sflem849 said: (quoted from post at 03:31:38 12/27/09) Red mist is correct on the FBK. If you need some useless trivia info the diesel version was FDBK ######
Your hood will probably have an extra small hole in front of the gas tank opening. This 7/8(?) gallon tank was for good gas while distallate was stored in the big tank. You would start on the good gas and then run on the distallate. It had less power, but it was really cheap. Other indicators of a former distallate tractor include a heat regulating manifold. Not sure if that is what it is really called, but it had a lever thing on the side that you could control the manifold heat with. They also came with radiator shutters to make the tractor run hotter. I guess they needed to be good and warm to burn the junk fuel.
Do some research on it and you will find a lot of info.
That small Gas tank was taken off of ours, but i can remember it laying in some junk pile here. My dad welded the hole shut in the hood. It had a Gas maniflod put on it, and it had the shutters.
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