[Farmall] Award

[Rob]

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!

Rob

'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


'67-'69 Barracuda Owners Group
MVPA #17365
Ridgecrest Ca.
Ebay ID "m50a1ontos"







Richard Pope wrote:

> 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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