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Hi, My 1950 'M' wheel tractor still has a white-faced oil pressure gauge that I believe it came with, which reads correctly without pegging. It also still has the original white-faced ammeter, too. The water temp gauge is an auto parts store replacement since the original's line got parted when the ...

Hi,

Excellent! I love it when a plan comes together like this!

BTW, there's a similar screen that's part of the inlet fitting on the old gasser carbs, too. Causes the same grief, too!

Stan

Hi, The problem that manifests itself with these little fuel filtering screens is that the engine runs great for a minute or so, and then slowly dies out. The reason is that the filters and screens pass a little fuel thru and wind up filling the lines and pumps and whatnot when the engine is off, wh...

Hi, I remember an old Cat Sixty that sat in a shed at the edge of a farm on top of a sizable hill back where I grew up. The county highway dept. owned it and it had a Vee plow on it. The road was cut thru a pass with cornfields on both sides, so the snow would drift into the cut and block the road. ...

Hi, I have an original Magnatrac, made by Struck, that looks almost identical. Mine has a blade rather than a bucket, and the thing is useless. It digs in OK, and the tracks grip, but the blade then knuckles under and that's as far as it goes. It is useful for puching snow around, as long as it's no...

Hi, Yeah, we're all pretty much in the same boat with you in this respect. Just last week, I spyed a set of decent looking JD combine tracks and frames on eBay for $300 and just had to ask if they might fit anything crawler from the Lindemann to the 450. The answer was 'no' but if it had been 'yes' ...

Hi, It seems to me that if left alone, the water vapor and oxygen in the air will have a harder time getting to the mating surfaces of the fiber and steel discs and screwing them up. If one props the levers back, that just opens up the space between the discs and would allow the offending gases grea...

Hi, My dad, the machinist/toolmaker always referred to these final drive castings as 'cast steel', for what that's worth. He was quite the welder, though, working in his brother's tractor dealership as the machinist/parts maker fixing all manner of busted things with the welder and machine tools. I ...

Hi, I still have some cans that held the alky-based anti-freeze that I use for oddball nut and bolt storage in the shop. It was DuPont Zerone brand, and it was really pure methanol in a fancy can. Some years back, I had this 1933 Ford 5-window coupe that I tended to commute to work in. It had a shro...

Hi, He didn't build any castles in one of those swamps, did he? Sorry, oddball Monty Python reference. Don't worry if you don't get it. :P That's a great photo, esp so since it's family! We'll ignore that it's a Cat in the shot. Heck, it has tracks, and that makes it cool in my book, anyway! :) Stan

Hi, Not much on the 450's cross to the 350's, as they're larger than the 350 in all respects (4 cyl vs. 3-cyl and different transmission styles, etc). There are a lot of parts on the 350B that cross back to the straight 350, at least up until the very end of the 350B production, when they look more ...

Hi, Well, there's no point in getting them if they don't fit anything else we're likely to have, even at the way low price of $300. I sure as heck will not be buying a rice combine to stick these tracks on anytime soon! ;) It's just something that popped up on the old eBay radar screen and I figured...

Hi, The whole idea of the ether is to fire off just a little under compression such that it puts a little heat into the combustion chamber and that, in turn, will allow the diesel fuel to try to catch. After that, I have, at times, had to keep turning the starter for a few more seconds while the die...

Hi, It's a lot like a pressure washer in that it has a water pump on a motor, but the water is run thru a boiler and so spits out both steam and water. It spits out less liquid water than a pressure washer but the pressures are in the same range. I think of a pressure washer as being a steam cleaner...

Hi,

It does look grey in that photo.

Yes, I know it's B&W and it's *all* grey!

Farmall Red in a B&W photo looks more like black or dark blue, and that T20 is way too light in shade, so it was probably grey.

Said the long-time B&W photographer.

Stan