[AT] Ice storm in OK

[Cecil R Bearden]

Well I got the new low pressure pump installed on the 60KW Onan.  Hwever 
it still did the same thing. I took the fuel return fitting out. and it 
was plugged with fine red colored particles that are about he size of 
fine ground black pepper.  I don't believe it is from the rubber in the 
governor plate.  It only has 500 hrs on it and it is the same engine 
used in the Allis 190XT.  It has a Roosa master DB series pump on it. 
Same pump as on my swather only 6cyl instead of 4.  I rebuilt the 
swather pump last summer.  The check ball in the return fitting would 
plug each time I cleaned and re-started it.  I changed the fitting to a 
hose barb fitting and it ran fine, in fact I had to adjust the speed 
down to get the frequency correct.    I ran it for about 30 minutes and 
it stayed on speed.  Will try again tomorrow.

Cecil in OKla



On 12/31/2015 6:10 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Cecil I was wondering about you and figuring your silence meant you were
> iced in.
> Glad you are back up and running.  Please be careful!
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cecil R Bearden
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 3:33 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Ice storm in OK
>
> Back online after a few days of no internet and almost no
> electricity.    The old ONAN 60KW decided to have fuel problems and the
> ice covered the wifi antenna so we had no internet service to even find
> a replacement.  When you have to call "parts counterman personnel" with
> something that does not have wheels on it, you can see the dumb looks
> through the phone.  After I removed the fuel pump and got online, it
> took 20 minutes to find a replacement at the local NAPA warehouse about
> 8 miles away.
> I have to give my wife the credit for having service.  She got in the
> loader basket last night with a propane weed burner and a pole and
> heated and beat the ice off the wifi antenna while I operated the
> tractor and loader.  It was her first time to be over 6 ft off the ground!
> We had from 1.5 to 2 inches of ice on everything.  2 power poles were
> broke at the road.  They were fixed today ( now yesterday). An outdoor 2
> story golf driving facility had 50 ft tall fences around it to keep the
> golf balls in and with the ice and wind, it looks like a tornado hit it!!
> A couple of years ago I bought a little 8kw generator on trailer that
> had an Allis Chalmers/ Toyosha 213 engine driving a Winco generator.
> Same engine in the 5020 Allis tractor.  I ran it for a day not long
> after I bought it when the power was out from  a tornado.  This time it
> ran for 3 days with the only problem being household breakers cannot be
> used on a 2 cyl generator.  The vibration kills the contacts!!!   I had
> to rewire it at 2am!  I just bypasses the breakers!
>
> They say we are going to get snow tonight...   The cattle are trying to
> slog through 4 inches of slush.  I had to quit feeding cubes they were
> tromping them in the ground.   Just feeding Wheat hay that has a lot of
> grain in it...   If it was not for the 4wd Belarus tractors, I would be
> out of luck.  The mud here is a foot deep.. My 2 wheel New Holland just
> spins without anything on the loader forks.   Over in the eastern side
> of OK they have had 15 inches of rain and the rivers are at the highest
> level ever recorded.
>
> I hope you guys have better weather than we do.  If not I hope you have
> the equipment and knowledge to survive.....
> If I had ot been such a pack rat I would be out of luck this past week.....
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
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