Posted by ScottyHOMEy on December 11, 2008 at 22:02:38 from (71.241.208.102):
In Reply to: Re: lAA farmall posted by Trent O on December 11, 2008 at 19:50:38:
in the hood. . .
It sounds like this might have originally been a dual fuel tractor -- started on gas and switched over to distillate once it was warmed up.
Gas only would have three holes in the hood -- exhaust, air breather and the gas tank. Dual-fuel would have had exhaust, air, a cap for the main fuel (distillate) tank, and another cap for the smaller gas (starting) tank. Either case, these are apart from the radiator cap which passes through the top of the grille.
There would be some collectibility to the dual fuel IF all the components of the whole system are there -- both fuel tanks and the manifold, which was different, and the radiator shutters, used to reduce the efficiency of the fan and radiator, to allow the distillate to run the enigine up to a hotter temp)
The manifolds on the dual-fuels had a heat shield around them with an adjustable shutter to regulate air flow, allowing it to heat up more when burning distillate. Many of them rusted shut or rusted out and were replaced. If you have one, it's worth keeping and cleaning up to see if you can make it work.
If you've got both tanks, they are definitely worth keeping, but plan on running gas in both, or treating the small starting gas as an empty object of interest. There's nothing around that is what the old distillate fuel was and most folks long ago started running gas in both tanks.
Shutters are a nice touch and still quite useful fror warming up you engine on short runs, especially in a cold climate.
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