Restoring W 30

Darald · May 24, 2015

I have started to restore a red W 30 that is a few serial #'s from the one my dad bought new as his first tractor. I need a manifold, steering wheel, oil filter bolt. The other parts I have from two donor tractors, the tractor is on well worn steel, all four, so we salvaged a good set of fenders, and I have a rebuilt mag. There is also two pre cups cobbled on to the valve cover, why??? This tractor has seen a lot of work, but we will make it a trailer queen yet. Any good sources of parts would be appreciated.

D beatty · May 24, 2015

Fordson house list that they have a manifold and gasket and they may know where you can get steering wheel.The two cups on valve cover are primer cups that you put a little gasoline in to start engine.

Nebraska Cowman · May 24, 2015

What you are calling "pre-cups" may be primers for starting. Or they may be for oiling the rocker. "cobbled" makes me wonder. I guess I'd like to see a picture. Primers should be a little off to the manifold side, oilers more in the center.

Darald · May 24, 2015

These primers if they are, are located closer to the manifold side. They don't appear to be attached very well, lots of sealer kind of goop, holding them in. We will clean the tappet cover up and just see how well they are installed. They may have been leaking oil and the previous owner tried to seal them.

Nebraska Kirk · May 24, 2015

(quoted from post at 07:22:00 05/24/15) These primers if they are, are located closer to the manifold side. They don't appear to be attached very well, lots of sealer kind of goop, holding them in. We will clean the tappet cover up and just see how well they are installed. They may have been leaking oil and the previous owner tried to seal them.

Those would be the primer cups. The W30 does not have twin flip top caps for oiling the rockers, just a single quarter-turn cap.

You fill the little primer cups with gas and then unscrewed them a little to let the gas drain down into the intake, screwed the cups shut and then started the tractor. A lot of times the threads are shot and the cups won't screw tight and then the engine sucks air through them which screws up the carb settings and the engine won't run right. I still have those primer cups on my tractors but never use them and the ones that won't screw shut I sealed up with silicone.

F-Dean · May 24, 2015

A lot of W-30 parts are the same as a 10-20 except a W-30 has a water pump. Also, the engine is the same as a F-30.
This may help you find used parts. I got many parts for my W-30 from Rice Equipment-ask for Gordon Rice if he is still working.

D beatty · May 24, 2015

On my W-30 the rocker cover has two primer cups ans a large oiler cap to put oil for valve train. My F-20 has two primer cups and two small oiler cups as you described.

Brian AB · May 24, 2015

Darald, I got my manifold from steiners for my 1937 W-30. I have been ordering most of my tractor parts from Diamond Tractors as they are dealers for a lot of different suppliers. That way I don't have to deal with customs.

Nebraska Cowman · May 24, 2015

All the comments made me doubt myself. So I looked it up in the parts book. Part number 19903DX, valve cover housing with 2 oilers. Used below # AA 7042

Nebraska Cowman · May 24, 2015

That is for F30. I do not know if the double oiler cover was ever used on a W30

Nebraska Cowman · May 24, 2015

The primers are not attached to the vale cover but simply pass through it. They are threaded into the head.

36F30 · May 24, 2015

Here is a F30, The motors are exactly the same (it the reason that engine serial numbers rarely match on F30's. They just pulled one out of the engine line and prefixed it for a W30)
The Primer cups are part of the Kerosene system. If an operator switched to kerosene too early, the engine would flood on unvaporized kerosene. It would then be impossible to restart. So you closed the Kero valve and reopened the gasoline valve, drained all the Kero out of the carb. Then opened the top of the primer and filled it with gasoline. Then turn the primer, adding a measured amount of gas directly to the intake ports, then reclose the primers. You could then restart the tractor. They have absolutely no purpose on a tractor run on Gasoline, but these were all built as gas start Kerosene tractors.

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