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

[Ronald L. Cook]

Excellent advise there, Farmer.  Actually I thought all those Fords 
smoked.  My 2N does. <g>

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

>         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...