Posted by LenNH on February 10, 2010 at 17:40:16 from (24.60.236.239):
In Reply to: identifying tractor posted by washingtonMark on February 08, 2010 at 06:15:35:
Those oil petcocks go back to the kerosene days of the 20s! All the old number series tractors had them. Kerosene would condense in some of the cylinders of an engine as it cooled, and this liquid would run down the sides of the pistons and dilute the oil. The instruction books for these old tractors call for draining oil to the bottom petcock and refilling with fresh oil until it ran out the top petcock! This was supposed to be done every day if the tractor had been run much the previous day. I expect quite a lot of oil got thrown away because of this. I tried kerosene once in my father's 10-20. It is a first-class pain in the unmentionable. Start on gas, warm up by pulling up the radiator curtain (shutter on later models of IHC tractors), turn off gas, turn on kerosene. Keep engine hot by working it. If you didn't, it would spit and sputter when you tried to accelerate. If you shut off with kerosene in the carb, the engine would not start cold. Then you drained the carb, turned on the gasoline, and, to make things easier, squirted some gasoline into the two priming cups on top of the engine. Kerosene must have been a lot cheaper than gas, but it must have been because it was such a pain that in all the years (maybe 20) that I was around IHC tractors with kerosene-distillate engines, I never saw a one of them used with kerosene or distillate.
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