[AT] Tractor Question - 420 JD

charlie hill chill8 at suddenlink.net
Fri Aug 8 05:01:13 PDT 2008


Propane was the old propellant in WD40.  You can use an unlit propane torch 
and do the same thing.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lew Best" <bee_keeper at earthlink.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor Question - 420 JD


> Don't know if it'll still work as I'm told that WD40 has been
> re-formulated but in the old days you could spray it around the manifold
> contact places, etc. with an engine running & any vacuum leak would make
> an engine speed up quite noticeably.  Ether starting fluid should do the
> same but would have to be kept plenty far from the carb intake to avoid
> a "false alarm."
>
> Lew
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Thanks for the replies.  It is good to know that at least it is the
> right
> one.  I have cleaned with carb cleaner and blown out several times over
> the
> 15 years I have owned it.. I took it to the place that Dennis Polk uses,
> and
> had it boiled and new jets, still same thing.  I had heard of the place
> in
> IA and was thinking of trying them.  About a vacuum leak, I did a ring
> job 2
> years ago, and used all new gaskets, so it should not be leaking air. I
> did
> use the same manifold, so if it is wrapped, then I would have the same
> problem.
>
> I will keep plugging away, thanks again
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
> 




More information about the AT mailing list