Re: How's New England Today

Posted by Dave in CT on January 28, 2004 at 13:20:19 from (64.252.220.245):

In Reply to: How's New England Today posted by Michael Soldan on January 28, 2004 at 05:41:02:

About 7" 20 miles SE of Hartford. Still snowing at 4:00PM but very fine and light snow - I think it's pretty much over. Plowed for about an hour and my '47 H with a 6' front blade didn't miss a beat. With the carb rebuild and adjustment, it runs at a proper lean mixture now. I didn't measure how much but it consumed very little gas - certainly under a gallon - and it was going full bore the whole time.

I still haven't gotten the timing to show anywhere near where I think it should be with either the static or dynamic timing light but it's running so well, I ain't gonna fix it. I'll explore that one when I don't need to plow for a while.

It was around 23F and calm when I plowed. This is balmy compared to the 3F/35MPH winds time that gave me some rough running. As an aside, I spoke with a seventy-five year old farmer (raises Belgians) and he said that was one of very few times he'd seen it snow in CT when it was that cold. I had a cardboard air-dam in front of the grill for about half of the hour - until I could smell the engine's warmed-up smell. The rest of the time I ran without it. So, I still have to prove it in real cold weather - perhaps I'll give it a test drive the next below zero morning. I'm still working on fabricating that intake air heater that goes around the muffler but I think the adjustments and the air dam may allow me to get by without it.

The clutch behaved fine as well - tightening up that one loose release lever did the trick. Thanks again Mike.

Dave

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