[Farmall] Gas in Farmall M

[Thomas O Mehrkam]

Look in the gas tank after you drain it.

Look for Deposits from the bad gas. You may have a bigger job than you 
think. The gas from 2006 might not have completely broken down. If it 
was filled with todays gas you would certainly be in trouble.

Mike Sloane wrote:
> Yes, drain that old gas out and use it for starting your burn pile or 
> cleaning paint brushes or something else not related to running an 
> engine. I would also disassemble the carburetor and clean out all the 
> passages, unless you had the gas turned off at the tank all this time.
>
> Mike
>
> On 7/19/2010 5:58 PM, William Ransom wrote:
>   
>> Last Friday, I bought an ignition file, and, after I filed the
>> points, I got the M's magneto to spark. From what has been said about
>> gas in some of the other messages, I take it I should drain the gas
>> that was put in the M in 2006 out before trying to start it again.
>> There was no stabilizer put in it. Last year, when I removed the main
>> jet adjusting screw from the carburetor to see if the gas was getting
>> that far, the gas that came out looked very yellow. That was just
>> after the last time I tried to start the M, when its engine didn't
>> seem to fire at all. As I mentioned before, when I tried to start it
>> in 2007 and 2008, the engine seemed to be trying to start, but it
>> wouldn't really run. _______________________________________________
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