Simply put, just run what you would use otherwise, as in if it were a gas. I don't think the owners manuel specifies a separate oil for kero. I have a kero burner manuel, but don't have a gas burner manuel to compare it to. Perhaps all tractors had the same manuel. Used the same oil (I'm guessing).
Oils of today, are of much better quality than what they were pre-1952. Whatever you use, probably be better than what was used when it was new.
The big deal was the lower pet-cock on the pan. When running kero, unburnt fuel would leak past the rings. When tractor sat over night, the fuel in the oil would rise to the top in the pan. You'd drain this off by opening the lower pet-cock and draining down to that level, and then refill to the upper one with new oil. I might add, that I don't think people even messed with doing this, unless they ran the tractor all day, the day before. It might even specify in manuel to only do every so many hours of operating time.
The way fuel and oil prices are today, I'd probably catch what I drained off in a glass container. Let it re-seperate in there. Skim fuel off and dump back in the tank. Dump the oil back in the pan. The old timers back in the day, probably dumped it in thier squirt cans, and lubed un-greasable stuff with it. Not a common practice with our equipment of today.
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