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Varnished gas. 60 year old dried up grease. 90 weight. Gloppy, sludgy black oil. Weasel Piss dripping off every fastener (PB Blaster...)

Dang I love working on old tractors!

Fought the bent, rusted and stove up belly pans off the crawler, drained the engine oil (may be factory original...) pulled the oil filter canister apart and removed the filter (likely also the original...) and pulled the oil bath air cleaner apart.

Somehow, a meese got into the air cleaner and drowned in the oil cup. DAMN that stunk when I took it apart. Gave serious thought to adding my recent lunch to the mix...

Went to NAPA, they had points, plugs and condenser on the shelf and will have the oil filter from the warehouse in the morning. Love me some NAPA. When I did the 1938 Farmall F14, they had pistons, rings, bearings and an engine overhaul gasket kit overnight.

Try that with those dipshits at Advance Auto...
 
Last summer I was having problems with my Farmall BN I mow lawn with and haul firewood etc. Loss of power and stalling when warmed up.

Had to do some digging through old records of mine and also crossing part numbers but NAPA managed to have all the parts needed to rebuilt the magneto on this 1947 machine. It had been only around 35 years since I did that the last time so not sure why it failed so soon!

Then wouldn't you know the battery I installed just ten years back started to act up and not hold charge! At least I was able to find the hand crank in the barn so I could finish that days work!

It had been a couple years since I changed the oil so I went crazy and changed that and installed a new filter. Some day I might even get up the ambition to retorque the head and set the valves, think that was last done around 1998!
 
Downeaster said:
Varnished gas. 60 year old dried up grease. 90 weight. Gloppy, sludgy black oil. Weasel Piss dripping off every fastener (PB Blaster...)

Dang I love working on old tractors!

Fought the bent, rusted and stove up belly pans off the crawler, drained the engine oil (may be factory original...) pulled the oil filter canister apart and removed the filter (likely also the original...) and pulled the oil bath air cleaner apart.

Somehow, a meese got into the air cleaner and drowned in the oil cup. DAMN that stunk when I took it apart. Gave serious thought to adding my recent lunch to the mix...

Went to NAPA, they had points, plugs and condenser on the shelf and will have the oil filter from the warehouse in the morning. Love me some NAPA. When I did the 1938 Farmall F14, they had pistons, rings, bearings and an engine overhaul gasket kit overnight.

Try that with those dipshits at Advance Auto...
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well, the good news about the meese is that he went to join his ancestors before raising a family somewhere else in that tractor
 
MaxPete said:
......photos DE - photos (but not of the mice or your lunch please...) ;)
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Nothing new visually since the last post in the "adulting sux" thread.

Cleaned up the wiring for the genny and coil, remounted the coil that was hanging by it's wires and pulled the carb-a-tooter off. I think we may have set a new record for gas varnish tho. Fuel line is plugged solid, got it soaking in acetone, and the shutoff/filter/bowl is glued together with it (also soaking in acetone). Throttle butterfly in the updraft carb was frozen but loosened up fairly easily. Old cast iron carb, lot of varnish and rust inside, cleaning that up is the next project.
 
Downeaster said:
Nothing new visually since the last post in the "adulting sux" thread.

Cleaned up the wiring for the genny and coil, remounted the coil that was hanging by it's wires and pulled the carb-a-tooter off. I think we may have set a new record for gas varnish tho. Fuel line is plugged solid, got it soaking in acetone, and the shutoff/filter/bowl is glued together with it (also soaking in acetone). Throttle butterfly in the updraft carb was frozen but loosened up fairly easily. Old cast iron carb, lot of varnish and rust inside, cleaning that up is the next project.
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Stick at it my friend - you'll get there!

Pete
 
Oh yeah. I don't mind (much...) pacing myself. I get a couple of hours in the morning, then go for a walk with SWMBO, then another couple of hours before my daily Nap Attack. Might do a little in the evening if the spirit moves me.

Posta rain all day tomorrow which would make for a nice uninterrupted shop day, but SWMBO has an appointment with ol' Doc Painless at 1pm. So, I need to quit by 11:30 at the latest, get cleaned up (stinky job...). By the time I take her to her appointment and get back, have lunch and a nap, the day will be shot.

But I've got all Winter.
 
Downeaster said:
Varnished gas. 60 year old dried up grease. 90 weight. Gloppy, sludgy black oil. Weasel Piss dripping off every fastener (PB Blaster...)
Dang I love working on old tractors!
Fought the bent, rusted and stove up belly pans off the crawler, drained the engine oil (may be factory original...) pulled the oil filter canister apart and removed the filter (likely also the original...) and pulled the oil bath air cleaner apart.
Somehow, a meese got into the air cleaner and drowned in the oil cup. DAMN that stunk when I took it apart. Gave serious thought to adding my recent lunch to the mix...
Went to NAPA, they had points, plugs and condenser on the shelf and will have the oil filter from the warehouse in the morning. Love me some NAPA. When I did the 1938 Farmall F14, they had pistons, rings, bearings and an engine overhaul gasket kit overnight.
Try that with those dipshits at Advance Auto...
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Hi DE,
a while back a friend had his tractor with front lift bucket parked at my place.
Tractor ran OK but the bucket moved REALLY slow.
Dropped the hydraulics sump.
"What holds this 1/2" thick black woven filter onto the hydraulics pump pickup ?"
"That ain't a filter, it's shredded innards from the hydraulic hoses."
Peeled the alleged filter off, put 'er back together and watch 'er MOVE!
 
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