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Restore with Kerosene???

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Douglas Nebeker

08-27-2002 18:56:55




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For those of you who own tractors that began their lives as Kerosene burners, how many still burn it? Should I restore this F-12 with or without the Kerosene?

What is/are the advantages of both? Gas/Kerosene or just Gas?

What if anything needs to be modified to run straight gas all of the time?




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Gene

08-28-2002 07:27:05




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 Re: Restore with Kerosene??? in reply to Douglas Nebeker, 08-27-2002 18:56:55  
Lots of posts in the archives about distilate burning. Distilate isn't made anymore but could be closely matched if needed. kerosene is different. G.



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joe

08-28-2002 04:51:30




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 Re: Restore with Kerosene??? in reply to Douglas Nebeker, 08-27-2002 18:56:55  
If you are going to use it for show, then sure, restore it as kerosene. But as a work tractor, kerosene developes far less horsepower, but used to be a lot cheaper than gas, is why it was run. But now it is more expensive, so there is no point in it (kind of like how LP tractors used to be more popular, but you can't afford to run the things anymore). And kerosene takes a while to get going, you have to warm the engine up real good with gas first before the kerosene will burn. So whatever you feel like. I guess this is probably a show tractor, because an F-12 is pretty small and slow.

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CNKS

08-27-2002 19:21:13




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 Re: Restore with Kerosene??? in reply to Douglas Nebeker, 08-27-2002 18:56:55  
Would be a novelty to be able to run it on kerosene. If you are a purist, it should be restored as it came from the factory. I think kerosene is now more expensive than gas, when your tractor was built it was cheaper. No advantage to kerosene, gas burns cleaner. There are those who claim that kerosene produces more power, I don't know, I think probably less HP. I don't think it needs anything to run on gas, probably ran that way before you got it. I have a 41 H with a kerosene manifold and carb. If I'm wrong about any of this, I'm sure I'll be corrected.

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