How-to Check and Add Oil to a Farmall Tractor

In this brief video, I show you were to check an fill the oil on your antique Farmall Tractor -- also where the drain plug is as well as the oil filter. Some of the stuff is pretty obvious, but checking the oil level may be difficult for someone who has never worked with antique tractors.

Here are some more videos on the Farmall A for those who are interested:

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[deepsouth-piddlin]

thanks man, I actually started to work on my uncles Farmall model A, about two days ago and it has been sitting for about 20 years under a shed and got it running but needed to fill it with oil and when i found your video it has helped me thanks, and I, SUBSCRIBED TO YOUR CHANNEL!!!

[jblfd]

Short, simple and direct. Thank you!!

[davewurth]

Thank you for this! It's exactly the way I remember my dad showing me when I was about 10 or 11. It's good to have confirmation of what I remember Dad showing me back in the day.

[johnrosier]

Thanks. It’s great to still use these old beasts to get some work done.

[mytech]

For gasoline engines the oil is supposed to be topped up to the upper petcock at the end of every full work day. The lower petcock is actually used for distillate engines which have substantial oil dilution from the low grade fuel, at the end of a work day with distillate you drain the oil to the lower petcock then refill to the upper. Distillate engines also tend to use one sae grade thicker oil for a given outside temperature because of the fuel dilution. (A distillate engine is not a diesel engine.)

[cwmoore]

Thanks for the info. I just inherited my Grandfather's old Farmall SA and couldn't figure it out

[juliogarciagarcialasienra]

Very useful information, thank you very much for this.

[zanenorth]

Thanks! My parents are getting some tractors from a relative who sadly passed away, and I wanted to know some stuff about the tractor i was gonna be using. A Farmall B.

[hurricane]

Thank you sir for the video. I am about to try to start my my wife's late grandfather's Farmall and could not figure out how to check the oil, but I did see those petcocks but didn't know what they were

[Farmer]

Hi fantastic video, i have an International AW6 with H4 Magneto it
usually starts ok but today i went to start it the starter spun motor
over then it would go bang through the exhaust won't start any
suggestions what it could be.

[russellenderle]

How do you replace the oil level petcocks ? Mine are so worn out .

[jasonwhitler]

A good source of information about this stuff is yesterdaystractors.com. People on the forum there are pretty helpful.