[AT] Farmall 350/300

[Lane Freeman]

If its going to Wisconsin someone must have really wanted it bad.  I hope
they know a lot of the original hardware is gone; still in my garage.  It
was converted over to be a good work tractor and a lot of the original gear
was swapped out for modern more reliable and easily serviceable parts, ie,
all spin on fuel and oil filters.  I should have sold this guy the one I
sold at Wolgemuths at Thanksgiving.  100% original and in excellent
condition with IH widefront.  I worked on it all last summer to get it ready
for the guy who sold this one and then after it was ready he backed out and
bought a 450, the same week I was supposed to deliver it(I think that one
for sale now too).  I'm holding a FH plow for the same guy for 6 months now
but he said he can't come up with the money, but he tells me to please hold
it 'cause he still wants it, although he's now looking at 806's.   Sorry for
the rant but this guy just drives me crazy!!!!

Anyway, back to your original question about 350's.  They are fairly common
it our neck of the woods, but not as common as H's of course.  Diesels are
more rare but I've owned three different ones in the last 5 years so they
are around.  I still have 350D Utility and a 350D Hi-Utility neither of
which run very goodat the present time.  They are prone to hard starting and
can be very expensive to fix if you have a problem. It's easy to drop $1000
on an injection pump rebuild and injectors are expensive too.  If everything
is tuned up correctly they can be nice tractors to work with.  Another
problem I came across is trying to keep the fuel system sealed up. They leak
a lot and have many places to leak from; this was the main eason for the
spin on fuel filters on the 350D on YT Mag.

As far as the TA's, I think there have been some good explanations so far.
They aren't all that expensive anymore if you can do the install yourself.
I think a rebuilt TA can be had for about $500 from places like Leamans
Tractor in WillowStreet, PA (or maybe your local IH Dealer - Eckroth's)but
the labor will run about $1000 for the install.  I just had one put in one
of my SMTAD's and I think the total bill was around $1500.

Lane Freeman


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LeRoy Price III" <leroy_price3 at hotmail.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Farmall 350/300


> Lane,
>
> Just to let you know its going to Wisconsin.
>
> Could you comment on the other questions?
>
> LeRoy
>
>
> >From: "Lane Freeman" <lmfree at ptd.net>
> >Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> ><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >Subject: Re: [AT] Farmall 350/300
> >Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 07:16:28 -0500
> >
> >Be glad you missed it,  most of the add is BS.  How do I know?  It was my
> >tractor in 2001, that's not to say its not a decent work tractor.  Enough
> >said without going into the details!
> >
> >Lane
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "LeRoy Price III" <leroy_price3 at hotmail.com>
> >To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:34 PM
> >Subject: [AT] Farmall 350/300
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Missed a nice Farmall 350D on YTMag would have been nice.  It seems
that
> >the
> > > 300s
> > > are pretty easy to come by or at least I see them for sale every so
> >often.
> > > What about
> > > the 350s though, Hard to find?   More sought after?
> > >
> > >
>
>http://www.tractorshed.com/cgi-bin/photoads/classifieds.cgi?search_and_disp
lay_db_button=on&db_id=61684&query=retrieval
> > >
> > > Now the real question, TAs, don't know a thing about them but I get
the
> > > impression
> > > that they are costly to fix.  Why or am I wrong?
> > >
> > > I know TA is Torque Amplifier.
> > >
> > > LeRoy
> > >
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