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Re: f-20,gas vs. kerosene
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Posted by Delbert from Lincoln on June 08, 2005 at 17:55:39 from (205.188.117.73):
In Reply to: Re: f-20,gas vs. kerosene posted by Jeff Wenner on June 08, 2005 at 09:11:13:
When I was growing up, gas was about .20cents, kerosene was about .10cents, and tractor fuel, which was a grade betweeen kerosene, or coal oil as it was called, and gasoline, then was about .14cents. Tractor fuel was the perfered fuel, and the old F Farmalls ran better on it then on kerosene. Whenever the wheat crop looked good, we burned tractor fuel cultivating , and then fall plowing after harvest. If the wheat was poor, there wouldn"t be enough money to pay the fuel bill and seed bill from the spring planting, Then we kept the shutters on the tractors closed a little tighter, got them a little hotter, and ran kerosene. If you killed the engine on kerosene, you just about had to shut the fuel off, drain the carburetor, refill the carb with gas to get it started. On F-20 and F-30 this was easy. On the F-12, it took a lot of cranking to get gas through the fuel pump to the carburetor. Some guys that have all fuel engines, and like to put on demonstrations on starting on gas and switching fuel, mix gas and kerosene. Each guy has his own formula, but what ever it runs good on.
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