Re: Ironguard paint and a manifold mystery

Posted by Farmall Gray on September 25, 2001 at 07:41:50 from (152.163.201.67):

In Reply to: Ironguard paint and a manifold mystery posted by BTD on September 24, 2001 at 04:18:42:

Some paints are more durable than others, But I don't think any paint will totally resist gas constanly dripping on it. I painted my F-12 about 10 yrs ago with urethane paint. Over the years, the sediment bowl leaked a few times and it stained the paint on drive coupling cover. It didn't wrinkle it off though. This was very expensive paint-about $125.00 a gallon. The best thing to do is to fix the leaks so that the gas doesn't drip on the paint. All of the operators manuals that I have read on these old tractors recommend that you shut off the gas when the tractor is not in use. I have gotten in to the habit of shutting the gas off it it going to sit for more than an hour on all of my tractors. Some times sediment bowls will leak when the gas is on.
This is bad. They can be fixed so that they don't leak. I have had good success with repaking the valves with graphite faucet packing. Do not use teflon packing. I use rubber bowl gaskets and they still have to be replaced every once in a while. As for carb leaks, most will occur when the tractor is sitting with the gas turned on and the engine not running. They will drip if you over choke it. they are supposed to do this so that the gas doesn't build up in the bottom of the carb. The Farmall regular had a little drip pan under the carb that let the gas run out past the frame rail to the ground. You could make something like this out of a plastic jug. Maybe you could even find a red jug or oil bottle that wouldn't look so obvious. On my Dad's one tractor,
He drilled the weep hole out on the carb and put in a brass elbow and a piece of copper tubing so that what leaked out dripped on the ground. This may not be a good idea if the tractor is run in a lot of dust because it would draw unfilterd air in through the tubing.

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