Farmall H Carburetor ice up problem

Hi,

I thought I'd show you guys the part I made for my Farmall H.
My Farmall H has always had a problem in the winter that the top of the carburetor
would get ice building up on it and the tractor ran very bad. My H always starts fast and runs
excellent, but when the carburetor ices up from the cold air being sucked into the carburetor,
it totally messes up the way it runs. I once asked a tractor man why my H had this problem,
and he said my air cleaner was probably plugged. I cleaned it, and it still had the problem.
Here is what I did. I took a heater pipe and cut a hole in the side of it. I put a rubber hose in the hole
and made sure it fit in tight, then I put some duct tape around it to seal it up. I removed the air cleaner top and put the end of the hose into the air cleaner pipe. Now, the tractor takes in hot air from the heat of the outside of the muffler. Now the tractor does not have the ice up problem and it runs excellent in the cold too! I thought I'd show you this just in case your tractor has this problem. This part is easy to make and makes a huge difference!

Andy.

The factory solution to the problem is to have two small holes in the bottom front corners of the exhaust manifold to blow some exhaust down in front of the carb. The air front the radiator fan then blows this hot exhaust past the outside of the carb. If you will look closely at the the manifold I sure you will find these holes are plugged. Cleaning them out almost always cures the icing problems.

Very good idea...but a old one...had this on my H for 25 years and it works well

Sorry to reply twice but I figured out how to post photo I think...this is my version of hot air induction I made years ago on '50 model loader H

Great idea!

Alex

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Andy.