[AJD] 1950 AR Manifold Snag...

[Chris C]

    I got home from San Diego early this morning,  and
when it was not raining when I woke up,  there was
only one thing to do,  go play with the tractors..

     I wanted to finish plumbing the air cleaner into
the 1950 AR to see if my carb would run right with
everything hooked up.  I finally  broke down and went
to JD to get the proper 2 5/8" hose I needed to
connect the elbow from the carb to the air cleaner. 
But,  the elbow would not fit,  it hits hard against
the air cleaner with the top bolt hole (elbow to carb)
about 1/4 inch off.  

     Two things are different from when the tractor
was together (I think,  the motor was disassembled
with I bought it)  I changed from a DLTX-72 to a 71, 
and I put an aftermarket manifold on it,  as there was
not one with it.

      I have heard many bad things about aftermarket
manifolds,  true,  it does not look exactly like the
original,  but when you don't have one,  and deere
can't see you one,  that repro looks pretty nice...  I
used one on a 1948 A and it worked great!  The only
thing I can figure is that the reproduction manifold
'looks' like it is a little 'bigger' than an original.
 By bigger I mean that it appears that maybe the
flange that the carb bolts up to is thicker,  and
maybe protrudes a little further twords the radiator
than the original as well.  This made no different on
the A,  but apparently the tolerances are a little
closer under the AR hood.  I have an original manifold
being repaired that I should be able to pick up
thursday on my way home from work,  so I hope that
this solves my problems.  I really didn't want to have
to tear the tractor down that far again just yet,  but
those are the breaks I guess. I'll just put that
reproduction manifold on the other 48 A that I was
planning on putting the repaired mainfold on.

                         Chris

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