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Farmall H All Fuel??

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Arnettbros

02-14-2008 09:14:51




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I bought this really clean Farmall H w/3 point this morning and I immediately noticed it had a secondary fuel tank petruding through the hood in front of the main tank (near the hood gauges). I've had a lot of Farmall H's come and go but never have seen one with this extra fuel tank?? Can someone help explain this one? Serial FBH 143629 Thanks




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Andy Motteberg

02-14-2008 14:09:02




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 Re: Farmall H All Fuel?? in reply to Arnettbros, 02-14-2008 09:14:51  
The small tank is the "starting tank", it was used on tractors that burn Distillate or Kerosene fuel. The small tank hold 1 gallon of Gasoline for starting the tractor, and then when you close the radiator shutter and let the engine warm up to the "RUN" in the temp gauge, you open the shutter and turn off the Gasoline and turn on the valve for the Distillate or Kerosene. Distillate or Kerosne was used because it was cheaper than Gasoline back then.

Andy.

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athol carr

02-14-2008 13:05:50




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 Re: Farmall H All Fuel?? in reply to Arnettbros, 02-14-2008 09:14:51  
In New Zealand in the 1940s kerosene was a third of the price of petrol (gasoline). In the 1950s rebate petrol (without the road taxes) was available for farmers and the use of kerosene with its higher oil use (draining off about a quart each morning) and higher maintenace rapidly diminished



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Scott Swanson

02-14-2008 09:36:59




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 Re: Farmall H All Fuel?? in reply to Arnettbros, 02-14-2008 09:14:51  
What you have is an old Kerosene/Distillate burner. Gas was rationed during the war so various tractor models sported small starting gas tanks and large mega manifolds with heat shields. The tractors were started on gas (Small Tank) and then switched to Distillate (Large Tank)for field work. They had a coolant Temperature gauge to prevent engine seizure at high temp ranges. The carburetor was also designed for the exotic Distillate metering range. A Distillate carb has a small petcock to drain the carb if the engine killed or it was accidently turned off with distillate in the running system. Tractors could not be started on Distillate. It is not combustible enough at regular air temps. That is what the heat shield did, heat the manifold white hot to atomize the fuel. Gas does not need this pre-heating. There is also a shutter built in to operate in front of the radiator to restrict air flow throught the fins. Closing the shutters would cause a increase in heat rapidly to warm the engine and increase the heat of the manifold to the detonation temperature of Kerosene or distillate.

Regular gas can be ran throught the distillate tractor but the head is lower compression and the tractor has less power than its gas cousins. A gas tractor is denoted in the serial number with a X1.

While we were bombing Germany and Japan, farmers were burning distillate in their tractors to feed the War effort. You have a piece of that history under you whenever you drive your tractor.

I would have to also say you probably have a cast Iron Shifter Knob. Rubber and Aluminum were being used to build planes.

Smile!!!!

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Harold H

02-14-2008 12:11:20




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 Re: Farmall H All Fuel?? in reply to Scott Swanson, 02-14-2008 09:36:59  
Kerosene was the fuel of choice for most early combustion powered tractors. Distillate (tractor fuel) was the most common fuel for tractors way before WW-2 in lots of areas of the country. It started being phased out in the late 40's but most tractors were still factory available with a distillate (IHC) or all fuel (JD) option untill the later part of the 50's. Last IHC tractors available from factory for distillate were the 350, 450, 650 series.

Harold H

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TXFarmallFan

02-14-2008 11:52:51




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 Re: Farmall H All Fuel?? in reply to Scott Swanson, 02-14-2008 09:36:59  
What a neat find! I wish my H had that much historical significance.



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Andrew Z

02-14-2008 11:59:34




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 Re: Farmall H All Fuel?? in reply to TXFarmallFan, 02-14-2008 11:52:51  
Around here there all over the place every other H or M i look at is Dist. or Kero. setup. though most of the system is gone ie the lines and spliter vlave etc.. but there all over. A more uncommon one would be a Super H or Super M with that set up.

Andrew



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NDS

02-14-2008 15:56:11




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 Re: Farmall H All Fuel?? in reply to Andrew Z, 02-14-2008 11:59:34  
I do not know where the myth that distillate tractors were just built during WW II came from. The first gasoline tractor we had was 1953 Super M.



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NDS

02-14-2008 10:15:36




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 Re: Farmall H All Fuel?? in reply to Scott Swanson, 02-14-2008 09:36:59  
If tractor was warmed up it would start on disttilate or kerosene, we usually started on disttilate after noon in hot weather too. After WW II distribtors in our area went to so called "hot fuel" and we usually did not use gasoline to start at least not in summer.



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Andrew Z

02-14-2008 09:34:52




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 Re: Farmall H All Fuel?? in reply to Arnettbros, 02-14-2008 09:14:51  
The little tank was for gasoline used when warming up the engine. When the engine was brought up to temp it was then switched manualy to either kero or distillate for the engine to run on for working.

Andrew



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