HOW TO USE ENGINE RELEASE
Just identify your engine type and follow the link for full instructions.
Dismantling an Engine for Rebuild
Automotive engines
Motorcycles:
two-stroke
Motorcycles:
four-stroke
Cars
and light trucks: Gas-powered
Cars
and light trucks: Diesel-powered
ATVs,
skidoos etc.: two-stroke
ATVs,
skidoos etc.: four-stroke
Home and garden equipment
Our advice applies to all forms of engine-powered home and garden equipment. This includes:
Lawn
mowers
Lawn
tractors
Leaf
blowers
Garden
tillers
Edgers
and trimmers
Chippers,
shredders and mulchers
Portable
compressors
Chainsaws
Snowblowers
Pressure
washers
Generators
Click any of the above links and use the information there to identify your machinery's engine type. There are two types. The approach differs depending on whether your machine has a type 1 or type 2 engine.
Agriculture equipment
Agriculture equipment falls into three categories. Identify your engine type and click the link below to read instructions on using Engine Release to free your seized engine.
Agricultural
Diesel engines
Agricultural
Gas engines
John
Deere horizontal engines
Marine engines
We have split our coverage into three areas: two-stroke outboard motors, four-stroke outboard motors and inboard Gas or Diesel engines. Click the links for full instructions on using Engine Release to free seized-up marine engines.
Two-stroke
outboard motors
Four-stroke
outboard boat motors
Inboard
Gas marine engines
Diesel marine engines
Industrial engines
We will be happy to advise on an individual case-by-case basis for industrial engines.Please contact us with your requirements by clicking here.
John Deere tractor engines which have seized can be easily recovered using Engine Release
John Deere tractor engines can seize during storage or long periods of disuse. The best treatment for seized John Deere tractor engines is Engine Release. It even works on antique John Deere tractors!
These instructions are for any agriculture machinery with horizontal John Deere engines.
John Deere tractor engines: instructions
This page provides instructions for using Engine Release to free seized John Deere tractor engines or other John Deere equipment. It works, OR YOUR MONEY BACK. Click here for more about our no-quibble return policy.
VERY IMPORTANT!
Once you have read these instructions, if technical support is required with your project please email us for advice, we will reply ASAP.
Warning: Read safety warnings on the Engine Release container before continuing. Click here to read the safety information online BEFORE treating John Deere tractor engines with Engine Release.
Engine release will damage paint finishes.
Preparing your engine for an Engine Release treatment
Most farm equipment with John Deere tractor engines have vertical exhausts. If you think your engine seized because rainwater got into your engine by the exhaust pipe, remove your engine’s injectors.
It's a good idea to identify them with either a numbered tag or tape so as not to mix them up when you re-install them.
To empty out the flooded cylinders, purchase a large plastic turkey baster and about 24" of clear plastic hose that will tightly push fit over the end of the baister and still have a small enough out side diameter to pass through your injector holes.
Now one by one check your cylinders for water using the baster. Also if you have failed to free up your engine previously using Mystery Oil, vinegar, water, ATF, diesel fuel, WD40 or others, it's important to remove all traces of the above with your baster so as not to dilute the Engine Release you inject into your engine.
It's a good idea not to try and force more hose into the injector hole than is required to just touch the top of the piston so you can remove the majority of the water you may find. Pushing more hose into the cylinder than is required will just force the end of the hose to curl up in the air, not touching the water and defeating the purpose of this exercise.
Once completed, you can re-install your injectors.If your engine seized because you have not used the farm equipment for a while, it was stored indoors or under cover and you are sure only airborne humidity entered your engine, don't bother with the turkey baster.
To treat your John Deere tractor engine's cylinders with Engine Release, slack the ajustments on any valves that are opened so they are closed, remove the intake manifold from the head of the engine and open the compression releases for both cylinders.
Pour enough Engine Release down both intake ports until they fill up to the top. Let Engine Release soak in for a week at least, the longer the better..
You are now ready to free up your engine. Before continuing adjust your valves.
Cover all the intake ports with rags to catch the Engine Release which will be blown out of the engine when you free it up. WARNING: Keep your face away from this area when freeing your engine.
Once your engine is freed up and turning freely, you can re-install your intake manifold and prepare the engine for starting in your regular way.
Make sure
you have enough clean fresh fuel to start and run
your engine for 5-10 minutes.
Start your engine, let it run at a slow
idle for 5-10 minutes then stop it, change your oil and filters.
Now
is a good time to give the exterior of your engine a shampoo with warm
water and detergent to remove any Engine Release that may have spilled
onto your engine or rubber hoses. Engine
Release can damage paint
finishes and rubber. Now you are good to go.
Horizontal gas engines should be treated in the same way valve adjustment should be slacked so all valves are closed, cylinders should be over filled and old plugs used to keep the Engine Release in the cylinders, once treatment is completed remove plugs follow the above instruction, we like impact on flywheel nut best.