This is in response to my earyler post of inline filter and spark plugs. The way i see problumes in life is this..... If you don't fix it right the first time when are you gonna have time to fix it? When i said i put on the inline filter it was because i just bought the tractor two days ago. There was white crap in the worm holes from gas sitting there foe a year with out having been run much. I will add the right screen as soon as i can get one. i'm still gonna run the inline filter and i always run good clamps on both sides of the filter, and yes they are plastic, my father liked to put them on just to keep thing cleen. he has never in the 15 years he has used them ever had one brake or come apart and start a fire. When i checked the fuel flow comming out the bottom jet when compleatly removed there was more then enough fuel going to the carb. if it burned anymore then that i would park the thing and just look at it. If it becomes plugged i have filters on hand and will change it. As far as cleaning the gas tanks i took the sedimate filter compleatly off and flushed 3 gallons of fuel through it. i hardly got any crud out and i looked in the tank with a light and it looked better then some of my other tractors that run perfect. I do not get any gas from cans.... All my gas comes from my 300 gallon bulk tank and has a commerical grade micron filter on it. i cannot rember how small of stuff it will catch (but is says _ _ _ micron. I got it from the shell guy and he uses them on there pumps at the store where cars get gas, so my tanks are not dirty from me. I always make sure nothing is in the nozzel as pops always told me spiders and bugs like to make them home, so i put a plstic cap (old gun shell) over the nozzel to keep bugs and crap out. I dont use sticks or nothing to check the gas level. So im not being lazy and i like doing things "right". I take my time and do things the way i would want it done if i was paying someone. But the spark plug thing on these ol engines if there not missing that is what matters. I;m not running them real hard or trying to win a contest, if i was i would run the best plugs i could if someone could show me you get better performance. Also I like to run duralube in all my engines as IT helps.(made my windstar get 19 mpg instead of 18.6 mpg. We used to use air tools that needed oil daily and it would blow oil on you....so my brother put duralube in them and when the oil ran out they kept working great for about a week of constant use 7 hours a day. in fact the company bought a case of the stuff and instructed everyone to use it as they did not have to rebuild the "Palm guns" (palm guns are like air chilzels but have a rubber tip on them about 1inch round and 5 inches long with a taper on the end). They were used to pound in gaskets in windows in sky scrspers. we had to replace 16,o00 spandrals in the first bank place of minneapolis 55 stories in the air. IF your palm gun dint work you had to pound it by hand and that sucks and hurts after a while) it took a half hour to go up and down the side of the bulding on the swing and you had to coil up the hose, and power cable, so we could not have the palm guns breaking down. they would constantly need rebuilding because they ran out of convential oil and burned up. But duralube made them last way longer and you would not get oil in the face or on the window. That made me a beliver in durakube.. Now im not saying to run your tractor or car without oil, but it gotta help till the oil gets to all the parts. Duralube made the ticking that would last for 5 seconds go away comleatly even in -10` whether on my ford truck that had a inline six in it. It had 277.000 miles on it before i scrapped it. the engine was still good but the body and frame were toast, it was a 85 and was road hard and put away wet like grandpa used to say. Also I like to run a quart of ATF thru the gas to clean the valves if there not seating, worked on my 44 H, it had a miss untill i got half way thru the tank . It could fowel a plug but it din't. The person i got the tractor from drove it for god knows how long running on 3 cylinders. So it needed a good cleaning. Now i dont recomend putting tranny oil in the engine oil of a old engine as it can break away chunks and plud oil passages. But some do, Sorry for the long post.
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