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Topic: A/C Crawlers

Posted By: catskinner
Subject: A/C Crawlers
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2012 at 7:58pm

Catskinner here, I just registered today and would like to greet all A/C fans. At four o'clock yesterday we hit the start button and after bleeding injectors got a 35 year old A/C nestled into a 50 year old HD11 blowing black smoke out the stack! It's been an effort, believe me. New bottom crank bearings, the old oil pan modified, the oil pump suction tubes all re-formed to fit a much deeper sump because the engine was from a Gleaner and we needed the ability to pump oil with the tractor on 35 degree + hillsides. Tomorrow we'll install new driveline, finish the air conditioner condenser install, and most important..solve the 80 PSI oil pressure problem. The folks I work for have 8 old A/C crawlers, dating from 1953 to '63 mostly re-powered with Detroit 2 cycle screamers. We grow wheat,seed peas,garbanzos. Pictures to follow. Thanks for reading, catskinner.

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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2012 at 8:24pm

Seems Detroits ended back in quit a few AC machines after AC went to their own or Buda engines. Seen one in central MN with a 318 - 8V-71 in it they use for a push cat for scrapers.

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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2012 at 8:47pm

Welcome aboard, catskinner! You must be farming the mountainsides of the Pelouse, or however it is spelled. Darrel

Posted By: Ages Cat
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2012 at 10:30pm

A shot of our HD-6 herd.

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Posted By: catskinner
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2012 at 8:03pm

Yes, that's right, the Palouse area from Spokane south to here, Walla Walla. We farm land so steep that you can till both sides of the same acre ! It's been too wet to get into the field so far this spring, after a real dry winter we're still 4 inches behind. We're getting shop fever and need to get out and turn some dirt.