Re: Aluminum pistons

Posted by the tractor vet on November 07, 2022 at 22:37:27 from (108.220.145.239):

In Reply to: Aluminum pistons posted by jd2cyl1943 on November 07, 2022 at 16:10:12:

By changing from the old Cast Iron to modern aluim. it fees up horse power and a Forged aluim. will transfer heat to the cylinder walls faster and cool faster also less weigh in reciprocating parts . Just like if you take a old Farmall cubby and change out the caast iron pistons to the ones used in the 184 add the new styel head and carb ya now have a SUPER cub and darn near doubling your horse power from the whopping 9-10 Hp to around 17-18 Hp and what it had trouble doing in first gear ya can now run second gear. Now on your B i am pretty sure she has been Bored and the new pistons used in the rebuild are aluim. because in my 35 years working on tractors NOT ONCe have i ever did a rebuild that the first thing asked is WHEN WE DO THIS DO YOU THINK YA CAN GET ME MORE POWER . These same words have been spoken by every farmer that owned a tractor and to satisfy them MFG.'s started offering BIGGER kits to increase CU. In. better governors carb kits with bigger jets , then ya get machine shops involved in the quest for more power so on gas engines lets shave the head , lets bore it out , lets put bigger valves in it , lest lighten up the rods and balance the rotating mass , oh wait lets change the cam grind . I am a second owner of a 1954 Farmall S/MTA and the old fellow who owned it wanted more power as when he bought it he was just getting started in farming and it pulled his three bottom plow just fine . BUT shortly after he bought it out comes the new 400 Farmall and it has MORE horse power and it can now pull four bottoms . Both tractors are 264 Cu . in. as this was the real start to the Horse power race along with more features better hyd.'s bigger heavier tractors more convinces like Power steering . So for the guys that already bought into the s/MTA only to see a fancier new model come out shortly after they wanted more , same went with the Deere's .Your OLD B did not have the getty up and go as the newer ones coming out and for guys with small farms that B was is big tractor just like the Farmall H . Yea i am and OLD Goat that has been around Farming since the early 50's and i have seen a lot of improvements . Yep Like Other guys i bleed red , BUT i have been known to work on Deeres , usually under the cover of darkness as not to tarnish my rep. I was around w2hen the one neighbor to my Uncle bought the first 4010 , i was there when the first 806 hit the Canfield fair in end of Aug 1963 and the man i was working for at the time BOUGHT IT and paid for it with a company check in full . And the next weekend i was with my uncle when he bought the second one to hit the area with a Check as it was unloaded off the truck on a Saturday morning the week after the fair. So like my S/M T A she is not 100% stock as it has almost every upgrade M & W offered and now has 60 Hp. I am well pleased with it and have owned it since June 27 1990 and to date the repairs to it have been a new Cam and lifters , timing gears . new brake disc. and a change to 12 volt . That tractor was one of the S/MTA's in the 1994 Red Power Video out of the 54 S/MTA'S at the show as being one of the most org. It comes down to WHO Care 's as long as it runs great and looks shinny . NO tthey did NOT come from the factory with a glossy shinny paint job with clear coated sanded down and buffed paint job , they came with a company color factory paint job in straight enamel . they had runs and light spots , BUT they were the company colors . If you had ever been to one of the BIG GREEN SHOWS and really looked deep into MOST of them tractors on display you would see that OH WAIT most of them DONT RUN and are ROLLED off trailers way before the crowed comes and when the Crowed leaves they are WINCHED back onto the trailers as they have NO OIL OR GREASE in them . That is so they NEVER LEAK and stay PRETTY . Ya see i got conned into going to one of them big John deere shows by my accountant as he is a huge J D fan and has several rare J D's . Yep i saw a lot I even hauled the vary first John Deere Model G GP J DS ever built into the grand opening of the J D show grounds in Grundy Center Iowa as a favor to one of his friends . I hauled one of his tractors out to one of his friends and loaded up one of his other tractors out there and we went and loaded up the GP's at another farm to haul it out to the show . when the show was over i had his two tractors on PLUS a M M he bought off another guy . So my advise to you if don't worry about ORG cast iron Pistons as NOBODY CARE'S make it look good and make it run good . With MOSt a restoration is a Sherman and Williams over haul.

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