Welp, that was fun for a while....

OK, so i wasted all of today working on that stupid B.

I should have known better.

I got the gas tank on, cleaned up the plugs, checked everything over, got the manifold and muffler on, hooked up the throttle, and tried it out.

Absolutially nothing.

The damn throttle wouldnt move.

So, i took the carb off the manifold and everything looked fine.

After a while, i figured out that the plate in the brand new carb was too big for the intake hole on the bottom of the manifold, and wouldnt budge.

This is very interesting, because it worked fine with that same manifold this spring.

I honestially dont know how this is even possible.

It just doesnt make sence....




But its not a suprise... Anythings possible with me...

So i took the plate off and ground it down on the bench grinder, and got it to move.

Obviously, alot more air gets through now, so i guess ill have to increase the fuel mixture too...

I manged to loose the keys to the kubota too. I know exactially where i left them, because i remember going to town after leaving them there, and i wasnt even in that area until hours after i got home.

Ive never accually "Lost" keys before, just misplaced them.

But these just arent here.

So i started cranking it.

All i can get is a puff through the carb.

Its irritating as hell. Its in time, its got fuel and spark, but its just not doing anything.

I should have known. I could have called this perfactially.... I remember thinking this morning.. "Gee, I hope i dont freeze out here all day for nothing" Just like i did.


I am so damn sick of working on this worthless tractor. I have no clue what the hell is wrong with it this time, and i really dont care.

Tomorrow, im going to start working on other things.

Its just not worth getting mad over. In fact, the only time i get mad enough to raise my voice now is when im working on this.


My plan is to drag it back into the barn so i can have my shop back for the first time in two years and just work on other things.

I leave for cleveland tomorrow, and unless its some painfully obvious detail that i managed to overlook, im just not going to work on this damn thing.

I want my thousands of dollars, hundreds of hours, and years of my life back.

Rant over.

I would guess that every reader has had such a day. I recall having more than one, and not just in my uninformed youth but even these days now that I"m older and a genius. I recall spending an entire day trying to get a carb on a little farmall to stop leaking. The following day I came to the realization that the gasket between the carb halves was wrong and the bowl could not vent. I recall spending an entire day trying to get a distributor to run a Farmall A and finally figuring out that I had a distributor off a W-9, it turns the other way!! Oh, I feel for you.

Lol thanks

Haha... It happens... Alot...

But it still sucks...


UPDATE: We found the kubota key...

It was, of all places, on the bathroom sink.

LOL Dont even ask...

I diddnt (think I) had it anytime i was in the house... But i guess i did.. And subcosicially took it out of my pocket and left it there sometime when i wasnt in the dang room... Haha...

Oh well... Atleast we have it now :-D

See Lance, even a bad day can show some good !!

Hello Lanse:

I plead guilty to being "off board" for a while.

Just glad to see you are still here.

I don't know how to word this so it doesn't come out sounding wrong, but you are getting lessons on how life can be.

We all need to take the good with the bad, hopefully we have more good days than bad ones. HANG IN THERE! Keep posting, even if/ maybe especially if/ things don't go right.

Keep posting! DOUG

looks like you need to leave the tractor alone and spend a little more time with your nose in your english spelling book

Lanse- If I understand correctly, you ground down the throttle plate? If so, it will be real hard to start, and if it does start, RPM will go WAY up. You're gonna have to get another throttle plate, and grind out the manifold so the plate will clear it when open. Good luck, and don't give up- you'll get it fixed.

Lanse, as you get older, you will look back and laugh at these minor problems.. Every day is a learning experience..

Oh yeah ? Where's your punctuation marks ???

I always had bad grades in english, and it hasen't slowded me down a bit in my 67 years above the sod. Give the kid some slack. Stan

Which plate did you say you ground ? If it was the throttle plate ,you just ruined your carburetor . The throttle plate is MACHINED to fit the throat of the carb . If you mess with it you will never get it to idle right. adding more fuel or bigger jets won't help . Show us a pic of what you actually did? Maybe we can help you get it right .

Yup.. Thats the one...

I dont think it can be that bad because when i rebuilt my last carb, it came with a new one, so they cant be that hard to find....

And besides, it was somewhat bent to begin with, i think thats how it ran before....

When you gotta go...you gotta go. If it's bad enough your in a race for your life, it would be easy to forget about a darn key. LoL You'd like to have the time and money back you put into your B. Get in line. I would hazzard a guess that 100% of the people on here would like to have their time, and especially money, back on projects that seemed hopeless. In your case, I have to take it with a grain of salt. If the B is/was so irritating , why do you keep buying other wrecked trucks and equipment to try and fix? It can and probably will frustrate you just as much or more than the B. I think you've fallen back to your old habits of expecting everything to go smoothly and be done in record time. You know the B runs, it needs some tinkering with the carb. Doesn't sound like that big of a deal to me. Am I missing something? Dave

Wow! Maybe someone that didn"t use one cap or a single bit of punctuation, should take a little time with that same book and look in the sentence structure chapter.

Whot a winder likker!

Ron.

P.S. Don"t be such a coward and sign your posts.

"subcosicially"? Lance if you keep coming up with these new words you will a be perfect candidate for the Mayor of Detroit.

Lanse, Its always good to step back and swear...you know let a few F bombs fly and give it all some thought,,Is there a hot muffler around there or a wood stove you can spit on and watch it sizzle ? good to hear from you!

Glad your back on here Lanse. I miss these posts. Your right it ain't worth getting mad about but boy I know how you feel. Hang in there and don't give up. You'll get it going eventually.

It's good to hear from you Lanse. The other guys are right, go outside and take a break, kick a tree and cuss a little, then when you go back to the tractor. You do better work when your mind isn't all fuddled up.

The throttle plate could have been put in the carb upside down. A lot of times the screw holes in the plate are not in the center of the plate. The fat side of the plate should be down. If the fat side is up it could possibly hit the manifold. Most of us have made this mistake though we don't want to admit it. Good luck. Jim

give it up and I'll come get it off your hands , I hate to see a tractor kill someone and therefore I'll be saving your life. now that's something to be proud of

As someone that works as a mechanic for a living I can tell you for a fact if you are going to work on the old stuff get used to the problems...Granted the old stuff can be a PITA but so can the new stuff. I cuss about things going wrong all, not being able to find parts, etc, etc, etc, all the time but in the end I just remember something some said to me years ago, 'Remember the more problems you run into the more you have to think to overcome them, and ultimately the more you learn..' So when you get to feeling down just remember mechanic work is all just one big learning experience, so cuss a little, fuss a little, but in the end don't forget to just have fun and enjoy learning something new....

I liked the "perfactically". The kid's a Dizzy Dean reincarnation.

Gordo

Hey, Good to see a post from you!! Hope your home life has gotten Better!

Last night my wife backed her car (my car) into my daughter's car (my car). I could have come unglued, but at 55 I just buffed most of the scratches out of my wifes car and am going to see if I can pull dent out of daughters car and relieve stress off fender to open the door. We do all have those days Lanse but you do learn to deal with it.

english is important yes, being a positive mentor is even more important.

Lanse , it has been said "learn from the mistakes of others as you won't live long enough to make them all yourself" . At your age it doesn't matter what you tear into there is always someone who has been there and done that. I have learned that when something is just "unexplainable" then that is the time to bury the pride and ASK , not after you have tried the "home remedies" or the "primitive Pete" methods. Remember , a self taught student will only make it half way in his lifetime. The next 40% comes from reading , asking , watching , and doing. The last 10% comes from that in-born passion to need to take everything just a little bit past it's production line limit and do some outside the box experimentation. I guess you could call it the competetive spirit. Without it you will work in a factory for "the man". With it you will own the factory. The days of punching a clock to make a good living are gone. If you let this tractor "beat" you then you might as well find a factory where you get paid the same no matter what. Somebody in a factory some 60 yrs ago built that tractor. You have got to prove that here in 2009 , Lanse is at least as smart as that guy was. Defeat by a tractor just ISN'T an option! You have to win this one cause it doesn't get any easier in life. Thanks for listening to my rant. Randy.