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Kerosene head on my H

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C'ville Bill

01-04-2004 12:08:07




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I just discovered my 1940 H is equipped with the kerosene head with the short, approx. 5 inch, valves. I was surprised because my dad bought the tractor 30 years ago and we always ran it on gasoline. Is the kerosene head rare and worth restoring? It looks like parts might be hard to find. Any idea how performance may have been affected by burning gasoline in this engine?
Thanks, C'ville Bill

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Bill Smith

01-04-2004 12:48:50




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 Re: Kerosene head on my H in reply to C'ville Bill, 01-04-2004 12:08:07  
The kerosene option was fairly popular on the H (not very rare) especially on the older H's. Became somewhat less popular in later production of the H. X1 at the end of the serial number indicates a gasoline burning H. I think X3 at the end indicates kerosene burning. The kerosene burner was designed to start on and be shut down on gas. Your tractor originally had a little secondary fuel tank for the gas. You controlled the fuel flow by opening and closing the valves under the tanks (thus controlling which fuel you were burning). It would only burn the kerosene when engine was warmed up to operating temperatures. The kero burning manifold had an adjustment on it to warm up the intake air while burning kero. It also likley had radiator shutters originally to help warm the tractor up faster and stay warmer in cold weather for burning the kero. Most of the kero burners are like yours, they haven't seen kero in years and have just been run on straight gas all the time. Doesn't hurt them a bit, but may have slightly less power than the original gas burners. Fix up and restore the way you please. If you want to fix it up as original, that's fine but there really isn't much need to try to burn the kero these days. You would most likely need an original manifold that is functional along with fuctional reserve gas tank and shutters to burn the kero. I got one and just burn gas in it.

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wally

01-09-2004 09:53:36




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 Re: Re: Kerosene head on my H in reply to Bill Smith, 01-04-2004 12:48:50  
does the m serial number indicate kerosene head vs gas head also?



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tommy H

01-04-2004 12:13:13




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 Re: Kerosene head on my H in reply to C'ville Bill, 01-04-2004 12:08:07  
Kerosene head has lower compression. So youve not been getting full power.



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