(quoted from post at 20:17:28 09/06/11) I see you boys are picking on pankey again, or maybe he's dong a good job picking on himself. He behaved for a while though after I told him that his @$$ kicking would contiunue untill his IQ improved. I don't even ague with pank, but I do tell him what he can't figure out, or straighten out the lies he will make up about me. Such as the nitrous deal. There's no nitrous being used in that old video. I had ran some NOS but the bottle was bolted to the outside of the frame up over the front tire, pretty easy to see a 10 lb bright blue bottle now isn't it. There are a few pulls where no one cares so why not try some NOS and see how it acts so I'd give it a small shot. But where does one start on a tractor engine built in 1936? So I made a little setup with some loaner parts from a friend and some nozzles I ordered for it. Start small and work up....... all I'll say is nitrous is funny stuff..... it's laughing gas.
You boys rember how I had to tell someone just how I cut the cylinder head apart and made my new porting...... than he tries to argue and whine that it can't be done or that I'm a liar. So I just gave detailed description of the work and post up some pictures. I suppose when he can afford it he'll send the $200 up that dixie normus is refering to.
The engine is nothing to special, I just made a bunch of parts and used up what was laying around. I built it when I was 20 yrs old, that's an old video. I've had a few engines over the years. I used to run the tractor quite a bit when I was younger but then it sat for years. Life just got to busy to do much tractor pulling. Last year I started working on it again and changed some things, the old club that I pulled with has broken apart and we don't have much for rules anymore. The old rules were a single barrel updraft carb and that's what I ran. Now though I run a downdraft and have changed the cylinder head around a bunch. I want to make another head for the tractor, the old one I did 10 years agoe got some improveing, but it's still a mis match of things and I know I can do a lot better starting with a fresh casting............ but I may as well put the tractor togather and pull it while working on some new parts in the mean time. It's more fun to pull than to sit on the computer and cry to everyone or make excuses like some.
So I've been working on a new engine with a 5 main counterweighted crankshaft in it, I'm useing a crankshaft from a common diesel engine application that has the same main berring spaceing as the Allis block. The crank fits in fine and I only need to machine a rear main seal holder and a little machine work on the snout for the timeing gear. I've been working on a new cylinder head from scratch. I had a new head cast at the foundry and it's turning into quite a project but it's sure fun and I get to learn a lot allong the way. I should put some pictures up of this project sometime. I don't have much time anymore, super busy with work but when things slow down in the winter I'll have some more time to be on the computer. I don't know how far I'll get on the new engine of if I'll ever finish it. There just isn't much for the smaller tractors left to pull against and I never get time to get away and go pull anyways.
Here's a picture of the current setup. I've had some real good runs this year and one terrable day where we couldn't even get off the line. Had a few runs where it missed terrable and a few where the little bugger lit hard and made some smiles. But it was a good season, we won some hooks and managed a few 2nd place finishes when pulling against large Farmalls, McCormics and Molines.
yes LW, there's a heck of a difference in sleds. I hooked to one this summer that I couldn't move off the line, and I hooked to one where I was able to run in a 35 to 1 gear ratio and spun the tires out up around 3500 RPM, that's 100 RPM on the tires. With the new setup and a different cam the engine has a lot more fight in the mid range, but it's a lot more tempermental to have things right and get it off the line. Miss one little thing on the tuning and it seams like it makes half the power.
yorkie, I'm in Wisconsin, the engine is an Allis engine, 4 cyl 201 that started life in a WD. if you'd like to ask any questions feel free to call sometime, seven one five, seven nine zero, 1869. I would have liked to have been able to use a Gleaner E engine or a D17 but at the time it wasn't quite "legal" and I'd get a fair bit of static from some other pullers so I just stuck with the older block and made parts to strengthen it up. Here's a picture of the bottom end. I had put up some pictures in the past and given some descriptions. You can search around for them and all you'll find is someone getting jelous and pissing and whineing to everyone and clutter up the thread. I like the legitimate questions, and will answer them, but I'm not wasteing time with the idiots.
I made an extra long post, that way one can waste more bandwidth when quoteing it......take care fella's. Got a busy life to live and lots to do.