Couple of things here. One I did and other I saw the damage. Guy brought in a Super M farmall gasoline tractor to shop. Hadn't run for a long time so I left it in the lot, went out and drained the gasoline out of tank. Some gas got into clutch housing. Later I put in fresh gas after cleaning carb etc, etc, and hit the starter. Boom, the gasoline ignited from spark of brush's in starter. Scared heck out of me and I never did find the plugs that were in the clutch housing plugging the holes where a belly pump would be if it had one.
Other time was hole in the side of the oil pan on a 5 ton Army vehicle. As all the components like distributor had to be water proof for fording they were all vented. Vent lines hooked together from crankcase, distributor etc to one common connector. Anyway, the spark of the points set off gasoline fumes in crankcase and blew the cast oil pan a nice big hole. Don't recall for sure but I think a check valve was supposed to prevent that.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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