Jinma 284

[greg_g]

Switching to a low profile battery was one of the followup "tricks" I was going to suggest. But the one that really steadied the operating temp on my Jinmas was the remote air intake. Besides battery blockage, there's that big air cleaner housing in front of the radiator. The voluminous intake creates a vortex or sworl in front of the radiator, which in turn affects flow through the radiator. I went to a farm store and bought five feet of 2" suction hose, and cut it into two sections; one two footer and one three footer. I rotated the metal air intake hole so it was facing up, then put one end of the 3 foot section there. I ran the hose alongside the engine and fuel tank. It sucked cool(er) air from down by my left shin.

This actually made it run too cold in the winter. That's what the two foot section was for. In the fall I'd swap hoses, and run the two foot section over the opposite side of the engine where it picked up warmer air over the exhaust manifold.

//greg//

 

[3RRL]

Good luck with selling your tractor.
Perhaps Tommy can let you know about the reserve price?
I've been following this thread hoping to see what you did will help keep the temperature at (or around) 80C. Unless I missed it, one other area to check is your air filter. When mine gets clogged up, it starts to run hotter. You might take a look at that if you haven't done so already.
Rob-

 

[greg_g]

It sucked cool(er) air from down by my left shin.

What I neglected to add, is that remoting the air intake effectively stills the vortex in front of the radiator - permitting the poor little plastic fan to more effectively draw air through the heat exchanger.

//greg//

 

[Kernopelli]

Thanks Rob (and Greg), The tractor is running great BTW! I have put it on ebay already. I love Ebay and buy quite a bit off it but hate selling things on it....I have had a couple of real idiots totally screw me on purchases. Either no feedback bidders winning and never responding back or "hostage takers" who threaten to give you bad feedback if you don't give them the item or reduce it considerably ( Ebay has since changed their policies so that can't happen any more). I must attract them because my purchasing experience is about 99+ % good, my selling experiences are about 40% bad. Anyway, you can't beat the exposure an item gets.

I always try to end an auction on Sunday night around 7PM local time. I made my template and scheduled it to run for 7 days, ending on Sunday at 7pm. After the auction had been running for awhile, I get up early one morning and try to log in and can't. Turns out Ebay locked my account AND deleted the auction from their system. I finally got a response from them and they told me that I had never sold a tractor on Ebay before so they assumed my account had been hijacked and it was a fraudulent auction.........what the ??????? I asked them why they didn't just contact me and ask, since they have my email account and phone number, which can't be hijacked. Well....."that's just the way we do it. Sorry." was their response. They reset my account and apologized but I had to completely redo the auction which left me a little miffed but the auction is going well.
I decided on what I feel is a very reasonable reserve. It's less than I've ever seen just the tractor sell for on Ebay, plus I am including the implements. I had two bidders immediately and had over 30 "auction watchers" in just two days so I am confident it will sell. The real bidding usually doesn't start until the last hour or two and It's always fun to see how the snipers react during the last few seconds. I have seen auction prices double or triple during the last 5 seconds many times. I also have an old friend who saw it on ebay and called me and is possibly interested in it. He bought a tractor from me once before to resell so maybe he'll end up with it, who knows? I really do hate to see it go though.

BTW Greg, I just noticed that we're "neighbors" I am down in the Paducah and Murray ares often and used to ride dirt bikes around the LBL all the time, also work not too far from the IL/KY border.

 

[bjr]

Why not Graigs Lists and local nickel saver papers? All my sale go there now. I stay off Ebay for all the reasons you listed. Maybe Ebay has seen it's time come and gone, kinda a flash in the pan and the shipping thing just got out of control. Prices for the most part were near retail,so for me, I gave up on Ebay. bjr

 

[psj12]

I have only had one bad selling experience on ebay. That occured when I had a ATV for sale. It seems that someone's account got hyjacked and the perpetrator used it to bid high on every ATV closing that day. The poor lady who's account was hyjacked had purchased 100 or so ATVs. Ebay let her out of all deals and relisted all the closed sales. I did not receive as much on the relisting as I already had bids for on the original listing prior to the hyjacking.

I have found Craigs list to be pretty poor at reaching a large enough audience. Additionally it is fairly localized and most of the things I sell are capable of being shipped.