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Adam Paul
08-01-2004 20:18:59
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Well, before I write my next post called "What a day! - Bull Riding part 3" I figure I'll start with a really good story. About a month and a half ago, I saw an 8N parked in the middle of a halfway cut pasture up the road from me, and thought awesome!, another "N" owner. Well after a week and some rain went by, I saw the 8N had not moved... Thought to myself "I sure hope all's OK..." Well, another week or two went by, and still the tractor just sat there. A couple of weeks ago, me and Sherry (my better half) were on our way back from the store and I mentioned that the guys tractor had probably broken down, and maybe I should stop by and help. "Adam, you've got way to much on your plate to be spending time on someone else's tractor." So I replied with "Well, wouldn't it have been nice if someone came out and helped with my PTO shaft, when I didn't at the time know how to fix it???"
So, one evening, one the way home from work, dressed like a yuppie, I stop at the guys house.
"Saw your tractor out in the yard and I was wondering if everything was OK" He looked at me like I had two heads!!! "You see, I know my way around these tractors pretty good, and I own one very similar to it" So he then tells me it broke down, and he got a mechanic to look at it. He went around the corner, and pulled out a front mount coil. "The mechanic told me this was bad, and they don't make these anymore. He said it would cost $375 dollars to fix, not including parts and I'll have to wait a month or two before the parts get in" "I'll fix your tractor, tell the mechanic to forget about it" "So how much will you charge?" Not a thing. "Why would you fix my tractor for nothing?" "Cause now, I'm returning the favors others have done for me" (through this board) I stopped by the next day with a multi meter, discovered the coil was indeed shorted, then looked at the tractor again, and with a print out of the YTMAG ording page, I had him order a new 12 v front mount coil. "Really, that simple?" "Yep, just go on and order it. I'll install it next week!" I get out to his house on Friday, (this time wearing overalls) His coil had come in, and he handed it to me. So, with a new coil in hand, all excited and all, I tidied up some of the wiring, and put the coil in. Battery was dead, so I gave it a jump. I had got up on the tractor, hit the starter,,, and NOTHING!!! What the heck, lets have a second look here... Take the coil off, take the distributor off,,, Holy cow, no points, no condenser, yikes... "I'll be back tomorrow or Sunday morning to make this work... Don't worry, I'll get it going" So with some spare parts at hand, and a few borrowed parts from a recently bought tune-up kit for my own problems, I headed out to his house again. Pulled the distributer, installed points, and condenser, made a jumper wire (nice) from the condenser to the points, set the gap, and put it all together. At the start of all this, I was just out there by myself, sort of enjoying life. When I had started to put things back together, he had come out to see how things were going... "Looks like we're ready to try again" Double checked the fluids, put the jumper cables on, and sure enough, that 8N fired right up!!! Sounded beautiful!!! Took the cables off, and smiling from ear to ear said "Go on, test her out!" And I did. Boy the 8Ns are nice!!! Anyway, I returned from a once around, and handed him back the tractor. He could not believe it... It was so nice seeing him so happy... He wanted to pay me, but I couldn't. I had fun with it too!!!
The icing on the cake was when Sherry was returning from her shopping, she saw I had fixed the mans tractor, and notice that he looked truly happy. Hours later, still cutting the grass, and still smiling from ear to ear... She came home and told me about that, and how she noticed him so happy, and how her Adam did that. She was totally proud!!!
That made my day!!!
Thanks guys for the wonderful forum I belong to!!!
Adam Paul
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