Thoughts on 706 gas.

I will be mainly using it for 3 point work / grading.
Thanks
Charlie English Jr

I had a 706 gas years ago and it was one of the nicest tractors I have ever owned. Big enough to do some serious work but small enough to be agile and very easy to work with. That gas engine just purrs.

I like them and have sold a bunch of them , But some people do not like the down side of them and that is they need hightest gas as they were made when reg gas was 95 octane and the lowest you can run is 93 . My two closet friend have the two that i sold them many years ago and still run them every day . If you run them the way they were meant to be run they are a great tractor . The one 706 does all the chore work every day and will start no matter the weather . The other one gets the bag run off of it doing just about all the work except the plowing and disking and gets around 500-600 hours use a year and it did it all till the 1066 came along
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Run them the way they are supposed to be run. And how is that supposed to be.
We did not run our tractors hard but did run steady.

steveormary

What i should have said is that you run the low ash 30 weight oil the proper octane gas keep the engine in tune and that tractor will do everything it was made to do for years to come . And if you ran my one buddys 706 i am sure it would empress you as it still empresses me every time i run it . when i rebuilt that one i went the extra mile on the rebuild . We did not just do a rebuild we BUILT that one with a line bore had the cam rebuilt and blue printed we did a total balance job on all rotating parts decked the block recut the countor bore set sleeve hight to the letter C/Ced the head fit each piston to each hole along with the rings did a slight recurve on the advance of the dist reworked the governor slight mods to the carb and the end results are it flat up and runs and it has been 8 years now since the rebuild and the only problem we have had is when the one fuel supplier brought the wrong gas and he never told us and it ate a piston and i had to put one new piston in it , they paid the bill and as for the fuel use of a 706 gasser when they are tuned correctly i do not feel that they are bad at all . Yes they will burn gas but stop and think just how much gas your pick up would burn in say eight hours if you were working it pulling a trailer with a load on it runing the same rpm sure you may cover more miles as far as ground speed but if you took that pick up engine and put it in a tractor turning the same rpm and covering the same ground you would find out that the pick up engine would use twice the fuel real fast
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tracror vet;

Good answer. And a good rebuild job.

Be careful and have some fun with your tractors.

steveormary