Ah yep . Over the years you can not believe how many service calls i have been on for tractors not running right , hard to start or not run at all due to bad gas . In my area we have a ton of old gas powered tractors that are still in use each and every day on small farms by today's standards . Went out on one call a guy had and 800 sires Ford that we had done his usual twice a year tune up on and a week later the tractor would not start after he filled the tank with gas just delivered by his fuel supplier , this was in the fall when everybody was filling there home heating oil tanks . He had 250 gallon of gas delivered and now the tractor would not start after he filled it's tank . I pulled the new plugs and they were wet and black, so i installed new plugs and the tractor started a little slow but it did start . While we were talking i noticed that she was smoking black like a diesel with a light load on it . I checked the carb adjustment and it made not changes to speak of . We shut it down and tried to restart on a warm engine and NOPE it ain't happing the plugs were soaked again. I did not have another set of plugs on the truck so i cleaned the first set with either and a propane torch and got the tractor back up and running and on the trailer to take back to the shop. I was not playing with it out in his shed in twenty degree weather. He needed a tractor to haul manure and grind fed with so i let him have my one 706 gasser to use while i figured out what was wrong with his ford . My 706 had a little over a 1/4 tank of gas in it when i hauled it back down to him that evening and was running fine . The next day i got into his tractor and went thru the carb and a new set of plugs i found nothing wrong with the carb and still had a problem with starting i thought that maybe the coil might be a bit weak so i put a new coil on it and no help there . Then he shows up at the shop to let me know now my 706 will not start , What that tractor sets outside and it will start at -30 degrees every time . So back out in the cold and down to his place three miles from the shop and nope the 706 will not start , pulled the plugs out of it and they are wet and black. I saw and old coffee can setting there and grabed it and out to his fuel tank and i put about a 1/4 of a can of gas in it and said do you have a match ???? He went to the hose and brought out a hand full of kitchen matches . Well IF the gas was good then one match would have caused a small flash fire explosion , NAh that did not happen as the lit match fell into the socalled gas and went out . Took and old rag and dipped it into the socalled gas and lit the rag after holding the match to it for a couple seconds it lit and burned like diesel but it had the smell of gas . So we tried to lite the can and yes it did lite but it burned like a smudge pot. black smoke just billowing . The fuel supplier did not clean out the compartment and the hose reel . And this guy was not the only one the supplier did this to that fall as i had six other people call with the same problem . And there other problems with todays gas in old gas tractors. I myself like gas tractors but we are now having tomany problems related to gas while trying to work them and i have just about given up on dealing with it.
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