Sorry foot, let me put that back in the holster!

Royse

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Had a wonderful Thanksgiving day with the family.
Grandkids all went home about 6 p.m. or so.
I figured that was way too early to let the tryptophan
take me out for the day and I had a carb ready to test
so I brought the 9N into the shop and let it warm up.
I turned the gas off and let it run the current carb dry.
Then swapped carbs and turned the gas back on.
Started it up and it ran pretty darn good! For a minute.
Then it died. Hmmm. Try it again, same thing. Hmmm.
Ya'll know where this is going?
Yep, add gas to the tank. Runs just fine now. :oops:
Maybe I should have taken that nap! LOL
 
[b:3a65b3eb09][i:3a65b3eb09]ROFLMAO!!!!!
I've done that a couple of times, and it wasn't from eating too much turkey!!!!!

BTW:....If I remember right, you've done that a couple of times before this??????????

Gary :lol: :? [/i:3a65b3eb09][/b:3a65b3eb09]
 
I remember one winter my tractor wouldn't start for nothing. I called my dad and he came down to help me. We hooked it to the back of his chevy pickup. And I bet we pulled it for 7 or 8 min. It wouldn't even fire. Looked in the tank SHE was bone dry. My dad just laughed and said we got her going and that's what matters. My dad died in May of 2013 and I remember it like yesterday.
 
Royse, are you too close to that state institution in Ionia? Me, too.
I've used the reserve gallon in my 8N and forgot to set the sediment bowl/valve back to 2 turns when I filled the tank. The next time I ran out of gas there was no reserve and had to walk. Fortunately, in resent years, it was less than 800 feet to the barn.
 
I'm about 7 miles North of it physically, too close for me.
I could have used the reserve, but I just added gas.
Sure makes one wonder how that happens "just then" though!
 
I learned about 40 years ago that if the top half of the gas tank is full the bottom half never runs dry :twisted: :twisted: ...just saying!

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 23:51:27 11/28/14) I learned about 40 years ago that if the top half of the gas tank is full the bottom half never runs dry :twisted: :twisted: ...just saying!

Rick
Yep, I agree. I run all of my road vehicles that way.
Good idea to run your tractors that way too. Helps keep any
dirt that might be in the tank from getting into your carb.
This tank wasn't "dry", had about an inch of gas left in it.
Not enough to run unless opened to reserve though.
Just a blonde/senior moment. Eh, if you can't laugh at yourself....
 
(quoted from post at 21:09:26 11/28/14)
(quoted from post at 23:51:27 11/28/14) I learned about 40 years ago that if the top half of the gas tank is full the bottom half never runs dry :twisted: :twisted: ...just saying!

Rick
Yep, I agree. I run all of my road vehicles that way.
Good idea to run your tractors that way too. Helps keep any
dirt that might be in the tank from getting into your carb.
This tank wasn't "dry", had about an inch of gas left in it.
Not enough to run unless opened to reserve though.
Just a blonde/senior moment. Eh, if you can't laugh at yourself....

Don't feel bad, at 59 I learned about 2 weeks ago that a grease gun primes much easier if one removes BOTH caps on the tube!

Just don't ask how I learned that.

Rick
 
Ok, folks, all this talk about gas and tanks and reserve brings up a question. I've just been filling my 8N tank. Am I also filling the reserve? When I use the reserve gas, do I need to do anything special to replace the gas?

I got the impression from other posts that I could have gas in the tank, but the reserve COULD be empty, A possibility?

I'm within days of being 72, and I am STILL learning new stuff from you expert gurus!
 
There's no separate reserve tank to refill. The reserve is simply the fuel at the bottom of the fuel tank, which is accessed when you turn the knob to "reserve", opening up a passage lower down on the part of that sticks up into the tank.
 
Thanks! That answered one of my nagging questions. Good to know the tank holds the water in the gas below the regular pickup tube! lol
 
Open the fuel valve two full turns for normal operation.
Open it all the way (backseat) for reserve.
Both are in the main tank, reserve opening is just lower.
 
Rick wrote:
"I learned about 40 years ago that if the top half of the gas tank is full the bottom half never runs dry."

Very shrewd of you indeed! :D

I'm kind of glad I don't have a gas gage, cause where I have one and the needle points halfway, I never know if the tank is half full or half empty.
 
"I never know if the tank is half full or half empty."

Neither! Tank is just too big! :idea:
 
Half empty or full, cost the same to fill it!

Last winter I went out with the 1206 Farmall to blow my snow, the MIL's a BIL's, wife's Uncle and a friends. Stopped in town to fill up the tractor and had just finished paying when the MIL walks in and tells me I should have let her pay for the fuel. I told her she didn't want to know. I knew she didn't have the money for that. So she ask the girl running the checkout how much I had paid. She hasn't ask how much fuel I've been burning to keep her drive clean sense!

Rick
 
But it only costs half as much (or less) than when empty!
If empty means a carb cleaning, it can cost even more.
 
I pulled my 1944 2N out of the barn today and backked it into the main barn door to put the chains on it to get ready for winter. As I backed it in it died...Hmmm oh well it's cold. I went ahead, jacked up the rear end and put the chains on. Climbed aboard to go put the blade on and it cranked but wouldn't fire...Hmmm. I was just getting ready to check the spark when I thought I'd give it a squirt of stating fluid in the air intake. It fired and ran and died...hmmm checked the tank and it was bone dry. (Embarrassed) I filled it up and it ran like a champ. Got the blade on...now let it snow :)

Barry N Indiana
1944 2N
 

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