[AT] Row Crop and the W-4

[oldiron62 at gmail.com]

Roy, watch on ebay for a good used manifold. I have good luck getting nice 
stuff for about 1/2 price or less.
I have not found the air tube yet but am sure that I will. ( have not been 
in the right building to look ) The crank is a good thing to have, what if 
the starter fails ? Just be careful how you use it !
Kevin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Morgan" <k1lky at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:04 PM
Subject: [AT] Row Crop and the W-4


>
> On Jun 25, 2009, at 10:38 PM, CEE VILL wrote:
>
>> ... The Farmall H is a row crop while the McCormick W4 would be the
>> sister in utility model etc..
>
> I spent some time on my W-4 today.  Yesterday I broke the muffler pipe
> off the manifold and the neighbor welded it back on (he used MIG
> welding rig).  Today I was messing with the air cleaner and tried to
> remove the muffler so I could get the bonnet off, and broke the weld
> again. Tomorrow he'll braze it.  The cast iron in the  header is
> SOOoooo grainy, I hope it holds.  Eventually, I suppose I'll be
> looking for a better manifold whose threads at the exhaust are still
> intact. The exhaust pipe is supposed to be threaded into the iron
> manifold.
>
> I was trying to get the bottom pan off the air cleaner and had wanted
> to remove the upper rubber hose to make the air cleaner to carburetor
> pipe fit right and well.  I could not drop the air cleaner pan enough
> to even see how much oil was in there.  There seemed to be a metal
> hydraulic line under it keeping me from lowering the pan enough.  I
> tried to figure out what the line was and followed it through two
> right angles to the lower main frame rail and forward toward the
> steering gear.  It ended abruptly, and I thought it might be a
> hydraulic quick disconnect.  When I finally got a look at the end of
> the thing, it dawned on me: I was looking at the hand crank!  So I
> learned a bit about the tractor today.  (I don't plan to do much hand
> cranking, though.)
>
> Roy
>
> Roy Morgan
> k1lky at earthlink.net
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> Groton NY, 13073
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