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Re: Farmall 140 Spark Plug Gap and AL part number

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tn terry t

02-19-2008 20:03:55




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+look to the left of your screen serial nunmer listings looks like yours is a 1958 mine is a 62 aint never seen 90+ octane 87 is just fine i have d- 18 plugs they seem to run better than the d-16 in this one i have 1952 Super A that will not run on champion plugs i can put a set in there it wont last a month right now i have 386{i think thats the right #}autolites
the autolites been in there bout a yr now. i have three of these little fellers wouldnt tace a farm in texas for them. ALWAYS LOOKING FOR MORE OF THEM 40 A 52Super A 62 140

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TractormanNC

02-20-2008 16:04:01




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 Re: Farmall 140 Spark Plug Gap and AL part number in reply to tn terry t, 02-19-2008 20:03:55  
Hugh, Have been reading your posts about the offsets ever since I discovered YT a couple years ago. It might be the "southern gas" but my $0.02 is this. From what I can tell you WORK your tractors as they were designed. Most of the guys with these offsets seem to just putz around with them. When we used M's and SA's for hard field work, we always used D-16 plugs with no problems. Now that these tractors have been sort of "retired" (like myself) to pulling hay wagons and hay rakes I have had to go to D-18's and D-21's to keep from fouling plugs. Sorry for the long one.
Leonard

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Red Mist

02-20-2008 17:14:57




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 Re: Farmall 140 Spark Plug Gap and AL part number in reply to TractormanNC, 02-20-2008 16:04:01  
Leonard:
IH says you are exactly right. The GSS-1356 IH Tune-up specs Manual covers this very thing and recommends different spark plugs for different degrees of duty for the tractors. Severe duty takes a colder plug and medium and light duty take hotter plugs. You hit the nail on the head.
mike



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Hugh MacKay

02-20-2008 16:21:28




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 Re: Farmall 140 Spark Plug Gap and AL part number in reply to TractormanNC, 02-20-2008 16:04:01  
Leonard: I under stand that one, and your right, almost every thing my tractors do are much as they did 50 years ago. Probably less often than back then, but we go at it just as hard as we did back then.

I like to see a tractor loaded to it's rated horse power. Never could stand a big tractor driving down the field doing very little. I know most folks find it surprising that one could work Farmalls SA, 130, 300, 560, 656, 1066 and an articulated Deere all on the same farm. It was about matching the tractor to the work. I'll probably never change, I still rise at 5 am every morning, still eat bacon and two eggs every morning. Hell the pork and chicken industry need me.

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Hugh MacKay

02-20-2008 01:58:16




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 Re: Farmall 140 Spark Plug Gap and AL part number in reply to tn terry t, 02-19-2008 20:03:55  
terry: Not sure why so many of you guys have trouble with Champion plugs. I have D-16 in my SA and 130 that have been there over 6 years.



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teddy52food

02-20-2008 09:50:55




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 Re: Farmall 140 Spark Plug Gap and AL part number in reply to Hugh MacKay, 02-20-2008 01:58:16  
I wonder if it is that Southern gas? I also run champion D15Y and D 16 with no problem. I think the D 18 Y replaces the D15 Y now.



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Hugh MacKay

02-20-2008 15:06:01




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 Re: Farmall 140 Spark Plug Gap and AL part number in reply to teddy52food, 02-20-2008 09:50:55  
Teddy: It might just be interesting to take a poll on that very subject. I've been using D-16 Champions since I was 16, my dad used them before me. I've started them in all kinds of cold weather, never seem to be short of power when around other tractors. Up to 1990 I regularly had them dynoed.

Maybe it is southern versus northern gas. I've also thought of another factor, and you no doubt experience the same in MN. We know where the large population centers are. Here if we are getting south, south-west or south-east breeze the sky turns into a blue haze. All it takes is 5 mph northerly breeze, and we have no blue haze, I breath easier, maybe the tractor does also. I do know both tractor and I require oxygen to function.

I only ever had chest pains once in my life, that being one morning 8am I-75 just south of I-94 in Detroit, a section of freeway, where it's concrete both sides as high as a truck. Traffic was very slow stop and go. Plain and simple, there was no damn oxygen left down in there. I never let it happen again, NO DETROIT IN RUSH HOUR.

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