Here is Cliff's newest Challenge: Our neighbor's 1956 Standard International tractor. It has the same engine as the SWD9. (Whatever that is.) To get it started, it has to be warmed up on gas, then switched to diesel. That's what makes it rare. This tractor was only built one year.
It had been setting for a long time, and the engine was stuck tight. Arick, who does the actual work, tried several remedies; my husband calls those remedies "old Indian tricks". One of the tricks worked and the engine is free.
So far, no more work has been done on it because Randy, the neighbor, had to make up his mind how much money he wants to part with. There is one mystery we have to pursue before Randy sinks money in an overhaul, which would cost over $2,000. When they started dismantling the engine, it had new oil in in, new antifreeze, and didn't appear to ever have been started! It was too clean inside the engine.
So to pursue the problem, they are going put it back together and see if they can get it running rather than overhaul it. All Randy will have to buy is oil, antifreeze, a head gasket, and a battery. Then they will try to find another old Indian remedy.
Randy has ordered the head gasket, so we wait to see what happens next. Stay tuned.
We haven't done much today. Cora spent a few hours with us; there has been no school for the kids around here all week, thanks to the snow. By the way, we had another inch or so of the white stuff last night.
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