On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:59:49 -0600, dpb wrote:

On 11/17/2014 7:27 PM, wrote:
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My kid brother has an old Allis D series - I think it's a 17 - about
a 1958 model?

That'd be early one; first series was '57 thru '59 or perhaps '60;
stayed in production thru the Series IV up to about '69 or '70...ours
was a Series II in '60 or '61.
The stove on his manifold was burned through - didn't run worth squat
'till I found him a new manifold. Too much EGR!!!
He's got one of those crappy old British International tractors too -
a B414 diesel with a front end loader. Darn things never did steer
well with a loader on them - you need biceps like Popeye. Miserable
things to start anything below about 55 F too. - even with new glo
plugs.(and almost perfect compression).