[AT] Easier to Start?

[Brian VanDragt]

Yes there was.  The unstyled tractors with electric start had a guard around
the flywheel's perimeter to keep you from contacting the starter ring gear,
but in the center of the flywheel there was a bolt on hub that you could
stick an adapter shaft in and turn the engine with your steering wheel.  On
the styled tractors the flywheel was more enclosed but you could remove the
center of the flywheel guard and put a different type of adapter shaft into
the end of the crankshaft and turn the engine with your steering wheel.
Both types are shown here:
http://www.retiredtractors.com/Q/steiner/crank.html

Brian

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of Tyler Juranek
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [AT] Easier to Start?


Hi, interesting.
Wasn't there a way to crank the two cylinder Jd's with electric start as
well?
If anyone knows how to do so, can you please explain?
Thanks,
Tyler

On 7/19/12, Steve W. <swilliams268 at frontier.com> wrote:
> Mike Sloane wrote:
>> The old Farmall tractors don't care whether you use the crank or the
>> starter motor. And it doesn't matter whether they have electric ignition
>> or magneto. One advantage of those old Farmall gas engines is that they
>> were very, very simple - nothing that you wouldn't recognize out of
>> VoTech text book describing generic 4 cylinder in-line engines. There
>> was no vacuum advance, nothing sophisticated at all. The smaller
>> tractors came with a crank that sat in special clips in or on the
>> operator platform, while the larger machines had other arrangements. The
>> Cubs, and A/B/C's were very easy to crank, but I have never tried to
>> crank an M or H. I think those might be more work. Incidentally, when I
>> needed to turn the engine over on my Ford 2N, I discovered that the
>> Farmall Cub hand crank fit perfectly. The only "trick", as others have
>> mentioned, is that you don't just spin the handle around. You engage the
>> crank in the "down" position, keep your thumb close to your index
>> finger, and pull up smartly on the handle. Of course, it also requires
>> that the gas be open, the ignition on, the throttle about half way, and
>> maybe the choke closed (the first time only). 9 out of 10 times, the
>> crank is the only way my '48 Cub will start.
>>
>
> My F-20 starts pretty well, so does the H. Not hard cranking either one.
>
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