On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 08:33:22 -0600, dpb wrote:

On 11/18/2014 12:20 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:59:49 -0600, 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).

"Know nuthink!" about British International but one had to be a man
before power steering on any of 'em. The little WD45 was bad enough,
the old Twin City steel wheel was nearly impossible to get out of a
furrow in the sand out here. It was relegated to the equipment line by
the time I was working in fields but it still ran and used it some for
spot duty. Even around the farmstead on hard ground was all I could do
to turn it at all at age 12 or so...
The old Massy was easy to turn compared to the 540. We had a big
counterweight on the back, but you still pretty well had to have the
bucket on the ground to turn the front wheels. The Massy was something
like 8 or 10 turns lock to lock, from what I remember, and the 540
and the B414 were closer to 6