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Restoration of H

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ryanvet

09-19-2007 10:07:34




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Looking for opinions
Have a Farmall H that was originally kerosene. No longer has shutter, no longer has gas start up tank, still has kerosene manifold. Would like to restore it. Don"t know if I will ever show, but you never know. Do I replace manifold with gas manifold and just make it all gasoline? Or do I try to find the shutter, start up tank, possibly fix or replace kerosene manifold and keep it original. How hard is that going to be.

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Mike CA

09-19-2007 16:48:02




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 Re: Restoration of H in reply to ryanvet, 09-19-2007 10:07:34  
I'll take cheap and easy please.



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Mike CA

09-19-2007 14:10:58




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 Re: Restoration of H in reply to ryanvet, 09-19-2007 10:07:34  

Gauger said: The tank and shutters are not hard to find.


I wish that was true. I'm still looking for a usable tank.



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Steven f/AZ

09-19-2007 15:41:40




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 Re: Restoration of H in reply to Mike CA, 09-19-2007 14:10:58  
I"ve seen the tanks on eBay from time to time. They aren"t cheap, but they are easy to find.

You have three options, only two of them work:
Cheap
Easy
Fast

You can do it cheap and fast, but it won"t be easy. You can do it fast and easy, but it won"t be cheap. You can do it cheap and easy, but it won"t be fast. Or something like that... LOL



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Gauger

09-19-2007 12:47:38




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 Re: Restoration of H in reply to ryanvet, 09-19-2007 10:07:34  
For me it would hinge on the manifold. The tank and shutters are not hard to find. If your's is functional or repairable to a functional state I would keep all original. Trying fo find a better one might be hard. I've looked for years for one for my Super H and I don't believe one exists so I had to put a lot of work into repairing mine to make it functional. If the baffle doesn't work I have no use for it.

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ryanvet

09-19-2007 12:58:27




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 Re: Restoration of H in reply to Gauger, 09-19-2007 12:47:38  
Tractor runs great on gas. If it didn't run, I was considering switching to gas and making it work, but it does not appear to be in too bad of shape.



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Mike CA

09-19-2007 10:45:27




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 Re: Restoration of H in reply to ryanvet, 09-19-2007 10:07:34  
I suppose it all has to do with what you want to do with the tractor, and what your goals are. You could restore to original. That would be more work and more money of course. Or you could keep what you have on it and just restore it to work and look good as it is. It's just a matter of preference. I have a '44 H that I am going to restore to as original as I can get it, within reason. But it's only going to be a show/parade tractor.

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