[Farmall] Award

[Lane Freeman]

Karl,
I did the same thing with a 10-20 a few years back.  I had it sold an had a
guy coming to pick it up in a week so I thought I would get it in top shape
for him.  For an entire week I worked at that tractor but couldn't get it
running. About 2 hours before he was to pick it up I finally figured it out.
When he got there it started on the first crank as I told him. Talk about
sweating that one out.

Lane Freeman
New Tripoli, PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Olmstead" <olmstead at ridgenet.net>
To: "Farmall list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 3:25 PM
Subject: [Farmall] Award


> Well-known Farmall collector Karl Olmstead recently qualified for the
> official "I'm STUPID" award.  For reasons known only to Mr. Olmstead, he's
> kept this pretty quiet.  Here's his story:
>
> Remember that F-20 that I started for the first time in front of friends
on
> July 4th?  The one that I had lavished countless hours on getting it ready
> for its first run in several years?  And how it barely ran?  One of the
> steps in the preparation process was removing the rocker arm cover and
> hosing down the valves with carb cleaner, then blowing any sludge and dirt
> away with an air hose.  Then I oiled the rocker arms and the valves with a
> squirt can.  Put the cover back in place and went on to other chores.
>
> Last weekend I was fishing around in my carb cleaner bath and I found the
> priming tubes that belonged to the F-20.  I had removed them and put them
in
> the cleaner basket, but they rolled out and were lying on the bottom of
the
> carb cleaner bath.  Significant emotional event occurred; I whacked my
> forhead with my hand, yelled a few cuss words, and knew why the F-20
> wouldn't run right.  With those priming tubes missing, there are two
holes,
> nearly half an inch in diameter, directly into the intake ports in the
> cylinder head.  Talk about a massive vacuum leak!  It's a wonder that the
> engine ran at all.
>
> Maybe this weekend I'll try starting the tractor again.  I may have to
> short-circuit the oil filter; it's still on my workbench getting fixed.
All
> tractor work has come to a halt here; we're hitting 115 degrees every day,
> and my evaporative cooler in the workshop can't handle that.  Nor can I.
>
> My plan on the oil filter mount is to align my mill with the threaded hole
> that holds the filter cartridge cover housing in place, fill all the
warped
> areas of the mount with J-B Weld, and mill a new slot for the cover
housing
> to mate with.  My machinist buddy has convinced me that the most important
> feature on the filter mount is that threaded hole; everything else needs
to
> be parallel or perpendicular to it to prevent leaks.
>
> -Karl
>
>
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