[AT] Corn Picking and storage.

[Gene Dotson]

    To all you idle folks out there.

    Isn't the term actually "HIGH IDLE" for maximum speed with no load? I 
side with Herb and Ralph that a "FAST IDLE" is any speed above the normal 
slow speed of the engine.

                        Gene



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:34 AM
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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