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Topic: 1941 C

Posted By: allis g
Subject: 1941 C
Date 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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Posted By: Les Royer
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 4:35am

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.

Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 9:50am

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

Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date 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

Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 2:54pm

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.

Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 3:20pm

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.

Posted By: weiner
Date 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.

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Posted By: FloydKS
Date 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline" rel="nofollow - 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_dyes" rel="nofollow - Un-dyed gasoline

White gas should not be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_spirit" rel="nofollow - white spirit , which is more akin to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene" rel="nofollow - kerosene .

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