[Farmall] Gas in Farmall M

[Mike Sloane]

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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