[AT] Cockshutt report

[Ricky Prescott]

Sounds like you have something in your fuel input line coming from the tank.
I have had this problem many times and always there is rust in the fuel
strainer.  Ricky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 5:20 PM
Subject: [AT] Cockshutt report


> The wind finally let up on the weekend so even though it was still -20 by
> day it still felt relatively comfortable working outside. I fired up the
50
> yesterday to run a few bales through the hammer mill and it worked great.
No
> sign of any damage from its running short of oil in the valve train for
who
> knows how long. I'm doing a coolant flush on it now. Seems to be a lot of
> sludge in the block on this tractor.
> The 40 was not quite so successful. I changed the suspect coil to see if
it
> would cure the cutting out problem under load. I'd have to say it made no
> difference at all. Tractor still started up good but would not keep
running
> without choke until I adjusted the load needle on the carb again. After a
> long warm up I tried some snow blowing. It ran good for about 5 minutes
and
> then began cutting out every time I got the snow blower running full.
Choke
> helped but too much would cut the rpm while not enough just let the engine
> die. A couple of times I was too slow on the chke button and the engine
did
> die. Heres where it gets interesting. After the engine re-starts it will
> work good for a few minutes until it seemingly runs short of fuel again
and
> I have to go through the same choking procedure.
> I managed to get the driveway cleared and re-parked the tractor in the
shed
> in hopes of trying a different carburetor. I did find the spare Zenith
> carburetor but I'll have to take it apart to check it out for missing
parts
> or other problems.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
> http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
>
>
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