<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">If you read closely, the picture is of a used spring, but you are purchasing a new spring. $55 is still awful steep though. I mainly included the link so that you would know the name is apparently simply “foot spring”. Not very creative if you ask me :-)<br><br><div dir="ltr" id="AppleMailSignature">Spencer Yost</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On May 14, 2019, at 8:57 PM, Indiana Robinson <<a href="mailto:robinson46176@gmail.com">robinson46176@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>It's even worse than that... I looked at it very closely and I am sure it is already broken and is being held in place with a piece of twisted baling wire...</div><div>We have bought a handful of things from them over the years and while they were high we never had any problems with anything. I have to wonder if this is a glitch and maybe the $55 is for the lever assembly, not just the spring?</div><div>.</div><div>Well, I did have one problem... We bought a set of nice rims off of a Ford 8000 but ended up not using them. The problem was local... I put them out for sale and someone (I assume a scrapper) just loaded them up one day. Hardly Robert's fault. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 8:30 PM <<a href="mailto:bloomis@charter.net" target="_blank">bloomis@charter.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-4979503670415098911gmail-m_7095552465341221753WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Holy smokes. At $55 a pop for a pre-rusted out spring no wonder they are all broken at shows. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Bradford<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> AT <<a href="mailto:at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com" target="_blank">at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Spencer Yost<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 14, 2019 3:58 PM<br><b>To:</b> Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <<a href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com" target="_blank">at@lists.antique-tractor.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] Case VAC throttle spring thingy...<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">It is because the search engines are not too adaptive. You have to search for “thingy, spring”. :-)<br><br>Could this be it,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.robertstractor.com/Case-vac-Foot-Spring_p_3882.html" target="_blank">https://www.robertstractor.com/Case-vac-Foot-Spring_p_3882.html</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div id="gmail-m_-4979503670415098911gmail-m_7095552465341221753AppleMailSignature"><p class="MsoNormal">Spencer Yost<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><br>On May 14, 2019, at 4:44 PM, Indiana Robinson <<a href="mailto:robinson46176@gmail.com" target="_blank">robinson46176@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">You will notice that I didn't use the correct name for the throttle thingy, that is because I don't remember it and what it is called is my question. :-)<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">It is an odd spring that goes at the intersection of the hand throttle and the foot accelerator linkages. It has hooks that hook over the levers and it makes a circle or two around the stud that the levers mount to. That convergence of linkages is what allows the two feeds to operate separately.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The one on my non-running VAC is also broken and I once did some looking at a tractor show and it was broken on several VAC's at the show. Must have been a weak point, huh? :-)<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Anywho, I can't search for it unless I have a better name than "spring thingy"...<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br>-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">-- <br><br>Francis Robinson<br>aka "farmer"<br>Central Indiana USA<br><a href="mailto:robinson46176@gmail.com" target="_blank">robinson46176@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br>AT mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AT@lists.antique-tractor.com" target="_blank">AT@lists.antique-tractor.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com" target="_blank">http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com</a><u></u><u></u></p></div></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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