1958 641 w/3 speed transmission and Sherman over/under unit

Kirk-NJ · Jul 7, 2016

If your wife is on board than that's half the battle. The 641 can get a lot of work done and probably uses half the gas that my 4000 does Here my 631 I pulled out of a barn last year where it had been sitting for about 10 years.
The proofmeters usually don,t work so I would count on those hours being correct.

Kirk

gemutlich · Jul 7, 2016

Dang that's a handsome tractor, Kirk.

gemutlich · Jul 12, 2016

Heading up past where this old girl is stowed this coming Saturday, will stop in and check on that shift pattern. Honestly, and I know it don't make any sense, I couldn't see a 4 and man the R looked to be directly above the 2. Will bring the camera and grab a few decent pictures for y'all while I'm there. Bring a socket to pull the sparkplugs with too so I can have a look down her jugs...

Kirk-NJ · Jul 13, 2016

Since it's been sitting you Might want to bring a little ATF maybe to pour into the cylinder. If cylinders are clean you might not need it but a bit couldn't hurt anyway.

Kirk

gemutlich · Jul 14, 2016

Good idea, Kirk. That's my only real concern at this point aside from the xmission mystery is that the walls are dusted over with a light rust from sweating in these CT shoulder seasons. I'd thought about bringing some PB Blaster as a fogging oil, might stop and grab some ATF on the way though just to calm that little voice in my head that's worrying over stuck rings...

Kirk-NJ · Jul 14, 2016

I've freed up sitting engines over the years just using Blaster. Can't hurt. Just once you get it running make sure to change the oil

Kirk

gemutlich · Jul 16, 2016

Yup, we've used coke, atf, kroil, all sorts of stuff. Years ago we were pretty deep into flywheel engines for a hobby, still have a few, boy you'll see engines stuck worse than anything in that hobby Kirk, lol.

So today was the day. Pulled the plugs, they were each as carboned up as the others so I felt good about each cylinder being about the same and that there wasn't any blowby at least not that you'd be able to tell by looking at one plug vs another. Didn't bring my compression tester, will do that next time probably.

Sprayed some PB in each cylinder and let it set for a while as I toddled off after a new battery. The one what was in it, an 8-volt job, was dead and there was no bringing it back to life. Picked up another 8-volt from the tractor supply (man I'd rather go to the dentist than there sometimes...).

Checked the oil and coolant again, all ok there. Dumped in about a gallon of a 5 gallon jug of gas I'd mixed up with 2-cycle oil and a can of Berrymans.

Hit the starter button and let it crank over a little to get some oil pumped back up where stuff like that belongs.

Put the plugs back in, turned on the gas, cranked it over for what seemed like only ten seconds and man that sucker surprised us both by firing right up on all 4!

Pulled it out of the old horse barn it was in and boy you could almost tell it was happy to be back in the sunshine.

Pulled the mouse nests out of everywhere we could find 'em and gave her a good rinse with the garden hose until the gas ran out. Dumped the rest in and again she started right up.

Ran it around a little more then parked it in a sunny spot where we shut it down for the rest of the day. Couldn't figure out why the rear hydraulics weren't working. No oil spot under the tractor while it was in the barn, so I didn't check the level but heck if that's all it is then I guess I got away lucky. Maybe...

Oh, and yes, as y'all already knew but I needed proof, it is in fact a 4 speed. Not sure however about the Sherman, I don't believe it's an O/U, maybe just an overdrive but again I don't know anything. Maybe y'all can tell from one of the bunch of pics I'm about to put up.

So that's about all I have to say about that, pretty nice little tractor, Dearborn snow plow, Ford brand Bushhog, one of the rear rims has been replaced, I'd like to put new front tires on but I'd like to make 'em quite a bit wider so they float better and I'm afraid the rims are too narrow to do that so I'll have to figure that out too. Tractor comes with set of tire chains and he believes the OEM sun canopy and frame for it is still in his Dad's old shed along with the OEM snow cab and maybe just maybe the original front bumper/grill guard which I'm pretty stoked about.

Thanks for all your input fellas, I appreciate it!

So, get ready for a bunch of pics. Enjoy!