Little Man's First Tractor

[Highland512]

Last summer my son had a tractor gifted to him by an older fella who was impressed with his love of tractors. Its a 1950 Farmall Super A with a mounted woods belly mower. Part of the agreement of the gift was my son had to be involved in all the work to be done, which he agreed to.
It hadn't ran in 10 years or so but was all there. After about 4 hours of cleaning the carb, cleaning and adjusting points, and rigging up a gas tank we had it running....poorly. The gas tank was a victim of ethanol gas, one of the best methods of cleaning tanks I have found is a muriatic acid burn followed by washing and agitation. After washing and shaking out the rust we coated the tank in Red Kote, great product for stopping the tank rusting problems we suffer through with e10.

Now that the chemical nasty work is done it was time for little man to get to work. We started with a compression test, he found that compression was way down. Should be 100-120 psi, we found 40-50 psi, at this point I told him it was time to learn about the insides of a motor. We got the motor removed and disassembled, all while learning how a motor works. The motor was very sludgy, he cleaned the sludge out of the pan and I pressure washed the block. Some odd things we found, at some point I think it had an inframe rebuild. The sleeves still show cross hatching and the rod bearings have a 11/99 date, but the main bearings are original IH bearings from 9/49.....               

[goodfellow]

What a great project, and what a great gesture by that gentleman. Get 'em going while their young, and they'll enjoy a hobby for life.

[Highland512]

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[skfarmer]

little man looks just like ya! 

[Highland512]

little man looks just like ya! 

He is a little mini me!