[AT] Corn Picking and storage.

[Ralph Goff]

My concept of fast idle was always anything above normal  idle, usually for 
warm up purposes. On automatic choke vehicles the engine would automatically 
go onto fast idle until warmed up enough to "kick off". I've never considerd 
fast idle to be the same thing as full throttle. Guess I need to read my old 
tractor manuals and see how they define the terms.

Ralph in Sask.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Corn Picking and storage.


Very good, Charlie. Fast idle is full throttle (governed speed) with no load 
on the engine.



That's the speed you're supposed to use for main jet adjustment on a tractor 
carburetor.



But with injected engines, computerized control, non-adjustable main
jets, and a bunch of other bells and whistles, the term is being
forgotten or redefined.



My wife commented to me earlier this week about the former location of
the last carburetor shop we had in our town. She helped me deliver our
old Ford Courier to that shop for a tune-up on the day before we
decided to buy a new pickup. That was in 1997. The shop was razed a couple 
of years later.