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TxFarmall
10-16-2007 08:50:19
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Re: C/Super C carb in reply to Mike CA, 10-15-2007 11:29:44
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RedNeckSuperC said: (quoted from post at 00:45:38 10/16/07) Where did you find a 133" C?
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It kinda found me, I was looking for an old cheap tractor for my sister and her husband back in the early 80's. They were all back to nature types back in the 70's when they got married in their 20's years ago and broke as can be.
They managed to buy a few acres out in the country, with a about 1/2 mile of dirt driveway to get to it and every time I visited and it rained I got stuck trying to leave, as they did often. I figured I'd get an old tractor so they could work their road and pull out stuck friends.
I had a customer I worked on his water well from time to time with this old farmall beside his house with a cultivator underneath and a long sickle cutter on the back. I asked what he wanted for it a few times and he never wanted to sell it. Seems he used it for cutting hay and needed it.
One time I was out he asked me if I still wanted it, I asked how much, and he said if you want it, take it. Seems a hand forgot to put the old tin can over the muffler top and it got water in the engine and stuck it.
He tried to sell it to a tractor shop, and the guy offered him $500.00 and I guess that offended him and he told him he would rather give it away, and I happened to be first guy he saw to give it to. :)
So I hauled it away and unstuck it, that was over ten years ago. It finally got bad enough that some valves stuck open and push rods fell out from under the rockers, that and I had found a piece of piston skirt in the oil way back when I originally unstuck it, I decided this year to go ahead and spend a little money on it and I did new sleeves and pistons, a valve job and new rod bearings.
I really can't believe the thing ran for ten years with a cracked piston, it had a crack all the way across the top of the piston and down both sides, but in a way that the crack didn't pass through the piston pin journal. The rings are all that held it together.
Also in that last ten years my folks bought an adjoining 15 acres to my sisters, so they need it even more for keeping the road up and mowing.
I'll probably end up buying an adjoining 7 acres to theirs at some point.
Now if I could just find a fast hitch setup for it I might even blast it clean and paint it back up. It's looking pretty sorry sitting out in the weather as long as it has.
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