A word of advice

[2wheelsadam]

If your splitting your tractor for any type of work have a close look at your coolant frost plug behind your flywheel. I took flywheel off and took in to be machined. I cleaned up bell housing and back of engine block gently with brake cleaner and a rag. Went out tonight to check something and noticed coolant running down back side of engine block. Yup frost plug rotted. Sure glad I noticed now. I would have been some ticked off if I got back together and then was leaking coolant. Hopefully this helps someone from splitting it twice.

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

Yup, I understand how glad you were to discover that before reassembling. It was easier to split the cub than a C, but still discouraging since it had been refurbished with a friends help a few months before. I spotted a couple of drops of antifreeze under the bell housing. They were so small I would not have noticed them except they landed where I had previously spilled some oil on the rough concrete of the old shed I used to work in. When I go it split and pulled the flywheel a close inspection revealed a very fine hair line crack running across the rear of the block from a little to the right of center to just under the edge of the oil pump. Luckily I know a retired machinist that repaired the crack, even to where it entered the oil pump assembly. I have been using it for around 15 years with no problems since.