[Ford-ferguson] More 8N questions

[jurors75973 at mypacks.net]

Hi Dave,

My 9N/8N's oil guage was reading unrealistically high, and it _did_ turn 
out to be a bad guage.  The way I tested for it was to buy a cheap oil 
pressure guage from NAPA and see what it read. 

My local farm-tire-guy came right out to the house, with his mobile 
unit, to repair the leaky calcium in my tires.  He drained the calcium 
out, cleaned up the wheel rim (it wasn't bad enough to replace), and 
replaced the tube, and then reinstalled the calcium. 

That was 5 or 6 years ago - definitely worth the cost of having him 
out.  I'm sure that the medical bills associated with me trying to get 
the calcium-loaded tires into my pickup, to take to him, would've been 
way beyond what it cost to have him do the hour and a half of draining 
and refilling the calcium.

Good luck - and check all the electrical connections for clean and 
tightness....

--
Chan Webb

On 7/20/2009 7:55 PM, Dave Merchant wrote:
> Couple more questions about the 8N
>
> 1.      Oil pressure shows pegged at 50 psi, even after an oil change.
>          Bad gauge? Is there a relief valve (ball + spring)?
>
> 2.      Want to get the calcium out + antifreeze in.
>          One valve stem is weeping.
>          I thought I heard that the calcium doesn't hurt grass, true/false?
>          I've heard of an exchange valve for this, does it work for
>          both loading + unloading the tires?
>
> May take it to the local show this weekend, if any of a couple hundred
> things don't go wrong.
>
> First really nice tractor I've ever had...
>
> Thanks
> Dave Merchant
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> Dave Merchant
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