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catskinner
Silver Level Joined: 18 Mar 2012 Location: Walla Walla WA Points: 61 |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2012 at 7:58pm |
Catskinner here, I just registered today and would like to greet all A/C fans. At four o'clock yesterday we hit the start button and after bleeding injectors got a 35 year old A/C nestled into a 50 year old HD11 blowing black smoke out the stack! It's been an effort, believe me. New bottom crank bearings, the old oil pan modified, the oil pump suction tubes all re-formed to fit a much deeper sump because the engine was from a Gleaner and we needed the ability to pump oil with the tractor on 35 degree + hillsides. Tomorrow we'll install new driveline, finish the air conditioner condenser install, and most important..solve the 80 PSI oil pressure problem. The folks I work for have 8 old A/C crawlers, dating from 1953 to '63 mostly re-powered with Detroit 2 cycle screamers. We grow wheat,seed peas,garbanzos. Pictures to follow. Thanks for reading, catskinner.
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Coke-in-MN
Orange Level Access Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: Afton MN Points: 41211 |
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Seems Detroits ended back in quit a few AC machines after AC went to their own or Buda engines. Seen one in central MN with a 318 - 8V-71 in it they use for a push cat for scrapers.
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darrel in ND
Orange Level Joined: 22 Nov 2009 Location: Hebron, ND Points: 8585 |
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Welcome aboard, catskinner! You must be farming the mountainsides of the Pelouse, or however it is spelled. Darrel
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Ages Cat
Orange Level Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: Hutchinson, MN Points: 681 |
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A shot of our HD-6 herd.
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catskinner
Silver Level Joined: 18 Mar 2012 Location: Walla Walla WA Points: 61 |
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Yes, that's right, the Palouse area from Spokane south to here, Walla Walla. We farm land so steep that you can till both sides of the same acre ! It's been too wet to get into the field so far this spring, after a real dry winter we're still 4 inches behind. We're getting shop fever and need to get out and turn some dirt.
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