Acquired me a 1952 Ford 8N

[Sneakymedic]

Did you change the condenser in the distributor?

 

[OldNascar]

If you tighten the fuel bowl up too tight (cause we want it super tight, that's how we are) it wont breathe and will fuel lock. that gasket, usually cork, and most often replaced by a rubber one, has to allow some air to flow around. So, you will open the fuel knob, see fuel swishing around in the bowl, but then it wont flow to carb.


I've had several do this. Its kind of a fine line, not too tight to allow it to breathe, not too loose so it wont leak.

It’s been years since I fooled with a 8N carb but I thought there was a vent hole above the fuel bowl. If not maybe the ones I dealt with had been modified by drilling a vent hole. Certainly any carb has to have air on the opposing side if the fuel is to be drawn by vacuum.

 

[Snal~]

She's purring like a kitten! I DID miss the main jet. What the manual calls a needle-seat-power jet is what I thought was the main. Should have known that the main was under the emulsion tube....had to shine a light down there to see it. She fired right up and ran well with the new main!

 

[brud720]

Nice score!

The best, hand down, implement for maintaining a driveway that I've ever used is called an Agritek Driveway Scraper. We use ours all the time, not only on driveways but also horse arena's, leveling out pastures, etc.

Much better than a box or straight blade, IMO.

Driveway Scrapers - Agritek Industries Inc.

www.agritek.com

Can those be set up to keep or put a crown on the road? A road is a ditch without crown on it.

 

[Scsmith42]

Can those be set up to keep or put a crown on the road? A road is a ditch without crown on it.

What I do with mine is set the three point so that it's slightly angled down to the outside, and then make a pass down each side of the road. Once the crown is established, I'll set it to grade flat but run the tractor so that one edge is in the middle of the road and the other edge off to the side in the swale.

Works fine for creating and maintaining a crowned road by using this method.

 

[brud720]

What I do with mine is set the three point so that it's slightly angled down to the outside, and then make a pass down each side of the road. Once the crown is established, I'll set it to grade flat but run the tractor so that one edge is in the middle of the road and the other edge off to the side in the swale.

Works fine for creating and maintaining a crowned road by using this method.

Thanks, I'll check them out for sure.