So yesterday I towed home the new tractor in a 12x6x6 enclosed aluminum trailer. The 25 miles unloaded and 23 miles loaded, the temp on the gauge got towards the hot side of things really quick but doing the speed limit helped.

Today I was fixing wiring and remembered that for a light load, it got pretty hot. Popped the radiator cap and it is foamy and looking like chocolate milk. The oil on the dipstick looks good, no funny smells, and still the same level. The coolant how ever is just above the tubes in the radiator...

So, oil cooler or head gasket? Thinking I should replace both...

 

When I had head gasket problems, it leaked externally. My bet is oil cooler needs replacing.

 

How does the tranny fluid look the oil could be coming from that also. That would not explain the over heat situation though.

 

Manual trans, Mopar.

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Check the oil cooler first. Easier to replace than the head gasket if it is in fact the cooler.

 

Sorry about that I wasn't thinking.

 

Here is a video I made. My speaker is crap so you cant hear it correctly but when the coolant gets sucked down, I was playing with the throttle.

What do you guys think? Cooler or HG?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESP0S_nylRs

 

Looks like mine did when my oil cooler gaskets shot the crap. My cooler was fine, just the gaskets were rotted away.

 

So what was the fix?

 

Headgasket.

Got a nice gasket set from Mumau Diesel.