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bg/red

07-27-2007 13:48:36




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Bought a 450 diesel with new head,injectors,rings, and bearings.Tractor runs very strong and has 2900 original hrs.I would like to turn the pump up for a little additional power.How much power can one reasonably expect to gain? I have been told no more than 60hp.Is this true?




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billde

07-27-2007 18:39:11




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 Re: farmall 450 diesel in reply to bg/red, 07-27-2007 13:48:36  
Pay close attention to tractor vets advice on warming up and cooling down. If you decide to shut down on gas throw the lever back to diesel as soon as it dies to prevent valve warpage. Yes, 60 hp is a good stopping point.



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the tractor vet

07-27-2007 17:04:03




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 Re: farmall 450 diesel in reply to bg/red, 07-27-2007 13:48:36  
Ran mine ALOT higher then that but ya need to do more then just twist the screw. Now the down side to twisten the screw is if ya ain't realy up on that engine and now today with parts hard to come by and the price of them best not to go over 10% . And listen to what i tell ya never go to the field with out gas in the starting tank , never stall her and no be able to get it restarted FAST as this can cause the head to crack or the block . Never ever get the bright idea to MIX up a batch of super fuel to get more pony power like my buddy did on his Nitro makes real nice ROUND holes in pistons and makes all these cobweb things in the head. We ran 450 D's for awhile and worked the snot out of them . Always let the tractor warm up for awhile before putting it to work and always let it cool way down before shut down . Some guys will tell ya to switch back to gas before shut down but many many years ago and old I H mechanic told me that if ya switch back to the gas side and let it run on gas instead of cooling down the combustion chambers get hotter . I and may buddy always shut down after cool down and what i mean by that when we were working them and the temp was up on the runwe would set them at around 800-900 RPM and let them cool down till the temp gauge said COLD then shut them down . My old 450 is still running not far from my place and i have tryed many times to buy it back but the guy will not sell or trade as i even offered him a 706 diesel in trade.

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bg/red

07-27-2007 18:13:50




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 Re: farmall 450 diesel in reply to the tractor vet, 07-27-2007 17:04:03  
Tractor Vet, how many horsepower will 10% give me.



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the tractor vet

07-27-2007 19:35:13




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 Re: farmall 450 diesel in reply to bg/red, 07-27-2007 18:13:50  
Some where around 65 and it would be wise to bump the pump timing up +2 degress . Back when my buddy and i were farmen we ran ours alot higherbut back then parts were not hard to find and we had the time and money that when something let go we just fixed it and went on as maken spare parts must have been our goal in life . That old 450 was one heck of a tractor if ya ran it wright and did not get to carried away with tryen to win every tractor pull . Mine was a tric. and my buddys was a wide ft. both fast hitch , both pulled 4x14 540 semi mounts . In corn ground it was 3rd stick ahead and in sod sometimes 3rd but most 2nd unless we got into the other neighbors home brew and got crazy and opened the pumps up and then it was 4th in corn ground . you could count the rounds around the field on a still day with the row of black smoke hanging in the air and at night you could see over a foot of fire out the pipe . The hotter ya got them the better they would run , they ran better at the vary top of the run on the temp gauge. When we pulled them we would throw a feed or fertilizer sack over the rad to get them hot . They would plum eat a 560 or a 3020 and give a 4020 and 806 a run for there money maybe not as fast but would flat pull the distance but putting them in the 12500 class was scarry they would creek and crack and pop but they would drag that sled .

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georgeky

07-27-2007 14:42:20




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 Re: farmall 450 diesel in reply to bg/red, 07-27-2007 13:48:36  
I don't know the limit, as I haven't tried it yet with mine, but have heard here and other places that 70 is possible.



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