[AJD] 1952 B Questions

[greg at theoldtractorcompany.com]

Chris
Years ago, one of our customers was working on an unstyled B. We sold a carb kit. Still had 
problems. Sold him more parts and later still more parts, still not running right. He had told 
me it had the stock carb on it.
Later that year I had the chance to see this tractor at a local pull at our fair. Well I found 
our problem immediately. His 1935 B had a brass DLTX3 model D carb on it. It did the same 
thing, ran after a fashion but ran super rich. Too much carb for the B.

Late in the two cylinder's life, Deere adopted three carbs for service. If you wanted a carb 
for a model A,D,or G you got one carb. If you needed one for a B or an H you got another. 
Finally there was one dual throat carb for all late two cylinder applications. I always took 
my cue from this and figured Deere knew what they were doing. We have had several model H's 
through here with B carbs on them although they could have been the later replacement carb.

We'll see what everyone else thinks but I think it's likely too large for the B

Other than that, what a surprise!

Just for laughs, I'll take a run through our tires as I know we used to have some Traction 
Torques here but they are probably a different size.

Greg



Greg Stephen
The Old Tractor Company
Stephen Equipment Company
PO Box 709
Franktown, CO 80116
303-663-5246
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On Fri Aug 11 17:46 , Chris C <jdnutinwa at yahoo.com> sent:

>
>  I bought a 1952B for parts about 5 months ago now. 
>I really only wanted the one new rear tire in it. 
>(Goodyear Tracation Torque 12.4 - 38)   As it turns
>out I can't match up the tire as Goodyear no longer
>makes it..  
>
>  Anyway,  the guy I bought the B from bought it at an
>auction with re-selling in mind.  I paid $500 for it. 
>It turned over,  but the carb was not workable and it
>had a top mounted starter adaptation and that didn't
>work so well either.  The exaust had been routed to a
>glass pack type muffler outside of the hood.  The
>throttle had been moved to the shutter control,  the
>throttle lever was broken off.  
>
>   Much to my suprise it started today.  I installed
>the correct starter underneath the tractor,  a DLTX-71
>that I have as a spare for my A's,  and a Wico C mag
>that I had on the shelf as a spare.   I also had to
>build a fuel line but it fired the 2nd turn.
>
>    It surges pretty badly and smokes black (too rich)
>smoke.  
>
>     My questions,  I heard people say that a DLTX-71
>will run fine on a B,  I can easily blame this on
>running poorly on the linkage and other issues that
>still need to be worked out,  but I would like to hear
>from someone that runs a different carb on a B,  It
>should have a DLTX-67.
>
>      Has anyone disassembled the steeing tower with
>the levers in it?  It looks like a royal pain to get
>all that stuff out and freed up.  I have another tower
>with a good lever in it,  but the bottom lever is
>broken,  so I am planning to take the good lower lever
>off of the current one and put it on my spare.  But
>everything on the spare is froze up solid..
>
>        Thanks for the help!
>
>             Chris
>
>Chris Carl
>Camano Island, Washington
> 
>Collector of:
>John Deere
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