1941 FARMALL H BATTERY CONNECTION FUEL

Anonymous-0 · Jun 28, 2010

I have recently bought a 1941 H Farmall. Everything seems to be original. Two questions.
How does the battery cables hook up. Does positive cable going go to ground or to starter.
It has two tanks, what fuel goes in the big tank and what goes in the smaller one.

Ben

Michael Soldan · Jun 28, 2010

The H is positive ground. The small tank originally was for gasoline to start the tractor on and then you switched to the large tank which used kerosene. Most of these tractors had the line from the small tank disconnected years ago and it just burns gasoline from the big tank. If it hasn't been monkeyed with there should be a heat shield over the manifold,a baffle in the exhaust and shutters on the rad. You started on gasoline, switched over to kerosene , closed the shutters until you heat guage was in the "Run"...the heat shield and shutters made the tractor run hotter and thus more efficient with kerosene. My Dad ran an M on kerosene during WW2. He said the tractor set up properly for kerosene would pull like a trooper and seemed to have slightly more power than running on gasoline. You had to know what you were doing when you set up for burning distilates. Those tractors were designed for distilates rather than gasoline.

El Toro · Jun 28, 2010

If the tractor is still 6 volts the + positive terminal would be grounded. Your tractor may have been setup for using kerosene and gas was used in the small tank for starting. Then the big tank would contain kerosene. You could use the small tank for a reserve tank and fill both with gasoline. Hal
PS: The 10-20 we had had that small tank and we never used it since we used gasoline. Gasoline was only 16 cents a gallon. It may have been cheaper since we had a storage tank on the farm. Gas was 19 cents when I got out of the Army in 1955.

El Toro · Jun 28, 2010

If the tractor is still 6 volts the + positive terminal would be grounded. Your tractor may have been setup for using kerosene and gas was used in the small tank for starting. Then the big tank would contain kerosene. You could use the small tank for a reserve tank and fill both with gasoline. Hal
PS: The 10-20 we had had that small tank and we never used it since we used gasoline. Gasoline was only 16 cents a gallon. It may have been cheaper since we had a storage tank on the farm. Gas was 19 cents when I got out of the Army in 1955.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 28, 2010

So I just run regular in the tractor. is that the appropriate fuel to use. I read when changing the oil and running it, it was good to know if Non detergent or Detergent oil was run in it. It look to be pretty much all original and had set in a garage for many years but was occasionally cranked up. I bought it at an auction. It was an original owner who had passed away.

Wild Bill · Jun 28, 2010

you have a distillate H. The small tank was for gasoline to start the tractor on. The large tank held Distillate tractor fuel (not quite gas, not quite kerosene, and not made anymore). When the engine was warm, the operator turned off the gasoline, and turned on the distillate.

Good news is, you can run gasoline in it full time, so fill the large tank with gas.

If it has an alternator, odds are it is a 12 volt system, and should be wired with the negative to ground. If it has a generator, odds are that it is a 6 volt system, and the positive post should go to ground.

What kind of battery is in it now?

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