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Hi, Sorry for the delay in crossposting this. I hadn't thought of putting up for sale here as this is 'crawler land'. Silly me. We all also like tractors, right? Well, I have one tractor too many. I never use this any more. I originally got this to part out as I was doing up a Phase-III 420w at the ...

Hi, Once. Back about 1976 or so. I still have the original, worn on both sides. Dad used her heavily from 66 to 76, and then the roads were cut, the house built and the pool put in. So, after that she took it a lot easier and so the 'new' cutting edge is still on it's first side. :) What I wish I ha...

Hi, Wasn't there also a tilt version of the outside mount blade? Seems to me that I've seen those, although I can't recall the model number. Or, am I thinking about a blade on a 1010? I know the 350 had an outside blade with angle and tilt, as the one I had was like that. But, I seem to recall seein...

Hi, Careful with that pick. I screwed up the seal on my 420c doing that. After 50+ years I had to get a new one because I caused it to leak. Now, I just use the end of one of those Scott blue shop towels to clean the groove. So, I might get more duty time out of the new seal than I did the old one! ...

Hi,

Well, he's still using it. It runs well now, so he must have exorcised all the gremlins.

Looking at it now, it's not such a bad little machine at all. I guess that's true for most pieces of equipment, they're OK as long as they're still working!

later!

Stan

Hi, The contact end of the rotor ought to be pointing at #1, which is the right-hand connection on top of the distributor. Or your points ought to be just ramping up the slope for the first lobe to open back up. Either way that should tell you you're somewhere near correct as far as the distributor ...

Hi, There's a spark timing port on the right hand side of the bell housing. It's usually under a swing-away cover held by a single screw. When #1 is coming up on compression, there's a timing mark on the flywheel marked 'spark' that you can see when it's time for the points to open. You can set that...

Hi, I actually don't see the use of such a thing. Yes, the gasket can leak after 50+ years and they're a breeze to change out when it does happen. The paper elements are less costly than even the Ford and Chevy spin-on filters at the local auto parts store. If you change the oil with the engine warm...

Hi, Too bad you're not down here in NC near me. I'd offer to 'store' the machine here and keep it out of your way, seeing as it's a spare. I'd even put an addition onto the barn to keep it out of the weather while I was 'storing' it for you. Of course, you'd have to leave me a key so I could start i...

Question, In the last photo, what are the two long levers, low on the right of the dash, pointing horizontally and to the front?? Look like they have black round knobs on them. I've not seen anything like that before?? What do they do? Gus Hi, Yes, the one with the knob on it is the 4-speed gearshi...

Hi, Yeah, the stickers are a lot more robust than the older method of screenprinting the things on. To get the color to pass thru the silkscreen mesh, it has to be really thin with tiny pigment particles. It's actually considered ink, not paint. The yellow stripes and the lettering on these 420's we...

Hi, They need to be stored online, like on Photobucket or some such place. Looks like you put in a line pointing to the directory on your own computer. They get put on using a line like this: [ IMG]http://i902.photobucket.com/albums/ac227/wa2kqy/420c/JD420c2.jpg[/IMG ] Which gets you this: http://i9...

Hi, So. That's what a 420 looks like with paint on it. It's been so long since mine had any, I'd forgotten what it was supposed to look like! I like that shot with the 420 in the middle of the big toys. I was once offered a free D8 - one of the old cable blade jobs. I balked on (a) the cost of hauli...

Oh I don't know, first thing I do with anything I restore for myself is put it in the dirt, that's what they are for. Nothing more fun that playing with a "new" 50 year old crawler after you spent months (years) rebuilding it. Lavoy Do you bother to paint the moldboard and the track pads the way th...

Hi,

Man, oh, man!

later!

Stan