[AT] Portland Roll Call..................

Steve W. falcon at telenet.net
Tue Aug 25 20:30:20 PDT 2009


Indiana Robinson wrote:
> I'm starting to feel like there is a conspiracy going on to keep me
> from making Portland this year. I spent most of Sunday installing a
> pressure tank and re-plumbing some stuff at the storm damaged rental
> house. It wasn't storm damage, just stuff failing with bad timing.
> Every time I turn around this month it is something else.  :-(
> It is almost as much fun as the letter we just got from the insurance
> company telling us that due to so much storm and flood damage across
> Central Indiana the last few years that some policies will go up as
> much as 35%... Yay! Rah! Just what we need.   :-)
> -
> So far (knock on plastic) I am still on track to make Portland but I
> will not have time to do any pressure washing etc. and will just load
> and haul as is, grease, dirt, warts and cobwebs.   :-)
> I made some description signs for each item I'm bringing and on each
> one I make a reference to A.T.I.S. and the home page URL.
> One job did  go well today. My TO-20 Fergie had bent radius rods when
> I bought it which is common on one that spent a lot of time mowing
> around a rough woods and perhaps it was not equipped with an
> over-running clutch early on. Both were bent but the right one was
> bent so bad that the tie rod was rubbing tightly against it. It looked
> like the third cousin of a pretzel. I pulled the right one first and
> after some study I put it in my hydraulic pipe bender with the right
> width die and started bending a little at a time along its length. I
> didn't achieve perfection but I feel pretty good about them both
> compared with how they started.
> I have been trying to do a little patching on its broken manifold and
> it is not going well... I have welded quite a bit of cast iron over
> the years but old burnt out exhaust manifold cast almost never goes
> well for me. I knew I was in trouble when I started grinding to prep
> it and I never hit good solid shiny cast. I may have to take it to
> Portland still broken and look for a good used one there or just let
> it sit there as is and order one when I get home.
> I also need to put a manifold on my 1946 Allis C. It isn't truly
> "broken", it just finally went through from burn out. You can't hardly
> get more than 60 years of wear out of anything these days...  :-)
> I'm really enjoying getting back to shop work.
> -
> We "hope" to arrive with the tractors and stuff Wednesday afternoon
> and bring the old travel trailer up about noonish Thursday.
> 
> 


Farmer, You can get a replacement for that manifold for about 150.00 NEW.

http://www.ssbtractor.com/Massey-Ferguson-tractor-parts/exhaust-manifold.html
http://www.tractorpartsinc.com/massey_ferguson_manifolds_386_ctg.htm
http://www.tractorpart.com/FERGUSON_EXHAUST_MANIFOLD.htm
http://www.agkits.com/ferguson-to20-te20-to30-to35-exhaust-manifold.aspx
http://www.tractorpartsasap.com/Massey_Ferguson_TE20_Exhaust_s/1284.htm


-- 
Steve W.




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