[AT] cold weather woes

[Cecil Bearden]

I only use premium unleaded no ethanol all the time and have no problems 
with any of my gasoline engines..

Cecil in OKla


On 1/19/2018 3:08 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> I have heard many people say "that's a winter job" ; well, it's not that
> simple, at least in north country. Yesterday my brother went to the shed
> to get the Ford Jubilee tractor that he bought last year. Well, it
> wouldn't start. It had previously been owned by the dad of a friend of
> mine. He said that his dad had used it a lot to move snow and it never
> failed to start. My brother was looking on the internet and found a
> tractor site that said no old tractor will start in cold weather with
> summer gas in it.  As soon as he has help my brother wants to tow it
> into his heated shop (he was going to take it to the shop anyway to make
> some improvements to it).  I know someone on the list is going to say
> they know of old tractors that start, but I must go by experience.
> Several years back when I still had livestock and needed my skid steer
> every day as winter approched it would not start until the battery was
> almost dead; hard on the starter and hard on me (23 horse 2 cyl.
> kohler). I spent $125 on parts from plugs to rebuilding the carb.;
> nothing helped. I then noticed the gas was almost gone so having nothing
> to lose, I went to town and got winter gas and from then on it started
> on the second turn (the farm gas I had been using was only 2 months old
> but was summer gas).  Another time, the loader was broke down for a few
> days in the winter so I was going to use my Farmall Cub with a trailer
> to move feed. It wouldn't start, even when being towed. The answer in
> the short term was to heat the carb. and the intake manifold with a hair
> dryer and it would start right up. Come warm weather the Cub started
> great with the same gas. Gas just isn't what it used to be.
>        Greg Hass
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