We had a Cummins 220 engine on a water pump at the city. It started leaking water during a 2 week continuous run during a cold spell when the power was off from a bad ice storm. We babied it along for 3 days. It ran 24/7 except to check the oil twice a day and do minimal maintenance. I asked the shop mechanic to try to find something to fix it. He checked around and was told, pepper. We added pepper each time we started it back up. We maintained the engine for a year after that, starting it each month and running for 1 hour pumping water. The City finally got a big generator so we could run all the operations at the water intakes (air compressor, screen wash pumps and an air bladder). When torn down, all the O-rings were bad and the liners had floated. It got us through and the director finally got the hint to upgrade. The motor was installed in 1953 and had 8,000 hours on it. It had been put on the list for replacement in 1978. Removed in 2009....James
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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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