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Farmall H...Use Gas or Kerosene??

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spr-4

03-05-2005 18:53:48




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i have a 1942 farmall h with x3 at the end of the serial number. it has one fuel tank. it has been running fine on regular unleaded gasoline. i found out that the X3 means kerosene fuel. should i be using kerosene instead? i figure if it ain't broke don't fix it, or will it be broke soon?




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CNKS

03-06-2005 11:04:56




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 Re: Farmall H...Use Gas or Kerosene?? in reply to spr-4, 03-05-2005 18:53:48  
IH did that for two reasons. 1. Kerosene or distillate used to be cheaper than gas. 2. Gas was rationed and hard to come by in WW II when your tractor was built. (Although I'm pretty sure my dad could get all the gasoline he needed for his tractors). It is not practical to do it, but the IH engines ran better on the fuel for which they were designed. Meaning that an unmodified kerosene engine will run better on kerosene than it will on gasoline. I have no idea if todays kerosene is better or worse than that produced in the 40's, my guess would be worse. The only practical fuel now is gasoline.

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sammy the RED

03-06-2005 08:54:53




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 Re: Farmall H...Use Gas or Kerosene?? in reply to spr-4, 03-05-2005 18:53:48  
Keep useing the regular gas in her.



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klondike carl

03-06-2005 07:13:17




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 Re: Farmall H...Use Gas or Kerosene?? in reply to spr-4, 03-05-2005 18:53:48  
I have a 44 h and a 45 m both are duel fuel.
I have never ran either on kerosene. Have heard that they didn't run that great on kerosene. You had to be plowing or working hard to run kerosene. Just driving around barnyard or idling
they didn't run to great. My uncle had 100 gal of
gas with some diesel that was mixed in tank. He put it in his M and couldn't get M to pull hay rack into yard from field.

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Ronald

03-05-2005 19:45:39




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 Re: Farmall H...Use Gas or Kerosene?? in reply to spr-4, 03-05-2005 18:53:48  
X3 does mean kerosene but without the second tank, radiator shutters, and orginal manifold you can't run kerosene. Which there is no reason to now. In the 40's kerosene was cheap and that was the reason they ran it. The only reason I would try to run one now on kerosene would be for show purposes.
Ronald



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John *.?-!.* cub owner

03-05-2005 19:29:10




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 Re: Farmall H...Use Gas or Kerosene?? in reply to spr-4, 03-05-2005 18:53:48  
I don"t have anything handy giving me the defintion of the Xs on the serial number, but to run kerosene you will need the second small tank. You started the tractor on gas, and when it warmed up sweitched over to kerosene and readjsuted the carb. there was also a set of radiator shutter to use to keep the engine temperature up if not working hard.



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Dave

03-05-2005 19:06:21




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 Re: Farmall H...Use Gas or Kerosene?? in reply to spr-4, 03-05-2005 18:53:48  
Theres tons of references on how that works in the archives here.I had to ask also about my H distillate.Gas is fine.The more knowlegable here can decipher the x codes,and anything detailed about your H.Have fun and be safe!



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