went pulling friday and saturday

Friday night luck as usual .Cut a tire down on the trailor when I pulled into the Fair grounds .Had that to fix no spare .Then came the pulls . Had a decent run going on friday night in 5000 lbs class tractor was pulling second gear well then the govenor weights exploded . revs went high broke traction and spun out . still a decent run good enough for second place. Got home at one saturday morning couldnt sleep wondering what all  damage was done. Got up at seven went back to fair grounds with a extra gov. Installed it thought I had everything back to the same tune as friday night but I was wrong . I was the only guy there Saturday with a tractor that shakes the ground literally and laid down runs like a piece of junk gov. surging spinning the tires every time it surged . Came back home with a broken starter bendix and fridays trophy . Oh well to say I am wondering now of my tuning duplication ability and know how is probably a good conclusion . Seams my bottom quote applies to me.  Sorry to let the allis fans down I promise I will try to get a better hold on what is going on with it.

Edited by mlpankey - 19 Sep 2010 at 6:43am

At least i wasnt the only one with trubble. The pull i went to yesterday, they tried kicking me out of stock because i had an electric fuel pump, second time this has happened now, apparently they had 30hp or something. Pulled in 5000lbs, spun out with the front end a foot and a half in the air, drive up to the trailer, got off and fluid is pooring from the left side of the tractor, run over a look, lost the adjusting needle from the carb, you would think the needle would be where the puddle of fuel was, nope couldnt find it. so i scratched in 6000lbs. At least i took home 2nd and 30 bucks. Sounds like you had a rough weekend though ml. Better luck next time for the both of us.

    Ya win some and ya loose some.  Some times it is better to be lucky, than good. I'm disappointed too after the  rod ratio, ring placement, etc. discussions. Up here , were done for the year, nothing but "bench racing" or pulling til next spring.  You should have more pulls to go to where you are at  to test your theories . Mebbe you'll get the other , good kind of luck.

Second place Friday is a pretty good feat. You do a lot of work. I am sure you will get a first place finish soon. Good Luck!

I like the attitude! Second is first loser. You've got it right. First Place is the only answer.

Sorry I missed the pull, I had planned on going, but had to much work to do, Hay balers to fix and equip to move. Did they have 4.5 mph speed limit on the super class? The H farmall beat everything last year. Sam T-Ga.

Hopefully you didn't wind up with fragments going any farther than bottom of the pan.

Is a governor 'required' by the rules?

mlpankey wrote: speed limit was 5.5 mile an hour for the farm and antique tractors with 100 ft to get your speed correct.

Another good reason for me to stick with boats - we can sink the dog if it don't hunt.

After watching that video, I can't help but wonder if the gene pool is going to have a few fewer swimmers...

CJohnS MI wrote: DREAM wrote: I like a challenge. Too much time and money in it to trash. Just need to back up and see what is going on. Governor weights may be weak link. May need to Tim Taylor it, just like the rest of that motor. Remeber, stronger=faster=better. "When you stop breaking, you start winning. Ifn you ain't breaking something, you ain't runnin' hard enough." Deel Me In is National points champ as of today in the APBA 7 litre (468 cube chebby)  class. Only took 10 years to get there.

So true we had tires and a clutch that would hold the power we were producing two years ago . Now that we have found some more we need bigger tires and clutch . the gov weights well we have at times had issues with them and worked through them but now they are  back . seams greater power produces greater stress . in more ways than one.