texas flood

dewy · Jun 3, 2016

i wonder how many antique tractors have been ruined from that flood..............dewy

kub6040 · Jun 3, 2016

My uncle has a 1950 H farmall , that is wet . I don't know how wet but it quit him a while back and he left it near the back of his property and said he could see the seat and muffler yesterday ain't talked to him today .

wjytexas · Jun 3, 2016

I don't know but don't buy any late model used cars registered in Texas for a while.

onefarmer · Jun 3, 2016

I'd take a drowned Farmall H over a drowned latest model of any other tractor any day.

kub6040 · Jun 3, 2016

Yeah , drain it dry it new oil and go another 65 years , I don't think he is overly worried about it as his house and shop would be much more serious.

dcarp · Jun 3, 2016

Craigslist & E-bay will be flooded with used cars.

oldtanker · Jun 3, 2016

(quoted from post at 10:37:33 06/03/16) Yeah , drain it dry it new oil and go another 65 years , I don't think he is overly worried about it as his house and shop would be much more serious.

Your comment got me to thinking. Had IH or for that matter Ford NOT made so many H's and N's most would be long gone. Many parts, especially transmission parts are NLA and have been for some time. Heck crack a head for the H or window a block with a rod and the only parts source is a donor. Had there been no spares available from donors very darn few would still be running today. Prime example is the gas start diesel IH made. Finding parts is near impossible like a head. IH put them in tractors and crawlers both. But compared to the H very limited production. Donors are few and far between.

I feel for the people going through the flooding. Losses like that can be devastating.

Rick

RBoots · Jun 3, 2016

No kidding. What a wiring nightmare that would be. We had bought Freightliner trucks at work for 4 years, but kept having innumerable issues with wiring/sensors/emissions. Usually only in winter.
We along with the dealer figured it was moisture in the wiring causing the issues. Don't know if you have ever seen the underside of a scraper truck in winter, but they are a solid block of ice front to back. Anyway, the dealer suggested this special treatment they had to offer for EVERY connector on the truck, so we went with it on one truck. That truck also had a sister truck exactly the same as it ordered at the same time. Same usual problems with all the electronic/sensor/emissions on the sister truck that wasn't treated, no big surprise there. Ah. But how did the "treated" truck do? That thing has more electrical problems than any of the other Freightliners we have. We have since quit buying the Freightliner trucks and now buy Peterbilt trucks. We have very few issues with them so far.

Ross

Mtractor · Jun 3, 2016

I don't know about tractors but a few cars and pickups in Lubbock!!!

Married2Allis · Jun 3, 2016

Saw a bunch of 'flood' cars after Hurricane Agnes in 1972. Most of what we worked on came back to life. That was back in the days of points, plugs, simple connectors and light bulbs.

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