Posted by the tractor vet on May 11, 2009 at 06:43:58 from (76.212.227.67):
In Reply to: Farmall 656...value? posted by camshaftprelube on May 11, 2009 at 04:56:52:
Here is my take on it If it is a gear drive and it is a diesel and it has been setting this long it may be a a good find then again it may be a night mare . If it is a hydro you may find problems that will break the bank to fix . A gear drive even if the low side to the T/A is out can still be used . You asked why you need to run High test gas in a gasser well well because the high test of today is on the bottom of the totom pole for the engine requierments of octane . Back when these old tractors were built all good grade regular gas was 95 octane and the high test of the era was 105+ now in todays world the best is 93 as because of the EPA engines have been de rated down since 1972 and by 1975 reg leaded gas was done away with and the day of the higher compression engines were dead and gone along with performance . The gas tractor era went the same way as by 1976 you could not by a big gas powered tractor . Just like today the new diesel fuel is starting to take it's toll on injection systems just like it did the last time they messed with the diesel fuel . So here again most people don't understand stuff like this they just want to do work with old equipment and when something starts to go wrong then here comes the what happened it was running fine and it did this or that and now it does not run anymore So if you are looking for and old tractor and you really do not know everything about them and you don't want to end up with a piece of junk that ya end up putting three times what ya paid for said tractor then by all means find a good old tractor mechanic to go with you and check things out even if ya have to pay the man a couple hundred bucks for his knolage . So that 656 you are looking at and with out us looking at it and running it it could be worthe 500 buck to 5000 bucks .It might cost ya 200 to get it up and running and it could cost ya 10000 to make it wright.
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