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Keith True · 05-17-2018, 05:20 PM

Sitting in the tractor the tubes won't leak out the front.The water will run into the rear.Most of the time you can find the leak from just the weight of the water in the block.If you sit and watch you won't find it.Leave it overnight and you will see a seep at the leak spot.How did you check the tubes before you put the head on?You won't see those leaks by just looking,and if you had it magnafluxed they had to clean the casting enough for the process.A leak at a joint won't show up as a crack,just as the joint of two different metals.You really don't want to know what I would do with the waterglass,but it wouldn't be in a zero pressure cooling system in a horizontal two cylinder John Deere.

05-17-2018, 05:20 PM	#9
Keith True Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Epping N.H. Posts: 2,987	Re: The right way to use waterglass Sitting in the tractor the tubes won't leak out the front.The water will run into the rear.Most of the time you can find the leak from just the weight of the water in the block.If you sit and watch you won't find it.Leave it overnight and you will see a seep at the leak spot.How did you check the tubes before you put the head on?You won't see those leaks by just looking,and if you had it magnafluxed they had to clean the casting enough for the process.A leak at a joint won't show up as a crack,just as the joint of two different metals.You really don't want to know what I would do with the waterglass,but it wouldn't be in a zero pressure cooling system in a horizontal two cylinder John Deere.