective starter solenoid.
I have a 254 and there is no drain hole in the exhaust manifold or elbow on mine. The elbow comes straight out of the exhaust manifold and goes up to connect to the muffler and exh. pipe. My exhaust pipe has a bend with a 90 deg cut to allegedly keep the water out. I keep my tractor in a pole barn but if I kept it outside I would cut the pipe off and put a flapper cap on it.
Yes, more to go. Here's a photo of how the area in the other photo looks like now. I will leave two grown up areas for the critters to live in but I will still have to control the trees somehow in those areas. I may end up mowing the underbrush every year all over the hillside just to keep control of it.
I'm not sure you have a blown seal. If you did I think there would be more extra oil in the pan than one quart. Also, it may be that only the mounting gasket is leaking.
