[AT] She's smokin'--8N
Ronald L. Cook
rlcook at pionet.net
Fri Jul 22 08:25:17 PDT 2005
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...
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