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Is there such a thing as a farmall 400 all fuel? I saw a listing for a gas/ kerosen farmall 400 can anyone give me any information on this?
 
If you see one they are a little hard to fugure out. You see a diesel injection pump on one side, and sparkplugs on the other. I don't know about all fuel, but the one I have is started on gas, and switched to diesel when the motor warms up. I guess they can be called all fuel, because they will run on gas, diesel, or kerosen. Stan
 
(quoted from post at 00:50:49 12/15/11) Is there such a thing as a farmall 400 all fuel? I saw a listing for a gas/ kerosen farmall 400 can anyone give me any information on this?[/quo

Accoprding to the IH Tractor Data book by Guy Fay the 400 was not offered with an all fuel "distillate" (kerosene) burrning engine. If it is an all fuel tractor there will be a small one gallon starting tank in addition to the regular fuel tank and will not have an injector pump---if it is a Diesel tractor it will have the aux starting tank and an injector pump plus the chassis prefix will be F-400 DHC .....Ed

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IH did not call them all fuels, they made gasoline, kerosene, and distillate engines through the 450 -- not many were made after the letter series though.
 
I'm not speaking for Guy Fay, who did an excellent job with all his books. By the time the 400 appeared there was little demand for distillate or kerosene engines (they are not the same), at least not in the US, so he didn't mention them.
 
Chief, you're a little incorrect there in your description...you've described the gas start/ diesel version of the 400 which was pretty popular by the time 400's were built. The rare all fuel or kerosene/tractor fuel burner has practically the same fuel system as a straight gas burner, there's no injectors or injection pump on the engine, just a heat shield around the special exhaust and intake manifold. There is a small gas tank for starting and warming the engine up on. When the engine is warmed up enough you shut off the gas supply and turn on the fuel supply with little fuel valves in each supply line. The carburetor and throttle system is virtually the same as on the straight gas burners. The all fuel burners have somewhat lower power ratings than the straight gas or diesel models because the fuel just doesn't have quite the BTU's of diesel and doesn't burn as readily or quite as clean as gasoline because it doesn't mix as readily with air and requires a lower compression ratio to eliminate pre-ignition knock from exploding instead of burning.
 
(quoted from post at 16:50:49 12/14/11) Is there such a thing as a farmall 400 all fuel? I saw a listing for a gas/ kerosen farmall 400 can anyone give me any information on this?
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YES! The start on gasoline, run on distillate/kerosene option was available all the way up to and including the Farmall 450. The magneto ignition system was also available up to and including the 450.
 
Thanks to everyone for the replys, looks like we bought us a Farmall 400 gas/kerosene needs a little work but the tin is in very good shape.
We r going to pick it up next week.
Thanks again!
Monica
 
(quoted from post at 08:19:24 12/15/11) Thanks to everyone for the replys, looks like we bought us a Farmall 400 gas/kerosene needs a little work but the tin is in very good shape.
We r going to pick it up next week.
Thanks again!
Monica
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Excellent!!! I've seen only ONE, and it was/is in a museum.
 
We found a guy in our area who knows just about everything Farmall he wants to come see it when we get it home. I am getting kind of excited to see it for real myself. Will have to wait until next week :-(
 
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