Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: skyarrow on November 12, 2012, 04:30:45 pm
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Last week we worked on a guys well and while working i noticed a old d12 under a shed so i asked him what was wrong with it. He sed before he parked it 4 years ago it was gitting hot. He sed being close to 80 he does not want to mess with it anymore . So after our short conversation i went back to work. After we finished replacing his pump in his well my dad was making the bill out i went over to look at it as i was testing levers,stearing the oil the customer sed to me you can have it for 200$ shredder and all hehe. So now im working on restoring it to operating condition iv pulled the fuel tank off already and dumped the old fuel out to find 1/4 pf varnish in tue bottom no biggie il clean it out. Im soaking the heads woth diesal it feels a little stuck tryn to turn it over by hand i think in a few weeks she should be running like a champ. If i cant clean the radiater il just core it instead
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Thats a cool old tractor, Sterling. Probably old enough that all you need is a pair of pliers, a wrench or two, a hammer and bailing wire to work on it. ;D
Does it have a water pump? You might check the head gasket too, check the cylender compression.
Heck, it is worth $200 in scrap metal.
When you get it working I'd like to borrow it to scrape my driveway. ;D
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Sterling, I wish you well, though I must say I hate old tractors. Between the old Ford I left in Nebraska, and the old A/C at the lease down here, I have given much blood sweat and tears over them. The odds of an old tractor breaking down are directly proportional to how bad you need it... ::)
Good luck,
George
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That looks like a fun project. I hope you get it running.
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Hmmmm......... Brings back lots of memories. Too bad there not good ones.
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My neighbor is a master mechanic he specializes in tractors and equipment ect...... i think im going to be in good hands fixing this d12 its sleeved so if its major it can still be fixed easly :)
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"The odds of an old tractor breaking down are directly proportional to how bad you need it..." ;D
I used to own one of those, George. A 1947 Ford 9N. Every time I needed it I had to fix it first. ::)
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Man do I understand. Mine was a 1956 Ford 841. I spent some chilly days trying to get that old thing running so I could plow snow. Makes me shivver just thinking about it. Some good memories too, but not too many. ;)
George
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Once you got it running good again I'll give you 304 delivered >:D
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Nice project,I love old tractors. :)
Pappy
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Things are looking good this morning i put the transmition in high gear and slowly started to rock the tractor and it was free woot now time to tear down the carb and clean it. The fuel tank is soaking to desolv the gas sludge that was on the bottom of it
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Man do I understand. Mine was a 1956 Ford 841. I spent some chilly days trying to get that old thing running so I could plow snow. Makes me shivver just thinking about it. Some good memories too, but not too many. ;)
George
Surely you jest! Does it ever really get cold in TX?!? Must be refering to Nebraska! ::) ;)
Scott
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Surely you jest! Does it ever really get cold in TX?!? Must be refering to Nebraska! ::) ;)
Scott
It gets chilly here occasionally, but seldom cold. I'm acclimated a little, but I'm not like the natives and to illustrate the difference... it was 38 degrees this morning. As I got in the car, my neighbor across the street was walking by in full cold weather gear, her face not visible. I was in short sleeves. She stopped and commented that yesterday morning, when it was 28, she had seen I was wearing a long sleeve shirt and that cold weather might be here. I had to laugh. I do keep a coat in the car down here, but almost never wear it. Last year it actually got cold enough in Dallas that both my outdoor faucets broke. We run the pool pump when it goes below 36 to make sure those pipes don't freeze and even with that the pool got about a half inch of ice on it last winter. That was unusual. Normally it goes well above freezing every day so in the unlikely event it snows there's little chance to hunt on it. That and ice fishing are what I miss most about the midwest.
Up in Nebraska, where I fought that old Ford, the winter was a whole nuther deal. Trying to get an old tractor to turn over and fire up when it's below zero is absolutely maddening. Even when I got it going, the odds all 4 cylinders would be firing still weren't very good. I can't believe I lived there all that time and never put a block heater on that Ford.
George
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Reminds me of the 1 winter I lived near Killeen. They got a half inch of snow over night and the entire town shut down. No school, no gas, no groceries, bank, mail, nothing! Folks just never came in to work on account of the snow. I had the highways to myself! No snow plows or salt trucks. No police. I could t believe how dead that town was with a little white stuff on the roads. Very different than where I was raised.
Scott
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Yup, a little bad weather causes a shutdown in these parts.
Sterling, I used to be in an antique tractor forum. Some of the old timers have a ton of knowledge and if you're like me you'll be needing some of it. Hope it turns out to be a real nice tractor for you.
George
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Thanx george i think it will be. my neighbor sed this brand was more reliable then the ford tractors and since its sleeved, the block can always be rebuilt :). He has worked on lots of tractors in his mechanic carear i have faith it will work out. So far so good :). And if not its deffinitly worth atleast 200$ in junk price
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Sterling, I think you should go with this upgrade to your tractor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqBy92fTXsg
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Haha nice clint looks like a turbo and cold air intake. That tractor was diesel lots of low end :)
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28 thats not bad it was 3 below here the otherday and it always hits 45 below at least once every year 2 years ago it hit 69 below one day not including a 15mph wind
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Good news i took the carb apart and it was spotless ;D looks like the last owner drained it before he parked it woot
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Looks like the starter need to rebuilt hopefuly this week i can take it in :) onece its back on il re run the comression test and then star it up if itsgood :)
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Thanx for the info scott i dont plan on scrapping this d12 hehe with theblock having sleeves il rebuild it if it comes to that ;) so far so good i just pickd the starte up from the rebuild plac its servo went out. Now i can run a good compression test :D im so close to starting it up so excited hehe
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ITS ALIVE :) this morning i ran the compression test which was good and cranked her up. Turns out the battery i have is bad so my dad pulld me with his truck i dumped the clutch and vroom it started right up haha im so excited it ran. about 15 min of running it started to over heat like the last owner sed. After it cooled down abit i Pulled the thermostat housing off to check it and what do you know it wasnt in there and since the outside temp wasnt blistering hot it looks like il need a new radiator not to bad of a fix hopefully il order one in a few weeks and crank her up again with a new thermostat. Fingers crossed she wont over heat
Here is a video of me recording the temp guage to almost it overheating she sounds good
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Way to go, sounds great. I thought I was lucky? ;D
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Thanx eddie im plannIng to pull the radiater and take it into a radiater shop here in town they sed they could rod it and or just recore it
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wow from that photo the tires on it look great! mine are all shredded from flint out here.
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They have some dryrot but there still holding air :)
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Nice Sterling! Congrats.
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Well the new radiator came in yesterday ;D and she runs great nice and cool around 180dgf
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Here is a pic of me testing the shredder it's works very well
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All right Sterling! Way to stick with it. You can't hardly kill an old tractor.
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You plowing up arrowheads >:D nice work!
Tracy
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Who needs sheet metal?!! Great work Sterling, good to see it running. Were you bush hogging?
George
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nice job Sterling.cool tractor.
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Yeah i was using a shredder its the only implement i have :)
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Who needs sheet metal?!! Great work Sterling, good to see it running. Were you bush hogging?
George
Il put the hood back on in a few days im making sure there arnt any other leaks before its on hehe iv had to replace one steel oil line already and lools like another mite be leaking :). Super easy fixes here compared to the other problems it had hehe
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I understand completely. The unstyled old JD tractors didn't look much different with their sheet metal.
George
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Awesome Sterling. Great job on saving a piece of history. My dad had an old Aliss Chamber Cat and I loved playing with it. It went with the ranch when he sold and moved back to Texas ::)
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You did a great job on that Sterling.
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Nice handy little tractor there.Kuddos to you for reserecting it from the dead.Put a hose heater on it to start in the winter.Should'nt even hardly need that though with it being a gasser.I don't know if it's possible but a conversion to a 12 volt system would help considerably on those colder mornings.Now you can search for more attachments for it.I always liked being out in the open driving a tractor except when it's -20 F with wind and moving snow.You might be able to find a make shift type of heat houser for it though too.The list will go on and on.
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I don't think that tractor's gonna see even +20 very often down in Houston. It's gonna lead a life of weather luxury, though that radiator's gonna be real important next July.
George
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Yeah our winter is feb thats it haha and if we are lucky itl be 40deg ;) its the 100+ heat in the summer thats a killer on equipment thanx for the info and i lucked out it was already converted to 12v :)