This info came from my late grandfather who was an experienced heavy equipment mechanic who know what he was talking about and wasn't giving out bad info. The cat converter wasn't ruined either, it just filled up with water. He took it off, dumped the water out, let it air dry, bolted it back on after draining the VA E10 gas out of the car's tank, poured in NJ E0 and car ran for years without trouble, never had a repeat of the water forming in the cat agian, just a weird reaction with the VA gas which was E10, had a big corn sticker on the pump. Maybe the gas was water contaminated since E10 absorbs more water than E0.
Back to the Farmall A, I tried cleaning the needle off using carb cleaner. Sprayed it down really well, let it air dry. Put the carb back together, double checked the float height just in case. Bolted the carb back on, opened the fuel valve and the carb flooded immediately. Took the carb back off and took it apart again, the tip turned softer than before and is no longer sealing. I checked the seat and it was clean. Screwed it out and the passage way above it was also clean. New needle valves for old tractors are crap now and E10 comnpounds the problem. Harsher fuel with weaker parts leads to bad times. I need to find better parts and better gas. Looks like I will have to have custom brass needle valves made.
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