yeah ,, noticed that too,WIlson also glad to see you are VERY WELL , LOL,,my heart goes out to farmall beginner,.. if it were mine I would drive it home for a shake down cruise on a early sunday morning , but I got a couple guys that would come along for the adventure and be good help ,,. do not attempt alone !,YOU NEED A ESCORT EVEN IF YOU TRAILER IT ESPECIALLY .. if your helper is like my 1st wife? that is all you need ,,.if your only helper is like my current wife ,,FORGET IT and move back to manhatten with Lisa Douglas on Green Acres !,.. LOl ,,,even hauling l would make sure I had a good team for escort ..but I don't know the hills curves and cliffs on the roads you mite be dealing with ,,.. but I would bet in most of Kansas it would be fairly smooth going , don't know about Kansas as far as liability insurance but ....indiana farm bureau standard farm policy covered my combine mishap with a electric utility pole,,. Chek archives on combine forum .. "GOOFED or STUPID and lived to tell about it" ..about 4 yrs ago , bottom line TO THAT STORY .NEVER SHIFT ON A HILL, SELECT THE BEST SLOWEST GEAR TO HOLD THE MACHINE BEFORE YOU ENCOUNTER THE SLOPE .. anyway ,I assume that the motor runs decent ,. or has run in recent years and has good life and power to give?? ,, does it need a lift pump to get gas to the engine ?
?,,.if so I would pikup an electric fuel pump to have handy incase the old one cruds up with rust ,let the old pump workthru that crud if it does ok ,no need to contaminate the new pump until the old pump fails,...put 20 gallon of hi test gas in her, a gallon of atf fluid, and a quart of lucas fuel stabilizer , put lucas oil stabilizer in the motor if you don't like the oil pressure ,,lucas will hold that motor together to get her home ,if you have strong oil pressure , and the oil looks clean and decent and you trust the p-owner took nice care ,. you mite add a qt of atf to the engine oil to clean all the uglys out during shakedown trip, mite be a good idea to change the filter after 1st warmup ,. upon reaching home drain and change all oils including filters ,,you will be surprised what the filter will weigh after the trip , so use a quality filter like WIX /// final drives and tranny,,lucas makes a good hub sealer and tranny slip fixer to ease shifting . change these out unless the oil looks like new after the trip .and obviously top off ALL FLUIDS,.if you sont have enuf 90 wt..a couple qts of atf or 30 wt will do you fine for the run .//. It All depends on the health of the engine and drive line and how long it was dormant??,,.watch the traction belts ,,don't overtiten ..but don't run loose and make them squal on the hi side of hi gear ..make sure you can drop and raise the hydraulics with ease ,.I have a bad hill between my farms that I drop the massey 12ft head on the pavement for braking stability going down, and up in low gear ,.this is a very steep grade that I doubt you have nuthin to match it with in kansas ,,. but I don't know what you know about Kansas and your route ,,. at any rate I would much rather drive a combine on a dangerous road than trailer it ,. if you are trailering on gravel with curves and hills You are flirting with Disaster ,.I hauled 2 mf 300 backwards with the tailend chained to a trailer,, and the drive wheels on the pavement in neutral .. behind my 95 cummins 5 speed pikup ,. the 1st one did real good because there were no bad hills to go thru ,.. a year later I got wind of a 2nd mf 300 , this one had a engine stuck ,. , my son and his future wife and I climbed a steep hill to hook on the same way we did the 1st 300 ,.I had both heads o n a flat jd equipment trailer behind my 86 , 318 -4speed Dodge and made the hill fine because the weight was on the pikup better../ ,.I told Michael to put it in 1st and keep the cummins there going down the hill ,. this hill is equally as steep as the hill described between my farms ,.AND as luck would have it , the road curved and had a damp shaded area slik with fallen leaves, the cummins broke traction and started slippin bad, Michael shifted into 2nd and let her roll,. and I am glad he had the good sense to shift up , Wise Skills for a 17 yr old kid that learned horse sense the hard way on the farm .... I may not have THEM and my fine grandsons today if they had gone over the side!!!,. the rest of the trip home was uneventful,.. but Alisha needed to stop and p at my sisters place ,. LOL //if I had to do it over I would have took the guy up that I bought it from with the idea of chaining the rear to the front , to ease over the hill with his 1850 oliver gasser ,. but the Ollie did not have good brakes . and I don't trust my life to dope smokers.. anyway I wrote you a book ,./ lol,. but I think I gave you enuf to make a qualified decision ,,.and I wish you luck ,. one more thought you are rite about the modern machines being common on the road there are wider than your fully dressed j deer machine,,. I think you have little to worry about..
