I bought a '54 Ford 800 series with a 5' mower for $3,000 right before deployment mostly for mowing and brush hogging my 39ac. Everything ran just fine when I went and checked it out, of course when I brought it home and started using it, things went south. After putting proper hydraulic fluid in, I took it out to mow. It mowed fine for about 5 minutes, then started to sputter and die. I figured I just hit a super thick patch which was probably a little wet from the previous rains, so I went back at it. It got to the point where I could only mow 1' strips (2-3' tall grass, mostly dry) with full throttle. We replaced the gas, plugs, wires, battery, coil and condenser with nothing other than maybe a minute improvement. My uncles 32hp Kubota pulled the mower through the thickest pasture with no problema whatsoever.
So do y'all think I should spend the extra moolah doing an entire overhaul including carb rebuild, gasket, piston, sleeve and ring kit, new valves and a pump rebuild kit for about $1,000 total, or should I give it a krylon overhaul and part with it?
Thanks for the input.
So do y'all think I should spend the extra moolah doing an entire overhaul including carb rebuild, gasket, piston, sleeve and ring kit, new valves and a pump rebuild kit for about $1,000 total, or should I give it a krylon overhaul and part with it?
Thanks for the input.