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Tom Bowman

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If you've just finished re-torqing the head and re-adjusting the valves on your TO-20, and hear a horrible jangling metallic sound from the front of the engine when you start it up: (1) walk to the front of the tractor; and (2) remove your homemade crank handle from the crank pulley, where you were using it to turn the engine by hand to set the valves. :oops:

Probably nobody other than me would ever need this tip!

No harm done, thanks to the fact that the handle disengages from the crank pulley when the engine starts.
 
Yeah that's why I always hunted for the proper crank for whatever I owned. A socket and ratchet is a bad idea, almost everything except the proper crank is a bad idea.
I guess even before the model T cranks had the undersized pins to barely fit in the angled slots. Wrists, arms and faces were harder to fix back then... and hurt the same as it would now!
 
Yep, I can see that happening. It sure get's the heart rate up for a minute when things like that happen.

Dan
 
(quoted from post at 10:52:12 04/14/15) Yeah that's why I always hunted for the proper crank for whatever I owned. A socket and ratchet is a bad idea, almost everything except the proper crank is a bad idea.
I guess even before the model T cranks had the undersized pins to barely fit in the angled slots. Wrists, arms and faces were harder to fix back then... and hurt the same as it would now!
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Yikes! A socket and ratchet, or an open-end wrench, would have been really exciting! (Good thing I couldn't find one that fit...)

I made my handle out of a piece of conduit with a 90-degree bend, with a piece of rod to fit in the slots. It's short enough to fit with the hood open, and I only use it to turn the engine, not start it.
 
Good call Tom.

Just did the exact same thing, left the crank handle in there and wack someone with it when they where standing in range of it and was starting it. It made me laugh, no harm done :oops:
 
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