Re: radiator shutters???What do you think?

Posted by Bob Kerr on August 28, 2001 at 22:06:05 from (152.163.205.48):

In Reply to: radiator shutters???What do you think? posted by Bill Smith on August 28, 2001 at 21:34:08:

If gas prices keep going up through the roof, I wouldn't rule out burning kero in my tractors! I have a 10-20 and an F-12 and both have kero manifolds in good shape. As far as shutters go I do know that every late 30s kero tractor I have seen with shutters also had a water temp gauge.If your F-20 has a temp gauge I bet it also had shutters. The older Internationals had an oil cloth like curtain that was held on the bottom part of the rad with clips. There was another set of clips that would attach in the small holes that run up the sides of the radiator.You just had to feel how much heat was going back into the block on the bottom water elbow. To run kero and not run too cold the Bottom elbow should be just a bit more than luke warm. I just had another thought. I think the shutters were bolted to the radiator sides. If yours had shutters you might find the holes where they had been threaded. I don't think they wasted time threading holes there unless they needed them. The curtains I was talking about are VERY hard to find! I do have a few pics of an original Farmall Regular that still has the curtain on it.If you think you might have had a curtain let me know and I will send you the pics so possibly you can make one. Last year when I ran my 10-20 on kero I just threw a rag over the bottom of the radiator and that kept the heat up a bit.A cool water jacket will help condense the kero in the cylinders and it will thin the oil so you will have to drain the oil to the middle check cock in the morning before you run it. of course fill the pan back up to the top check cock with fresh oil.

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• Re: Re: radiator shutters???What do you think? Bill Smith 16:33:43 08/29/01 (1)
  • Re: Re: Re: radiator shutters???What do you think? Dick (IL) 09:36:59 08/31/01 (0)

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