[Farmall] Award

[Michael Miller]

Richard,

I bought a Super M carcass for parts.  I don't have any motor parts but I do 
have a radiator, gas tank and rear end/tranny parts.  You need any of it?  
My plan right now is to take off the wide front end, Hydraulic valve, and 
possibly rear wheels/centers/tires and sell the rest.  Wish I had the money 
to finish the guys project tho---the PO was going to put a V6 motor in it.  
The frame is stretched and I dont think it'd take much to drop an old 400M 
or something in there....

Karl lives in California :-)



Mike

>From: "Richard Pope" <popeman at verizon.net>
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>To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [Farmall] Award
>Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:44:51 -0700
>
>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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