[AT] Corn Picking and storage.

CEE VILL cvee60 at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 30 22:16:05 PST 2010


You are exactly on target here, Ralph.  There are two entirely different definitions from the antique tractor world to the automotive world.

Charlie V in - 5 deg. WNY

> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:34:28 -0600
> From: alfg at sasktel.net
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Subject: Re: [AT] Corn Picking and storage.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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