Not yet, but my bushhog is on its last legs, when it fails entirely I'll get a 3pt conversion kit and a 3pt bushhog. It'd be some nice to be able to raise the bushhog without having to get off the tractor... IH didn't go to the 3pt until the 60's I believe... -Curt Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:18:55 -0700 From: Zeitgeist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Sudden loss of oil pressure To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hey, does your tractor have a 3 point hitch? IIRC, Farmall was a bit late to climb on board with Harry Ferguson's universal hitch set up. [former owner of a '44 Ford 2N w/3 point hitch and a sludgy oil sump] On 6/28/06, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Clogged pickup screens are pretty common on old tractors that had been run > for years with non-detergent oil, any dirt or crud that got into the engine > settled into the oil pan. > Common practice when switching to detergent oil is to drop the pan and > scrape the crud out. Guess what I need to do on my tractor this fall? > > -Curt > '52 Farmall Super M > > > Casey Olympia, WA Biodiesel: "I drive in a persistent vegetative state" '87 300TD intercooler #22 (216k) '84 300D (214k) Gashuffer: '89 Vanagon Wolfsburg Edition (187K) http://users.zhonka.net/zeitgeist/Misc/IMG_0171.JPG --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 01 14:35:28 2006 Received: from web32807.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.206.37]) by server8.arterytc8.net with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FwgZE-00030r-FX for mercedes@okiebenz.com; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:35:28 +0000 Received: (qmail 4786 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Jul 2006 14:35:20 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [71.233.183.51] by web32807.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:35:20 PDT Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 07:35:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.7.cp2 Subject: Re: [MBZ] I give up on Mobil-1 X-BeenThere: mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7.cp2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_okiebenz.com.okiebenz.com> List-Unsubscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: </pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com> List-Post: <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:35:29 -0000 I've never seen a Wal-Mart that didn't have gallons upon gallons of 5w30 and 10w30 but rarely do I ever see any amount of 15w50 or any other useful weight. I have a cousin that manages the sporting goods department at a Wal-Mart in Maine. He tells how when he started they were in a bad way because theres not a tremendous amount of bass fishing in Maine and bass gear is absolutely no good for trout. It apparently took him YEARS to convince home office that sending him a stack of bass stuff was only going to result in him sending most of it back but in the winter time they could send him icefishing stuff because that would move. Apparently in more recent years this has gotten to be a whole lot less of an issue. Wal-Mart is known for being the ultimate make a buck retailer so it surprises me that they would do something that foolish, but you never can tell, it could have been a regional guy or something... -Curt Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:53:36 -0400 From: "Gary Hurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] I give up on Mobil-1 To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed availability depends largely on the area. see, as sick as this sounds to you, stores don't discriminate inventory based on the customer base. I worked in retail years ago at a department store with a fairly affluent clientelle. this chain also had stores with much poorer customers. as a general rule, the poor stores sold a very high percentage of $59 cookware sets and the store i was at sold every $800 cookware set within 2 days of receipt. the poor area stores couldn't sell an $800 cookware set to save their lives. consequently, we always had tons of $59 cookware sets and they always had tons of $800 sets. no one was happy! here on the north side of atlanta you simply CANNOT find the 15w50 at walmart because of the all the euro cars. basically, if anyone dunwoody or alpharetta sees 15w50, he just grabs it all and runs. all that is left is the lightweight oil. so the answer is to go out where everyone drives modern ford pickemup trucks that use super light oil. those walmarts will have no 5w30, but lots of 15W50. simple, no? --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 01 14:39:56 2006 Received: from web32806.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.206.36]) by server8.arterytc8.net with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FwgdY-0003Ld-CO for mercedes@okiebenz.com; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:39:56 +0000 Received: (qmail 6223 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Jul 2006 14:39:48 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [71.233.183.51] by web32806.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:39:48 PDT Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 07:39:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.7.cp2 Subject: Re: [MBZ] Rains back east ... X-BeenThere: mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7.cp2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_okiebenz.com.okiebenz.com> List-Unsubscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: </pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com> List-Post: <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:39:56 -0000 Fred would be one to ask, Dwight and John Peterson if they're on the list still too. I live in hill country, no flooding up here although most everybody's lawn is still squishy... I didn't get to ride my motorcycle ONCE in the month of June, it rained nearly every day. -Curt Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:29:40 -0600 From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [MBZ] Rains back east ... To: mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Marshall, et al. back east, You guys doing all right? I've seen pictures of LOTS of flooding. Craig --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 01 14:43:47 2006 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]) by server8.arterytc8.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FwghG-0003hJ-Uq for mercedes@okiebenz.com; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:43:47 +0000 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f25so1084112pyf for <mercedes@okiebenz.com>; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.84.16 with SMTP id m16mr1403793pyl; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.86.13 with HTTP; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 07:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 07:43:38 -0700 From: Zeitgeist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.7.cp2 Subject: Re: [MBZ] Sudden loss of oil pressure X-BeenThere: mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7.cp2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_okiebenz.com.okiebenz.com> List-Unsubscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: </pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com> List-Post: <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:43:47 -0000 I'm not familiar with a Farmall 2-point hitch, though my Iseki has an interesting 4-point hitch. Three point is a real bitch to use if the implement is big and imobile; think rototiller or harrow, etc. But, if the tractor has adjustable quick release lower arms, it's a real cinch. On 6/30/06, Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey, does your tractor have a 3 point hitch? IIRC, Farmall was a bit > > late > > to climb on board with Harry Ferguson's universal hitch set up. > > Having actually _used_ Farmall's 2-point fast-hitch system, I can't > understand why anybody would ever want to use anything else. The > fact that the 3-point won out is a little like WalMart winning, > leaving no place else to do business. Yeah, it'll get the job > done, but it makes you want to wash your hands afterwards. > > Casey Olympia, WA Biodiesel: "I drive in a persistent vegetative state" '87 300TD intercooler #22 (216k) '84 300D (214k) Gashuffer: '89 Vanagon Wolfsburg Edition (187K) http://users.zhonka.net/zeitgeist/Misc/IMG_0171.JPG
