[AT] Rationale for firing orders

[charlie hill]

I have a few of those too Farmer.  I have one that the head is off of and
covered up with a board.  Every now and then I have to bail it out and pour
a little pentrating oil in.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Rationale for firing orders


> 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.
>
>
> -- 
>
>
>
> "farmer"
>
> Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
>
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