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allis g 
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 12:31am |
Ok guys I got the old girl running after cleaning the goo out of the carb and fuel tank. Put new plugs in and after a few turns of the crank she roared to life. This is an original war C. Should I be using a leaded gas additive in the fuel or is todays unleaded gas ok.
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Les Royer
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 4:35am |
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I didn't know you could still buy the lead additive, I hadn't seen it around fer quite some time. But that's not all.
I think you need to buy every additive on the shelf cause the gas nowadays ain't worth a crap if you ask me.
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I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now.
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Dakota Dave
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 9:50am |
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As long as you've cleaned all the old gunk out your fine running pump gas. Your tractor dosent have enough compression nor run fastenough to need the lead. It'll take decades of moderate use before valve seat wear will become a problem. If you've put a kit in the carb the float valve in it was the only rubber part that if it was still original it would have been eaten but the alcohol in the new gas. Those have been alcohol safe for decades in any overhaul kit. The rest of your fuel system is metal
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 12:10pm |
I would use a fuel additive such as Stabil or seafoam. I use it in mine year around and don't have trouble with this great fuel we get now going bad. Tom
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Dick L
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 2:54pm |
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As long as your not going to take it out and farm with it 10 hours a day year in and year out I wouldn't worry much what gas I used.
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CrestonM
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 3:20pm |
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Everybody talks about gas being so bad these days, but I’ve never had an issue with it unless it sat for about 10 or 15 years. Course, I think part of it is I only buy pure gas, none of the ethanol stuff. I’ve had some gas/oil mixed up for my leaf blower since 2016, and there’s nothing wrong with it yet.
Sometimes if I know something is going to sit I will put Sta-Bil in it, and that seems to help. Grandpa always says the gas they used to have was much worse than what we have now days. Said it wouldn’t last more than a month or two before going bad.
Edited by CrestonM - 19 Apr 2018 at 3:40pm
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weiner
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 6:46pm |
Back in the 40s and 50s dad always went down and bought white gas to use in certain things. Don`t have a clue what it was, maybe unleaded gas. He used a brass container blow torch that he pumped pressure in used that white gasoline in. I have a 52 super "C" that I use a lead additive in when I can find it. I always use a good dose of gas stable and a carb cleaner and Marvel Mystery Oil in all my little engines that don`t get run very much, I know it helps to keep things clean. I despise working on carburetors.
Edited by weiner - 19 Apr 2018 at 6:57pm
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FloydKS
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 8:42pm |
When I was a kid I think we always called it Kerosene... this is from Wikipedia and gives a more detailed answer... White gas is a common name for a number of flammable substances:
- As a generic term for camp stove and lantern fuel, its most popular current usage
- Pure gasoline
(without additives), commonly used when leaded gasoline was the norm to
prevent fouling in situations where the properties of the lead additive
were not required
- Un-dyed gasoline
White gas should not be confused with white spirit, which is more akin to kerosene.
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weiner
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 7:22pm |
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This was not kerosene, we had that too in another container and it smelled like gasoline.
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Ted J
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Posted: 21 Apr 2018 at 8:36pm |
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allis g, what is the serial # on yours? The serial # on mine is 3308. Mine is an early 41.
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"Allis-Express"
19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17
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allis g
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Posted: 21 Apr 2018 at 9:27pm |
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Have to look tomorrow as I remember it's somewhere in the 2000's. Do you have road bands on yours?
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Ted J
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Posted: 21 Apr 2018 at 9:45pm |
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No, I have rubber on it. That's the way it came and I'm glad, cause I cut grass with it.
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"Allis-Express"
19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17
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allis g
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Posted: 21 Apr 2018 at 9:50pm |
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I was told that the war tractors came with steel wheels because of the war effort all the rubber went to war. After the war allis put rubber on the tractors. That's why the steel wheel originals are so rare.
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