Ultradog MN
Well-known Member
- Location
- Twin Cities
I have a Ford 4000 gasser - 3 cylinder model.
I like the tractor but don't use it much. Maybe 5 times a year for a total of 20? hours. The rest of the time it just loafs in the shed.
But every time I want to use it I first have to clean the points. Then lately with the bad gas we get, I usually have to dink with the carb too. Take it off, clean the green crud out of the float bowl, blow out the jets, etc.
I'm kinda tired of doing that.
I went up north this week to bring it home to do do some work on it.
It wouldn't start so I winched it on the trailer and hauled it home.
Got it home and just wanted to run it for 3 minutes to back it off the trailer and get it in the garage.
Do you think it would run?
Heck no.
I messed with it here for two hours.
Cleaned the points, took the carb off, etc, etc.
I finally just rolled it off the trailer and pushed it in the garage.
I dinked with it yesterday and got it running. It ran good.
No revelations on why it wouldn't start before. It just wanted me to show it some affection maybe.
I like a gasser. They're quieter and don't stink so bad like a diesel does.
But you know, I'm tired of having to dink with them all the time.
I have a couple of diesels too.
Those you can park them in the shed in September, come back 6 months later and put a battery in it and it will fire right up and go to work.
They just run.
I have enough spare parts for these 3 cyl Fords that I'm thinking about getting rid of this gas engine and put a diesel in the tractor.
Am kind of a Johney Come Lately to diesels. Never owned one till about 10 years ago.
It was since then that I began to realize that diesels just run.
They always run.
Maybe it's time to wise up here.
Spend my limited tractor time driving instead of dinking.
I suppose you guys who actually farm came to this realization a long time ago.
Wised up as it were.
But I'm just a hobbiest and it's finally sinking in.
It is nearly 4 AM here and I'm just musing so thanks for reading this post.
At least it's tractor related.
I like the tractor but don't use it much. Maybe 5 times a year for a total of 20? hours. The rest of the time it just loafs in the shed.
But every time I want to use it I first have to clean the points. Then lately with the bad gas we get, I usually have to dink with the carb too. Take it off, clean the green crud out of the float bowl, blow out the jets, etc.
I'm kinda tired of doing that.
I went up north this week to bring it home to do do some work on it.
It wouldn't start so I winched it on the trailer and hauled it home.
Got it home and just wanted to run it for 3 minutes to back it off the trailer and get it in the garage.
Do you think it would run?
Heck no.
I messed with it here for two hours.
Cleaned the points, took the carb off, etc, etc.
I finally just rolled it off the trailer and pushed it in the garage.
I dinked with it yesterday and got it running. It ran good.
No revelations on why it wouldn't start before. It just wanted me to show it some affection maybe.
I like a gasser. They're quieter and don't stink so bad like a diesel does.
But you know, I'm tired of having to dink with them all the time.
I have a couple of diesels too.
Those you can park them in the shed in September, come back 6 months later and put a battery in it and it will fire right up and go to work.
They just run.
I have enough spare parts for these 3 cyl Fords that I'm thinking about getting rid of this gas engine and put a diesel in the tractor.
Am kind of a Johney Come Lately to diesels. Never owned one till about 10 years ago.
It was since then that I began to realize that diesels just run.
They always run.
Maybe it's time to wise up here.
Spend my limited tractor time driving instead of dinking.
I suppose you guys who actually farm came to this realization a long time ago.
Wised up as it were.
But I'm just a hobbiest and it's finally sinking in.
It is nearly 4 AM here and I'm just musing so thanks for reading this post.
At least it's tractor related.