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

[John Wilkens]

Well, the tractor was used for raking hay for years but it hasn't worked 
much for several years.  I bought it from my neighbor to putter with--and 
possibly sell later if it works OK.  Think I'll try the oil change (any 
suggestions for oil, additives, etc.?) first.  About the only work I will 
have for it to do though is raking my alfalfa second cutting.  Not very 
hard work.   Might try the leakdown test Phil suggested.  I have a good 
diesel engine compression gauge but not sure how to crank and hold the 
engine at top dead center on a cylinder.  Use a hand crank?    Thanks all 
for your suggestions.   John W.




At 07:38 AM 07/22/2005, you wrote:
>         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
>
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