On Wednesday 05 June 2019 01:06:33 am Andy Pugh wrote:

> > On 5 Jun 2019, at 00:15, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Get up this morning, check the oil & its 1/2" overfull???
>
> Is it a vacuum fuel tap? If the vacuum diaphragm goes it can let fuel
> in to the crankcase.

No, straight gravity feed, with a hand operated globe valve (1/4 turn) 
shut off in middle of line from tank to carb.  It did not leak, other 
than draining the paper fuel filter downstream of the valve while turned 
off and left hanging when I removed the carb to give it a soaking in 
carb cleaner. I drove it around at idle to park it in front of the 
garage, lots closer to the toolboxes. I have another rider with a 12.5 
it it, and its a tossup, but since the deck on the other one is in much 
better shape, I am tempted to put the rear end/tranny out of the JD 
under the even older craftsman if I can see the shifter can be made to 
work.

But Fred can have that bigger 26 hp craftsman ready in about the same 
time frame if not quicker, with a brand new deck under it. So I think 
I'll wait. This ones big enough to push a snowplow, if A, I can find 
one, and B, global warming ever lets it snow here again. We had 3" once 
last winter, and 3" only makes me drive a little smoother. My F150 crew 
cab is 4wd of course. WV, with all its hills, has more 4wd's than 2wd's 
in the small truck category.  You want flat ground to park it on? Bring 
a cat and a few barrels of #2 to feed it.  Ditto for the mowers, they 
wear wheel weights on the drivers and chains year round.

I saw a 4wd rider, a kubota, at Freds, but it belongs to a local church.  
Sure would have been right at home on my lot. I'd guess it was close to 
$12G's new. Had that teeny single cylinder diesel in it. Wife's niece 
has the same engine in a miniature pickup, 25 yo, starts by steppiing on 
the throttle, and has never been touched. It just fires up and takes you 
anyplace on Rusties place you point it at. He has around 6k acres of 
Cornell land (Cornell is a land grant school) and around 1200 of his 
own. Was dairy farming, but the price paid for milk in the cooler right 
now is about a buck a gallon less than the cows eat, so he quit milking 
3 or 4 years back and is now selling the grain that the milk barn used 
to need. And keeping the rest of the other NY dairy farms stock up. His 
Holstein herd is now a calf factory.

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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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