Post by Nick on Aug 26, 2013 16:24:17 GMT
As most of you know I only had the chance to be at ED4 on the saturday (an evening I wont forget in a hurry..) but boy what a great saturday it was.. first off the weather was bloody awful to say the least, the rain just came and came and came.. but did it stop miracles happening? no it didnt, me and the lad dived in Gina saturday morning and headed for Essex, an absolutely faultless drive down only marred by the fact the cd player I had been given was not playing ball and randomly skipping segments of discs when it could even be bothered to read them at all, we also noted a slight exhaust blow beginning to show itself but we got to Essex without problem none the less (thank you my little 46 x)
On arrival I met Ken, Matt and Lou (Victor and Dave for those in the know)and later found Lewis already heavily tinkering. The project for the weekend had indeed turned out to be a rather tired looking ferguson T20P tractor which hadnt run for over 10 years, also it was good to meet a group of young future enthusiasts, one of whom had recently bought that 55 estate in blue that was on ebay (my apologies for forgetting your name im very bad with names) and also Eric appeared during the rains..
This is a fergy engine, basically a standard Ensign engine in low compression form (had it been a TvO engine it would have had 2 headgaskets with a massive spacer inbetween to decrease the compression even further !)
4 cylinder engine standard overhead valve setup like most of the 4 cylinder engines of the era, breathing UP through a tiny carb hung off the bottom of the inlet manifold.
First off we investigated wether or not the engine had a spark, Gina donated her battery temporarily and once the starter contacts were bridged the starter whirred into life proving the engine turned freely but there was no spark.
Point gaps were checked and a cleaning of them proved fruitless so Joe and Lewis headed off for a cup of tea leaving me to my own devices, I whipped the points out and using some serious farm grade sand paper polished the point faces to a mirror finish, after refitting them and bridging the starter (fuel can as a tan khad been done by Lewis previously) I was greeted by a backfire of sufficient force to sit me on my bum. Expecting the others to come running back at this point I stopped and waited for my ears to stop ringing but it was another 10 minutes before they came back suitably lubricated up. I warned Joe it was backfiring and he proceeded to repeat the starting procedure (i got my fingers in my ears just in time to be greeted by a bang of similiar power to the previous one)
We popped out a plug and got no1 piston to TDC wether or not it was on firing stroke I didnt know as the valves were still hidden under the rocker cover but none the less we knew it had to be firing on either 1 or 4 at this point, looking into the brand new distributor revealed however that it was trying to fire on no3 so a quick rethink of the leads was undertaken along with an approximate time using a meter across the points..
When we tried to start it again she went almost immediately, showing a 60psi oil pressure wthin seconds and sounding pretty sweet considering her exhaust was 2ft long and a bit of rusty pipe.
This was the switch for the starter that was actually actuated by the gear lever (where 5th would be on a modern gearchange) clever stuff !! we had to polish it up internally to get it working though, everything on this tractor was of a "strip it and fix it" design.
this was the result
Howard had also been present and I now hear that hes thinking of getting a tractor !!!
Lewis then proceeded with Joes help to strip out the incredibly flaky wiring loom and rebuild one using donor cable from a daf 66 wiring loom
meanwhile however the rain had got worse..
at this point a decision was made for those with the facilities to get changed and a meet up time was arranged for the pub....
Howard myself and Adam my son headed for the pub as we had no facilities to speak of (we slept in the 46 with a duvet between us on a reclined seat each!)
Heres a future daf owner, by this point he had already decided he wants a 33 as his first car, its your choice son x
Pool madness then ensued as they let Lewis on the table.. only being ousted after a rack of games to his name...
ken meanwhile hid in the background "refuelling"
Matt could only watch on in horror as Lewis dispatched Joe leaving ALL 7 of his balls on the table (sorry Joe it did happen)
Lewis then started "showboating" this was supposed to be a magic shot but sadly it didnt happen (even though he still won)
I then started to play with the camera a bit and got this moody B+W shot of Matt and Ken, but on closer inspection it actually revealed Ken had turned into the piano playing dog off the muppets....
black nose and ear clearly visible... (only joking Ken)
The boys then proceeded to give my lad some serious Pool instruction
and of course Lewis still won....
It all became too much for the young lad and we found him in the corner a few hours later....
Lastly (from me) As Pete wasnt present I offer this as an impromptu Caption Competition..... I'll let Pete pick the winner though
On arrival I met Ken, Matt and Lou (Victor and Dave for those in the know)and later found Lewis already heavily tinkering. The project for the weekend had indeed turned out to be a rather tired looking ferguson T20P tractor which hadnt run for over 10 years, also it was good to meet a group of young future enthusiasts, one of whom had recently bought that 55 estate in blue that was on ebay (my apologies for forgetting your name im very bad with names) and also Eric appeared during the rains..
This is a fergy engine, basically a standard Ensign engine in low compression form (had it been a TvO engine it would have had 2 headgaskets with a massive spacer inbetween to decrease the compression even further !)
4 cylinder engine standard overhead valve setup like most of the 4 cylinder engines of the era, breathing UP through a tiny carb hung off the bottom of the inlet manifold.
First off we investigated wether or not the engine had a spark, Gina donated her battery temporarily and once the starter contacts were bridged the starter whirred into life proving the engine turned freely but there was no spark.
Point gaps were checked and a cleaning of them proved fruitless so Joe and Lewis headed off for a cup of tea leaving me to my own devices, I whipped the points out and using some serious farm grade sand paper polished the point faces to a mirror finish, after refitting them and bridging the starter (fuel can as a tan khad been done by Lewis previously) I was greeted by a backfire of sufficient force to sit me on my bum. Expecting the others to come running back at this point I stopped and waited for my ears to stop ringing but it was another 10 minutes before they came back suitably lubricated up. I warned Joe it was backfiring and he proceeded to repeat the starting procedure (i got my fingers in my ears just in time to be greeted by a bang of similiar power to the previous one)
We popped out a plug and got no1 piston to TDC wether or not it was on firing stroke I didnt know as the valves were still hidden under the rocker cover but none the less we knew it had to be firing on either 1 or 4 at this point, looking into the brand new distributor revealed however that it was trying to fire on no3 so a quick rethink of the leads was undertaken along with an approximate time using a meter across the points..
When we tried to start it again she went almost immediately, showing a 60psi oil pressure wthin seconds and sounding pretty sweet considering her exhaust was 2ft long and a bit of rusty pipe.
This was the switch for the starter that was actually actuated by the gear lever (where 5th would be on a modern gearchange) clever stuff !! we had to polish it up internally to get it working though, everything on this tractor was of a "strip it and fix it" design.
this was the result
Howard had also been present and I now hear that hes thinking of getting a tractor !!!
Lewis then proceeded with Joes help to strip out the incredibly flaky wiring loom and rebuild one using donor cable from a daf 66 wiring loom
meanwhile however the rain had got worse..
at this point a decision was made for those with the facilities to get changed and a meet up time was arranged for the pub....
Howard myself and Adam my son headed for the pub as we had no facilities to speak of (we slept in the 46 with a duvet between us on a reclined seat each!)
Heres a future daf owner, by this point he had already decided he wants a 33 as his first car, its your choice son x
Pool madness then ensued as they let Lewis on the table.. only being ousted after a rack of games to his name...
ken meanwhile hid in the background "refuelling"
Matt could only watch on in horror as Lewis dispatched Joe leaving ALL 7 of his balls on the table (sorry Joe it did happen)
Lewis then started "showboating" this was supposed to be a magic shot but sadly it didnt happen (even though he still won)
I then started to play with the camera a bit and got this moody B+W shot of Matt and Ken, but on closer inspection it actually revealed Ken had turned into the piano playing dog off the muppets....
black nose and ear clearly visible... (only joking Ken)
The boys then proceeded to give my lad some serious Pool instruction
and of course Lewis still won....
It all became too much for the young lad and we found him in the corner a few hours later....
Lastly (from me) As Pete wasnt present I offer this as an impromptu Caption Competition..... I'll let Pete pick the winner though