Re: Timing a '53 Super A?

Posted by Hugh MacKay on March 15, 2003 at 15:48:09 from (64.228.11.180):

In Reply to: Timing a '53 Super A? posted by SAm in NS on March 15, 2003 at 13:10:25:

Sam: I knew you would get some flack on that one. Guys, I told Sam last winter of a local that taught me most of what I know about old gas Farmalls. back in the 50s and 60s he rebuilt a dozen or so per year. He wouldn't put an engine back together if people were in shop. He said it created to much dust having people milling about. He would go back late in day when all customers were tending their livestock, lock the doors from inside and put the engine together.

He was regularly consulted by IH dealer and indeed IH with mechanical problems. He never owned a timing light. He did it all by ear. When his rebuilds went to a dyno they always exceeded the rated hp. When doing a rebuild in winter he would always dismantel tractor near enough to door so no other vehicle would fit. His rebuilds took couple of weeks as he still did other carry in work. In that way he only had to open the big door to shop once every two weeks or so to change tractors.

Dealer told my father once that if he had a Russel in every community he did business he wouldn't even run his own shop. As Russel got older he cut it back to doing cubs, As, Cs, etc. He near broke my fathers heart when he told him he wouldn't do the 300 one last time.

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