Author Topic: The rabbit runs! (Read 13839 times)

RabbitJockey · « **Reply #15 on:** April 03, 2006, 06:49:34 pm »

my dad has an obsession with the creme and yellow tractors.

moosiah · « **Reply #16 on:** April 03, 2006, 07:46:19 pm »

my JD is a 'AW all fuel' S# says it's a '43.

just like the one that I drove when I was 10 yrs old...... I was soo little that I couldn't start it.... dad would spin the flywheel , close the cyl petcoks, I climbed up to the seat and stuffed it into 4 th and pulled the throttle ALL the way back and took off across the field w the sickel cutter chopping hay as fast as it could go........

no problem starting now .....I'm 6'5" and bearly fit 'tween the wheels :lol: I would love to have a 820 or 70WD ( for those not aflicted w this sickness, a 820 is a 75hp 2 cyl diesel w a 10" cyl bore!! that means BANG---------BANG------------BANG------------BANG!!!!!!!! ) :twisted:

LeeG · « **Reply #17 on:** April 03, 2006, 09:59:12 pm »

I think that an interest in early iron and 'unusual' (at least over here in NA) transport like a diesel car must go hand in hand. I'd love to have a vintage tractor, but have to content myself with a small collection of stationary and marine engines. Nothing like an engine where you can see all the parts moving and it runs slow enough to actually hear each stroke!

stewardc · « **Reply #18 on:** April 04, 2006, 03:32:45 am »

I had a 1949 John Deere Model M up until a few years ago. New tractors may be nicer, but I love that 2-cylinder shuffle.

hillfolk'r · « **Reply #19 on:** April 04, 2006, 08:52:32 pm »

Quote from: "stewardc"

I had a 1949 John Deere Model M up until a few years ago. New tractors may be nicer, but I love that 2-cylinder shuffle.

,get a few of those engines in workonce ina while for rebuild,,,,,,,,,,nice+simple,,,,im tellin ya,thats when you could fix something without plugging in a scan tool etc,jus use some chewing gum :shock: ,,i wonder if anyone under the age of 30 has ever seen or adjusted a set of points,,except in a museum,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
:wink: old stuff rocks

hillfolk'r · « **Reply #20 on:** April 04, 2006, 08:59:20 pm »

can you honestly look at anything new today,,and imagine something new being found in a barn in 50-60 years,, (wow martha,thats an 03 focus,,call the smithsonian,its numbers matching),,,,throw in a battery+ gas+drive it?? all the little electrons in the black boxes wouldnt know what to do,,,,,,,, :roll:

LeeG · « **Reply #21 on:** April 05, 2006, 12:42:52 pm »

yah, I pulled a Fairbanks Morse Model Z out of an abandoned oyster cannery from where it had been sitting above tidal water for 35 years. Pounded the piston out, quick hone to get the rust, slapped a big speaker magnet on the magneto to improve a weak spark, few flips of the flywheel and off she went!

Old lady that owned the property (and gave me permission to take what I wanted) said that engine was old when they got it in the '40s, they used it up until the early '70s to run conveyors and pumps, then the whole outfit was shut down due to pollution contaminating the oyster beds. FM-Z was designed in like the 1920s and sold for something like 30 yrs

Some of my younger friends are afraid of carburators! imagine that!!

I gotta say that one the things I like about my TD is the lack of electricory under the hood. I run computer networks for a living, so I'm not a total caveman where technology is concerned. Even the dealers seem to often resort to the 'swapping parts until its fixed' type of diagnosis these days.

hillfolk'r · « **Reply #22 on:** April 06, 2006, 09:13:16 pm »

yea,,,ido electronic/electrical troubleshooting at work all day,so idont wanna deal with it at home,,im basically the only guy there doin it,,or can do it,,they still wanna play with jumper wires and test lights,,, some lilelectrical thing gets wacky,,im the goto guy,,trucks,genetators,allkinds of equipment,,our boss doesnt turn down anything,nomatter how screwed up it is,,,,,right now im ticked at cummins,,we are a b+c dealer,,and supposidly our insite update( cummins,laptop diagnostic program) we just got,is corrupting whatever i plug into,and ihave to recalibrate the ecm,,,heh,its turning on fan controls at startup,and shutting off at 205,for example,,bassackwards,thats not the only issue with them,,but i did like cummins,,but if you want one that will last get an old school mechanical, thos are for me,the new b is freakin nuts,,if i was to have a truckengine new,,it would be a 60 series,,theyare fairly simple for new stuff,i like them,,,ooh i was at the factory(dd) in99 for trainingwhen theywere shutting down the 2 stroke line into just 1 line,,it was sad :cry: ,and ithink ireally did get a little choked up walking thru there ,,i love dat 2 stroke cackle,,wish i could fit a lil 4 53 inmy bunny,,thad be cool

RabbitJockey · « **Reply #23 on:** April 07, 2006, 10:34:59 am »

Quote from: "hillfolk'r"

can you honestly look at anything new today,,and imagine something new being found in a barn in 50-60 years,, (wow martha,thats an 03 focus,,call the smithsonian,its numbers matching),,,,throw in a battery+ gas+drive it?? all the little electrons in the black boxes wouldnt know what to do,,,,,,,, :roll:

who would save a focus, i think anyone that saw it would run thinking one of the cows mutated.

hillfolk'r · « **Reply #24 on:** April 07, 2006, 10:08:27 pm »

i just said focus,,insert any ugly new hateful car you can think of,,like an azteck,whatever piece of crap,freakin scionbox,,and what the heck is an avalanche??useless junk,,isaw one of those honda ridgeline crap things the other day,then i noticed,,,i probably can almost fit as much stuff in my rabbit with the seat out,,,,what a joke,,,i freakin laugh at all the hybrids i pass on the way towork, dunno if an echo is hybrid,ugly tinbox too cheaplookin bucket,geeky tooor what geeky used to mean,,ok dorky,i always give em a flatfoot puff,cause ill run 100 in the 1/4,and get low 50s for mileage on the hiway :twisted: :twisted: :oops: im sorry i tried to keep my language sorta tame :oops: ,,,,man did this subject get off track,,what was the orig.question,and was it answered??? :idea:

stewardc · « **Reply #25 on:** April 08, 2006, 04:55:15 am »

Quote from: "hillfolk'r"

ijust said focus,,insert any ugly new hateful car you can think of,,like an azteck,whatever piece of crap,freakin scionbox,,and what the heckis an avalanche??useless junk,,isaw one of those honda ridgeline crap things the other day,then i noticed,,,i probably can almost fit as much stuff in my rabbit with the seat out,,,,what a joke,,,i freakin laugh at all the hybrids i pass on the way towork, dunno if an echois hybrid,ugly tinbox too cheaplookin bucket,geeky tooor what geeky used to mean,,ok dorky,i always give em a flatfoot puff,cause ill run 100 in the 1/4,and get low 50s for mileage on the hiway :twisted: :twisted: :oops: im sorry i tried to keep my language sorta tame :oops: ,,,,man did this subject get off track,,what was the orig.question,and was it answered??? :idea:

:shock: :shock: WOW, my first encounter with "Redneckus Extremus" :shock: