Resurrection of another B

My neighbor had a B in his barn that he wanted to start up... a 48 model ser 239XXX with round rear axles and a well-engineered 3 pt. It had been painted at some point in the near past and looked real good. He has had it for 5 years and (of course) said the former owner had it running. Ha Ha. I took the carb and mag off. The choke was inoperable as the shaft pin didn't mate with the lever and some of the passages were stopped up. Soaked it, cleaned it and installed a kit. Put it on my B and broke an acre of land. Good. The mag's impulse mechanism was inoperable. No snap, just a 2-fingered click. All the drive parts had wallowed flats so there was 3/8 inch play. Roberts had a 90 dollar impulse kit and points. Fixed that.

Late yesterday I went to his shop and we pulled it out, popped the clutch a few times to unstick the engine, drained the gas/oil mixture from the crankcase and added fresh oil.

Smelling an excuse for a party, the ladies showed up and started cooking soft-shelled crabs, flounder and chicken wings and they all put the heat on me to "Crank her up."

So... I slapped the carb on, cut on the gas and no leaks. Whew. Then, with a young guy to turn the flywheel, we lined up the timing marks on imulse, checked for spark on the top terminal and installed the mag. Rotated the fly around to TDC again and tapped the mag back... all the way and no snap. Thinking I did something wrong, we did the process again... no snap, but when I removed the mag it snapped... something fishy going on here. Took the cap off of the governor and Bingo... the timing marks were off 180 degrees! Tell me again this tractor was running! So... I re-timed the marks, put the mag on, it snapped and I locked her down. With everyone staring at me I applied the choke, gave her half-throttle and hit the starter... 3 revolutions and she jumped to life. Ran real good... idled down well with no hunting. Everybody cheered!

The crabs were good but the flounder was better.

PS... I am not familiar with the old-style hydraulic couplings on this powertrol. These have a ring around the dummy plugs where mine has the spring clip. I need someone to enlighten me on how to remove the dummies and plug up a cylinder. Are the hose couplers the same as a spring-clip model?

Congrats on getting her running. Sounds like a "ran when parked" deal.

The plugs are not the same. you need these.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/John-Deere-...Heavy_Equipment_Parts&hash=item4d1a0b1850

These are the better deal as they have free shipping and the couplers to use any cylinder versus threading them on hoses, BUT they don't have the protective caps....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/John-Deere-...Heavy_Equipment_Parts&hash=item4d19ed2c78

You can either buy the correct power trol fittings or you can do
this and use pioneer fittings.

husker44a, that picture really interests me. Ive been trying to figure out a way to use regular hyd fittings on mine. If I do that to my 60 will the three point try to work at the same time as my cylinder?

Ryan: Using side plugs with couplers, on Power-Trol; on 60, Will give you one way pressure on two hose hyd. cyl. & return oil though (to keep Power-Trol supplied with oil) other.. Side plugs mainly used for two hose cyl.'s on 45 loader..45 Loader Not made for down pressure ,two way hyd. If your rockshaft piston doesn't leak down , & stays up it won't affect it.. To give you two way pressure though side plug; and separate rockshaft from cyl. You need one of these.. Selector valve...

What about using cylinders with one hose? We were talking about using the 60 to pull an 8' disk and maybe the v rake. Both of those just have one hose on the cylinder.

Cyl. with 1 hose will work fine, Just attach hose to bottom (Pressure) coupler on side of box, only possible problem is if cyl. is bigger than 2 or 2 1/2 " Power-Trol may run out of oil , with out return oil hose... Pic of hoses on 45 loader....