[AT] Was Serious Restoration Now Power King

[Herbert Metz]

Larry
What caused Power Kings demise?
I never did have a PK but they had a very good dealer in Bloomington, IN; 
someone had traded in a GT14 Wheelhorse for a PK, needed better ground 
clearance.   I still have that Wheelhorse.
Herb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:45 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] Was Serious Restoration Now philosophy


> ECO's (engineering change orders) will absolutely make you tear your
> hair out in a restoration or even on a simple repair of currently
> stocked equipment.  I bought a replacement U-joint for the PTO on my
> Kubota tractor.  Nobody had a record of the fact that the company had
> changed the sizes of the bearings.  Bottom line: a new U-joint required
> two new yokes.
>
> On the Power King tractors I love and work on all the time, an ECO came
> along almost at the end of the company's existence that requires you to
> reverse the positions of the clutch plates in the drive line.  Bottom
> line: you have to replace all the plates (even though only one of them
> is bad) and they have to be assembled differently than when you take the
> assembly apart.  That's not an easy concept to get across to all the
> collectors.
>
> Larry