[AT] Row Crop and the W-4

[Roy Morgan]

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

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