[Farmall] Award

[Mike Schmudlach]

Last week it hit 100 when I was in Montana  and at RPRU it kept nudging
close to 100.
Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob" <69barracuda at mchsi.com>
To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Farmall] Award


> Hehe...I live a stones throw from Karl in Ridgecrest...yesterday at the
> airfeild on base it was 117 at 6 pm....we just got home from Lancaster
> and at 103 it feels cool!
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> Rob
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> '69 Plymouth Barracuda Fastback 318 auto
> '68 Plymouth Barracuda Fastback /6 auto
> '69 Dart 270 4dr 360 auto
> '05 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited
> '03 GMC Savanah 3500
> '47 Farmall H
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> Richard Pope wrote:
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> > Karl:
> >
> > I'm brand new to this list and this is my first post.  That's an
> > interesting story about your F-20.  I'm surprised it ran at all.
> >
> > I recently purchased my first ever tractor, a 1953 Farmall Super M.
> > The thing runs great and I've used it on our property to pull out
> > Juniper stumps and also drag the weeds.  We live in the High Desert in
> > Southern California and have lots of tumbleweeds.  I need a few misc.
> > parts before I start to restore the tractor.  Where is a good source
> > for Super M parts?
> >
> > Where do you live that's hitting 115 degrees every day?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard Pope
> > Apple Valley, CA
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Olmstead"
> > <olmstead at ridgenet.net>
> > To: "Farmall list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:25 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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