hey mike I don't know how "rare" they are as most of the tractors came from the factory with one. My mower tractor (43H) has the small tank. Now the correct way to set it up is the glass jar or sediment filter goes under the main tank....The top of the sediment filter has and extra inlet for the small tank. basiclly there is a shut off valve on each tank. the is NO sediment filter on the small tank just a line that goes to the top of the sediment filter, and a shut off valve at the bottom of the small tank. So when you were running tractor fuel or kero you would shut off the big tank and open the little one up and start the tractor on gasoline. with the shutters closed and the manifold adjusted to the proper setting you would wait till it was to the "run" position on the temp gauge. then you would close the little tank off and open the big tanks valve thus switching it to kero or tractor gas. Now adays it dosent pay to run kero and i dont know if they even make tractor gas anymore. Anyways the tank can still be utilized.....I use the small tank for my "reserve" As if i run the main tank dry i just open the small tank and shut the big one so i can make it to the fuel barrel. some guys when using the big tank for gas will open the big and the small tank to give them an extra gallon of gas. I like to keep the small one closed so i have a reserve. But if you leave them both open they will go down at the same rate. But there is only one glass jar that is the sediment filter (mine is glass) and it goes under the big tank and has an extra opening on the grey top piece that allows you to hook up an exta line to it, from the small tank. Lots of farmers and dealers took the small tank off when they converted it to gas, i don't know why, as they could of left the small tank on for a reserve. this may be the reason why most of the tanks are gone. when first going to look at a tractor the two most common things missing are the cover that goes on the nose, and the small tank. luckley mine still had the small tank and all i had to do was swap out the top of the sediment filter to a duel fuel type top and away i went. Also i had to take the little tank off and cleen it out good as the cap was missing when i got it. Hope this helps.
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