Posted by jal-SD on November 08, 2021 at 18:27:19 from (142.0.9.52):
In Reply to: Re: Farmall h posted by jal-SD on November 08, 2021 at 17:47:30:
I see the starting tank after I looked more closely than before. The engines that were designed to burn tractor fuel or distillate needed to be hot before the distillate would ignite by a spark plug. The process in the days when distillate was used was to start them on gasoline, close the shutters until the engine temperature reached 170 or so degrees. Turned off the gasoline in the small tank & turn on the distillate valve under the large tank. Use the shutters to regulate the engines temperature. At the end of the work day, before you shut off the engine, you turned off the fuel from the large tank, opened the shutters, turned on the gas in the small tank. After the engine cooled off, turn off the engine. Before you started the tractor in the morning, drain the lighter oil off the top of the crankcase by opening the lower of the two petcocks on the oil pan. After it quits draining, close the bottom petcock & open the upper petcock. Pour fresh oil into the oil fill area on the motor unit oil drips from the upper petcock. You are then ready to start the distillate engine. A unknown amount of distillate hydrocarbons would leak past the rings and accumulate in the crankcase. They would float on the engine oil after they cooled and needed to be drained off after they condensed. Otherwise they would dilute the motor oil. BTW, that is why the two petcocks are seen in virtually all IHC oil pans of the era when tractors commonly were equipped with engines designed to use tractor fuel or distillate.
Upload one or more videos to your post. Photo and video filesizes should be less than 5MB. Formats allowed are gif, jpg, png, ogg, mp4, mov, and avi. Be sure to use filenames without spaces or special characters, and filetypes of 3 digits lower case.
We sell tractor parts! We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today. [ About Us ]
Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of Farm Machinery - by Joe Michaels. I am a mechanical engineer by profession, specializing in powerplant work. I worked as a machinist and engine erector, with time spent overseas. I have always had a love for machinery, and an appreciation for farming and farm machinery. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Not a place one would associate with farms or farm machinery. I credit my parents for instilling a lot of good values, a respect for learning, a knowledge of various skills and a little knowledge of farming in me, amo
... [Read Article]
Latest Ad:
1964 I-H 140 tractor with cultivators and sidedresser. Starts and runs good. Asking 2650. CALL RON AT 502-319-1952
[More Ads]
All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of any part of this website, including design and content, without written permission is strictly prohibited. Trade Marks and Trade Names contained and used in this Website are those of others, and are used in this Website in a descriptive sense to refer to the products of others. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy
TRADEMARK DISCLAIMER: Tradenames and Trademarks referred to within Yesterday's Tractor Co. products and within the Yesterday's Tractor Co. websites are the property of their respective trademark holders. None of these trademark holders are affiliated with Yesterday's Tractor Co., our products, or our website nor are we sponsored by them. John Deere and its logos are the registered trademarks of the John Deere Corporation. Agco, Agco Allis, White, Massey Ferguson and their logos are the registered trademarks of AGCO Corporation. Case, Case-IH, Farmall, International Harvester, New Holland and their logos are registered trademarks of CNH Global N.V.
