[AT] New Old Tractor Purchase, was Plowing in Ohio/Long

[Richard Fink Sr]

Nice looking tractor Al. Good find and good luck on making that 
decision. To KEEP or to GO.
R Fink
PA



At 08:16 PM 9/17/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>Charlie, here's a picture one the way home at a Wendy's, I believe we
>were near Richmond.
>
>http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1030/1389121391_fa9345cb07.jpg
>
>I'll summarize by posting what I copied/pasted from the Red Power Forum.
>
>I found it on Ebay, 5 hrs. away in King George, VA. We had a fun trip.
>This was the longest I have ever pulled my trailer and it did great.  (I
>forgot to grease the wheel bearings!  It did ok though.)
>
>
>The 6 volt charging system WORKS! You have to give it a little RPM but
>it does indeed appear to be charging the battery.... one headlight still
>works. The rear light is not original and appears to have one of the old
>pancake style sealed beam lights wedged in there.
>
>It very much has the "Sherwin Williams Restoration" going on. Paint
>right over old grease/dirt in many places. The tin looks pretty good
>though. Not all beat up. From 50 feet away, it looks nice.
>
>The set screw holding the RH steering arm is in bad shape--right much
>flop, but the steering gear itself is pretty tight. LH tie rod looks a
>little tweaked.
>
>It has the newer ZENITH carb. A little bit-a choke and the little booger
>fires right up. It has a definate miss though, one cylinder sounds plumb
>dead. My heart sank to my stomach the first time I heard it run.  But, I
>think/hope the miss is a bad plug, bad plug wire, needs a tuneup, etc.
>It starts up and runs too good to have more serious trouble--I hope.  In
>other words, I hope I haven't bought myself a paperweight.....  It has
>been changed over to IH distributor ignition--no magneto.
>
>The touch control wouldn't work this evening and when I checked it, it
>was way low on fluid--I found that there's a pinhole leak on the
>pressure line where it's soldered (?) to the block which bolts to the
>back of the hyd. pump. I added a little fluid and the system works fine
>with no load. So I gotta get that brazed. My first fear was the pump was
>bad and pumping Hy-Tran into the engine. That doesn't seem to be
>happening but I'll have to keep it watched.
>
>The brakes are good enough I can stall it in any gear. (OR should that
>be: the engine's in such bad shape I can stall it in any gear?  Again, I
>hope it ain't a paperweight.....  )
>
>Seems to smoke just a touch at startup or when I "loaded" it with the
>brakes. Maybe that's just because it hasn't been run much---or see
>above!
>
>OH--the oil gauge--it's the older gauge with the IHC emblem on the face
>instead of the IH. Did any Cub's ever have that gauge? From the looks of
>things it's a '49 by the S/N but I gotta go look if it's early, late, or
>whatever. Most of the codes on it are late '48 that I have looked at so
>far.
>
>It has Goodyear tires all the way around. One front is a replacement,
>but I am suspicious that the other three may be original. If not, they
>are way-old. Wish they had some sorta date code I could read.
>
>In general, I wish this tractor could talk and tell me what it's seen
>and done. As I said, all the mounting holes except the ones for the
>drawbar have cork in them, except also for the two lower ones on the
>clutch housing. I wonder if it didn't do a lot of sicklebar mowing or
>belt work. It has the belt pulley attachment on it, but the flat pulley
>is gone--it has the sicklebar mower pulley (I think) on it instead. Cubs
>around here cultivated, cultivated, cultivated. And put out lots of
>fertilizer at the same time. This one doesn't appear to have done as
>much as that. I got it as a bare tractor--no implements, not even a
>drawbar.
>
>I have to confess: I bought it with the idea of possibly re-selling it
>for a modest "profit." It's beginning to grow on me though  ...and the
>seat is actually very comfortable....
>
>Al
>
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>[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
>Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 9:52 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] Plowing in Ohio/Long
>
>Al, give us an update.  How was the trip, was the Cub as advertised,
>etc.?
>
>Charlie
>
>
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