[AT] She's smokin'--8N

[Indiana Robinson]

	Has it been working hard or hardly working? If the latter I would likely try an oil and 
filter change (with quality oil), a 2 - 14" plow and about 5 acres of ground...   :-)   I 
have not been able to follow the list closely lately, is this a new acquisition or one 
you have owned for a while? I can't see the rings being all that bad if it will pump 100# 
of compression at cranking speeds. Is this a tractor you want to use, show, work hard or 
just putter with? 
	A lot depends on if it is one tractor you want to fix up near perfectly or if it is one 
of several that you use a bit... If one of several it can get painful ($$$) just jumping 
in and plowing all new parts into several tractors without consideration of needs. A lot 
of guys have a lot more money to dump into parts than I do. There are over a dozen old 
tractors here on this farm and the cost of taking the "put all new innards in it" 
approach to all of them would be astronomical. Nice? Yes. Practical? No...

-- 
"farmer", Esquire
At Hewick Midwest
      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...

Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. In America 100 
years 
before the revolution.


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net