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Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

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Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby ctltmp » Mon Sep 12, 2016 6:46 am

I know that nobody wants to hear the W word yet but I am a planner so here goes........

Some of you may already know from my posts, I've done a fresh rebuild on the engine with maybe about 1/2 hr. run in time on it. My plans were to do the rebuild get things running just right and then strip everything back down for paint prep. I still have a few little odds and ends to button up, and a lot of prep work before I can paint. I do not think that I will get the cub painted before cold weather settles in (unless we have a bunch of good weather late) so things will sit without running until the paint is done in the spring.

What suggestions do you have for wintering the cub over? Squirt a little oil in the plug holes and turn it over by hand now and then? The anti freeze is drained and radiator is pulled off, but is was good 50/50 mix when I ran it. I just want to be 100% sure that I don't have a problem come spring. Finally have things running tip-top and I would like everything to stay like that come time to start it the next time.

Any advice would be of help. Thanks in advance.
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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby Urbish » Mon Sep 12, 2016 7:19 am

Will it be out in the cold or in a climate controlled space? I run my Cub all winter plowing snow, so I don't have much in the way of advice for you. For what it's worth, my Farmall B sat in a unheated pole barn without being started or even turned over for 11 years. I pulled it out this summer, poured some gas in, and it started on the 3rd crank. No smoke and runs like a champ!
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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby ctltmp » Mon Sep 12, 2016 7:31 am

I don't keep the building heated all the time, only heat it when I'm out there working so it will be in 0 or -0 temperatures.
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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby Don McCombs » Mon Sep 12, 2016 7:57 am

I would have someone hand crank the engine while you spray fogging oil in each of the cylinders.
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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby Eugene » Mon Sep 12, 2016 7:57 am

Radiator off, means hood/fuel tank removed. Hand crank the engine several complete revolutions every month.

If you think the tractor will be setting for more than 2 or 3 months, block down the clutch pedal. Cover the tractor's exhaust. Close the carburetor's choke.

Remove the battery and put on a battery maintainer.
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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby LRiddle » Mon Sep 12, 2016 8:50 am

block down the clutch pedal


Why is that? To keep the parts from sticking?
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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby Urbish » Mon Sep 12, 2016 9:09 am

LRiddle wrote:
block down the clutch pedal


Why is that? To keep the parts from sticking?


Keeps the clutch from rusting itself to the pressure plate and the flywheel. Just be cautioned that the clutch will be 'grabby' initially when you fire it up in the spring.

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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby Eugene » Mon Sep 12, 2016 9:11 am

LRiddle wrote:
block down the clutch pedal
Why is that? To keep the parts from sticking?
Yes.

For long term storage, make sure tractor will not start. Clutch pedal depressed, transmission in gear, crank over the engine. The idea is to keep the clutch disk from adhering to the pressure plate.

A small measure to hopefully eliminate the necessity of splitting the tractor to free up the clutch.
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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby ctltmp » Mon Sep 12, 2016 10:46 am

Boy, lots of stuff I wouldn't have thought. The carb will probably be off, so I can block off the intake hole. I do have to ask, what the heck is fogging oil? Do I know it by another name or is it just shooting oil through a mister?
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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby Urbish » Mon Sep 12, 2016 10:51 am

Sta-Bil makes one variety. A can is $4 at Wal-Mart. Many auto parts stores carry it too.
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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby Slim140 » Mon Sep 12, 2016 11:14 am

I went to church with a guy who had a 140 parked in his shed for a couple years and the clutch got stuck in it. He ask me to fix it, I cranked it in reverse and backed it to the trailer, cut it off and then cranked it in 1st and pulled it on the trailer. I got to thinking about it and didn't really want to split it if I didn't have to so I sprayed a can of WD-40 up in the clutch area and went and cultivated about 4 rows of corn and it freed up. Works great some years later now. WD-40 isn't really good for anything anyway except for squeaky hinges so I figured it wouldn't hurt the clutch.
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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby ScottyD'sdad » Mon Sep 12, 2016 11:33 am

Lubricating a friction surface is not a good idea. A few drops of brake fluid, from a bad wheel cylinder, and you're not stopping. On the clutch, you're not going!
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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby Slim140 » Mon Sep 12, 2016 11:37 am

ScottyD'sdad wrote:Lubricating a friction surface is not a good idea. A few drops of brake fluid, from a bad wheel cylinder, and you're not stopping. On the clutch, you're not going!
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I didn't suggest doing it, I just said it worked for me :lol: WD-40 isn't what it used to be! I was looking at a split and had nothing to lose, it for real was stuck. It freed up and is still working today and that was 6+ years ago. A wheel cylinder, if the master cylinder has fluid in it is constantly getting fresh fluid. What I did was a one shot deal and the heat in there I am sure got rid of the WD-40.
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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby LRiddle » Mon Sep 12, 2016 11:41 am

Lol. I was going to suggest greasing the flywheel.
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Re: Cub Preparation For Winter Storage

Postby ctltmp » Mon Sep 12, 2016 12:21 pm

Already did that. Right after I replaced the radiator bearings..........

Haha!
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