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D13

11-16-2002 04:42:24

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Picked up a B parts tractor for $100. It has the distillate fuel manifold with the heating chamber and the lovely inscribed plate. there is no hood or carb so all others would be a guess.

1. Is distillate equivalent to kerosene?
2. I have heard that you start on gas and switch over once the engine is warm. I saw in a previous post a small gas tank under the hood. Is this the way they all were? Or is there some other trick?
3. Is there a difference in the carb? or is the distillate and gasoline tune-up adequate so it will run on either (albeit not optimized)?

I'm probably going to part it out (the motor is STUCK, to the point the plugs were rusted into the head), but I've never seen one intact and running on distillate, and thought it might be neat to do.

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11-17-2002 21:07:48

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Re: Distallate B? in reply to D13, 11-16-2002 04:42:24

Two comments on distillate: In a 1930's John Deere ad for their distillate burning tractors they give two definations. The first states "In the distillate classification are included such fuels as furnace oil, fuel oil,tractor fuel, heating oil, stove tops, stove distillate, etc." Further down on the page they state that whether it be gasoline, kerosene, distillate, furnace oil, heating oil, or stove tops, John Deere Tractors will burn it efficiently and economically.

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Justin

11-16-2002 18:35:18

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Re: Distallate B? in reply to D13, 11-16-2002 04:42:24

Email me with prices to the following parts please if you want to part it out!

Battery box
fedners
grill
headlights
generator
3 point hitch
tool box

thank you,
Justin

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Butch (OH)

11-16-2002 16:36:12

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Re: Distallate B? in reply to D13, 11-16-2002 04:42:24

The B116 kerosene carburetor carries a different number than the gasoline version so something differs, I am not sure what. An manifold setup for low-grade fuels wil be too hot for top performance with gasoline and gasoline manifolds will not keep the low grade stuff vaporized. Kerosene is not distillate, and nothing else you can buy is either but you can make a close approximation by blending kerosene and gasoline 2-1. We have a tractor running on homemade distillate and it is kind of fun to mess with at the shows switching over and then back before shutting it down, lots of people around with questions when they see you switching fuel around. If you do get it going and attemp to burn kerosene, make sure the thing is hot before switching over or oil dilution wil be severe.

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P.S. - TractorMike

11-16-2002 10:39:29

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Re: Distallate B? in reply to D13, 11-16-2002 04:42:24

You can look on the left side of the where the engine meets the clutch housing and on the engine flange there should be an engine #. It should say CE-----K. TractorMike

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Dick L

11-16-2002 10:25:30

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Re: Distallate B? in reply to D13, 11-16-2002 04:42:24

The tractors set for the all fuel have a lower compression. I have bought them that were set up three different ways. One had two head gaskets with standard flat top cast pistons. Another had pistons with a small crator in the center of the piston. And yet another with a flat top piston that was shorter and did not come all the way to the top of the sleeve. All were 3 1/4" pistons.

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TractorMike

11-16-2002 09:24:37

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Re: Distallate B? in reply to D13, 11-16-2002 04:42:24

D13, It has been said on here that kerosene is equivalent to distillate, so you can run kerosene in this engine. All the dual fuel tractors had a gas starting tank somewhere under the hood. On the B and C I think that the tank was on the right side under the hood near the back of the engine. As far as I know you can run the tractor on gas or kerosene with out hurting anything, also I don't think the carb was diferent. I have a kerosene engine on my C and I mixed the gas and kerosene together and it runs fine. It smokes alot but the engine needs to be worked on. I think these engines are cool, you dont see many of them around. And the one's you do see, they burn gas in them. Hope this helps. TractorMike

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