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I bought someone else's restoration project. I think the carburetor and the manifold stumped him. The back rims had already been fixed. I was fortunate enough to buy 2 of those closed tread tires for $10 at an auction. And though rough, they have no breaks in them and fit the rims perfectly. If you need a carb kit, its the came as the earliest CC or DC Case. Actually mine is running a CC or DC carb with the original venturi and jets in it, because my original carb had been broken at the air horn and welded which froze the idle screw in place. I hope you have a working original magneto. The magnet in my original died. I'm running a replacement base-mount Fairbanks-Morse FMJ. If you need a replacement magneto it needs 35 degrees of advance and that is not in any MM literature that I have seen. Someone on here that has magneto literature provided that information. The two biggest problems with fixing my JT to run was getting the manifold fixed and timing the magneto. The JE engine is kinda lazy at idle. Not much power. But it does O.K. at fast idle, although not as good as the RE engine that replaced it in the ZT tractors. It may run even better on kerosene than it does on gasoline, but the guy who fixed my manifold left the baffle out, so I can't use kerosene in mine.
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