She Is Risen!

Fleta says tractors are shes!
 Larry and I went to the Choctaw Nation and bought a Cub a couple of weeks back.  The owner was the nephew of J. C. Potter.  Someone wanted it up at Parthenon, Ar.  Well, last summer Larry had tried to buy this 53 model from an 84 year old gentleman who lives in the Cherokee Nation.  He went to get it a week ago today.  The Cub had not run since 2001 so buying it was a gamble.  Larry worked on it in the shade of the shop.  He got it running in only a day.  He set the points and bought a coil.  But right away he noticed it had zero oil pressure.  If he had let it run long, it would have ruined the motor.  What Larry said was there was a vacumn in the oil pump.

Larry rigged a tube with a syringe attached.  I poured oil into the tube as he held it.  I guess this oil went into the pump...but really don't know. Larry had drained the oil and the oil near the filter was thick.  Well, it only took him an hour or so and he had it going and you can see the oil pressure gauge is off zero!  In the first video, you can see Larry turn the tractor over and the tube bubbled.  He was really happy as he said it was pumping the oil!  I even enjoyed helping and am happy to see it run again.  After those 13 years of sitting, it still sounds good.  The gentleman had moved to OK from Kentucky (we think it was used to work tobacco) and brought the tractor, but after he unloaded it in OK it never started again.  Larry said he was lucky that the guy did not get it going because it would have ruined the motor since it was not moving the oil!

This video shows the rigged up tube to put the oil in!

Here is the 53 Cub clicking!