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look at your coolant see if it has oil at the top ,maybe look with the cap off and see if there is to much turbulance in the radiator with the engine running.if you can do a compression test,it is a pain but maybe just a head gasket,better than the other things it might be.was the head retorqued after 50 hrs? was there a lot of metal in the oil when you changed it?
I think that the reusal of the cylinder head bolts would be ok ,no difference that I know of reusing the head bolts than retorqueing the head. If there is any hard junk on them I would be careful and run a tap in the block and a die on the bolts,but make sure that when you do this that there is no unusal amount of metal being taken off.Stop if there is,some difference in thread pitching I have seen.Though mostly threads are cut to loose.
you can always jack it up carefully on heavy jackstands and engage the 4 wheel with the engine not running but in gear and see what wheels are engaged. you could also press the diff.lock and check it.
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well I am confused, I topped off all the levels except the one hub that was low.I added oil to that side and oil came to the top at the hub but did not run at the closest axle level plug.So I bushhogged 5 acres came back to look at it and when I pulled the plug on the side that was in question all the levels were right.But I heard some pressure build up when I removed the plug ,so I thought that the vent plug was plugged,which it had a problem,the spring was to long and would not collapse enough to let out air.but when I removed the plug for the level on that side it was overfull,could the gear cluster act like a pump and transfer oil from one side to the other?Is there a spillway that holds oil from moving freelly from one side to another?I am about ready to drink to many beers.
I wouldnt think so diesels do not have manf. vac. as gas engines. the atl. I think drives a vac.pump to provide an vac. in the crankcase for emissions.but my tractors do not have this setup .hopefully someone will chime in who has a newer model.
well I took the sight windows out luckly they were 3/8 pipe thread ,I used a 3/8 x 1/8 brass reducer bushing and a 1/8 pipe plug, the 1/8 inch plug is about the same size as the window was ,they are so small I can not see how they could be any use.so next I will fill the side that is lossing oil to see if the axle starts to overfill.will get back later on.
I looked at it alittle harder and it has 2 sight windows on the axle, one on each end and on opposite sides.it seems that it is over full I will suction some out. nowhere I seen in the operators manual it mentioned them.But it looks that there must be a internal seal that is between the hub and axle that is weeping.there is no oil on the ground.
