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Lazarus Rises Again | This is the story of Lazarus, my 1953 Case VAC-14. I had looked at it several vears ago, the owner said it ran, but didn't want to sell. A few years later, he re considered. The tractor obviously hadn't run in years, rear tires shot, rear rims rotten. I told him about the stuck engine, and he told me if I could do anything with it to take it. It took me about an hour to unhook it from the half buried bush hog it was attached to (I later found out it had seized while mowing) I loaded it with a come along and took it home. I tried soaking it to free it up, no luck, removed the valve cover and loosened the valve adjusters, tried turning again, it moved. I pulled the head, the cylinder walls were clean and still had crosshatch. I drove the valves out with a brass punch, they looked new, so did the seats and guides. Apparently someone did a major overhaul on this tractor and never reamed the new guides, so when it got hot, it locked up. I put it back together, rebuilt the carb, starter and generator and gave it a tune up. I pressed the starter button and he hired right up (notice, no longer an 'it'). I replaced the rear tires and one rim (rebuilt the other), and the only other thing I've done is replace the dump piston on the loader. 'Lazarus', as he came to be known, was my first 'resurrection, ' I've owned plenty of tractors, but had only taken them from bad runners to good. I'm now 25 years old and have done a few since, but you never forget the feeling you get when you get one running for the first time. Scott Kaplan, CT, entered 2001-03-16 My Email Address: Not Displayed |
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Oil Bath Air Filters - by Chris Pratt. Some of us grew up thinking that an air filter was a paper thing that allowed air to pass while trapping dirt particles of a particles of a certain size. What a surprise to open up your first old tractor's air filter case and find a can that appears to be filled with the scrap metal swept from around a machine shop metal lathe. To top that off, you have a cup with oil in it ("why would you want to lubricate your carburetor?"). On closer examination (and some reading in a AC D-14 service manual), I found out that this is a pretty ingenious method of cleaning the air in the tractor's intake tract.
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