[AT] Rationale for firing orders

[Robinson]

charlie hill wrote:

> I think that nothing  nothing has helped the popularity of JD's about as
> much as it has Harley Davidson.  And that is a good bit.
> 
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "George Willer" <gwill at toast.net>

> 
> 
> 
>>Frobl,
>>
>>Actually, your J.D. is neither.  I'm not sure of the correct firing order,
>>but it is either 1-2- nothin'-nothin', or 2-1-nothin'- nothin'.  If you
>>listen carefully to the exhaust you can even hear the nothin'-nothin'
> 
> part.
> 
>>I think of it as firing disorder!  I wonder If they would have as
> 
> successful
> 
>>a collector tractor if they had eliminated the twist in the crankshaft to
>>make them even firing, or built the other half of the engine?  After all,
>>the Field Marshall and Lantz are hits at shows when they jump around at
>>idle.
>>
>>Most other early tractor makers actually had clever engineers that
> 
> designed
> 
>>their engines with each half as a mirror image of the other, so the
> 
> engines
> 
>>could run as they should.  :-)
>>
>>George Willer




	It is past 4:30 PM here and I still haven't seen your message George 
except as quoted on Charlie's message. Not a surprise... I still plan to 
bail out on my ISP's anti-spam system. I'm losing a lot of mail.
	I have several 4 cylinder tractors here now that have a firing order of 
nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing...   ;-)   I hope to improve some of 
those this year.
	

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"farmer"

Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net