Brought 57 cub home today

[wolc123]

I cleared our (2) driveways and my aunts next door after another 6” snowfall yesterday with the Cub. It looks like one of our neighbors to the east’s kids must have got a pickup with a plow on it, so I haven’t had to do that driveway yet this year.

My Cub didn’t fire up at first yesterday, but I removed the battery terminal connectors and wire brushed them and now all is well again.

I’m glad I got to my aunts because, when we drove by, a few hours after I plowed, I seen one of my cousins pull in to check up on the house.

Maybe we will make it all the until spring, without me needing my bigger tractor for snowplowing.

 

[ultrarunner]

I have a starter but never hooked up to a battery… always hand crank.

It starts first or second pull after I slowly turn the crank first.

This was not the case this year and found obstructed carburetor passages… a little cleaning and back in business.

 

[wolc123]

I had a crank handle for my last one but I gave it to the friend who I sold it to. I can’t remember if I ever tried it.

That one had been converted to 12 volts and really cranked fast with the electric starter. The one I got now is all original and still 6 volt and I prefer to keep it that way.

I did like the 12 volts for running a small tank sprayer with that old one though. I used that did spraying roundup on corn as I cultivated and for spraying fruit tree spray on a few apple trees.

I had an Alis Chalmers model C for about 20 years that didn’t have a battery on it and that I always started with a hand crank. Fortunately, the handle was extra long on the one or I might not be typing this now.

One time I cranked it over when it was in gear. It fired right up. I lept out of its way and it crushed a bunch of stuff in its path prior to pushing up against the barn wall and loosing traction, when I was able to hop on and shut it down.

 

[sandman2234]

I had a crank handle for my last one but I gave it to the friend who I sold it to. I can’t remember if I ever tried it.

That one had been converted to 12 volts and really cranked fast with the electric starter. The one I got now is all original and still 6 volt and I prefer to keep it that way.

I did like the 12 volts for running a small tank sprayer with that old one though. I used that did spraying roundup on corn as I cultivated and for spraying fruit tree spray on a few apple trees.

I had an Alis Chalmers model C for about 20 years that didn’t have a battery on it and that I always started with a hand crank. Fortunately, the handle was extra long on the one or I might not be typing this now.

One time I cranked it over when it was in gear. It fired right up. I lept out of its way and it crushed a bunch of stuff in its path prior to pushing up against the barn wall and loosing traction, when I was able to hop on and shut it down.

I have an Allis Chalmers B with battery start that I started from the ground thinking it was in nuetral. I had wiggled the gearshifter, but apparently there was too much play in gear. It was in a small garage and it hit a roll around toolbox, shoving it to the wall and then started climbing the wall. I was able to get it shut down before it climbed enough to flip over! I don't make that mistake anymore, always start them from the seat!
David from jax

 

[wolc123]

What a glorious Christmas Eve it was today. I woke up to a fresh 4” blanket of snow, that had Farmall Cub written all over it. It fired right up and made short work out of clearing our driveways. That was maybe the most fun I’ve had in the snow, since I sold my last snowmobile, over 10 years ago.

 

[wolc123]

We had another 4-5” snow last week. I finished up our stone driveway, by the barn, then did the blacktop driveway by the house garage. The PVC pipe edge broke off of the plow blade, just as I started on that. I think it had gotten me thru 4-5 plowings of our two driveways and my aunts next door.

Her driveway is also blacktop so I didn’t have any trouble on that our ours, without the pvc pipe. That’s only needed to keep stones out of the grass when plowing stone driveways before the ground is frozen.

We are getting a thaw and rain now, which is supposed to be turning to snow tonight. “Just in case”, I cut and slit another plow blade’s length of shd 80 PVC, and hammered that onto the blade.

 

[wolc123]

The Cub up and quit on me, the last time that I plowed with it in February. Fortunately, I had the plow up at the time. I was able to push it back into the barn with my John Deere loader tractor. The failure was just like someone turned off the switch, resulting in loss of spark.

It looked like the coil would be about the easiest thing to swap out, so I got the 6 volt one from NAPA. I had to modify the mounting bracket in order to make it fit. That turned out not to be the problem .

My old Ford 8n had gone down, at the end of last summer, with a similar “no spark” issue. I had also bought the same 6 volt NAPA coil for that, and a new wire harness, but hadn’t had time to install them yet.

After the Cub went down, I thanked the Lord that I have almost always had at least one John Deere tractor available, when I needed to get the work done. Owning those other brands has sure given me a lot more appreciation for the green ones.

I had started trying to repair the old Ford over the winter, but didn’t get too far. I just sold that one to a friend because I just don’t have the time to keep two off-color (non green) antique tractors running.

Soon, I hope to winch the Cub into the bed of my pickup, and haul it over to my favorite Farmall mechanic’s shop. Most Likely, new points and condenser is all it needs. I’ll get him to grease the throw out bearing while he has it.

There are a few small jobs I could use it for before late fall (I love it for pushing leaves), but I really won’t need it back until then. It was real nice on the cultipacker though. I’ll have to substitute my Durango field car on that, for planting buckwheat, in the next few weeks.

The only thing I’ll really miss the Ford for, is planting corn with my 2-row planter. There is no other make/model tractor that does a better job on that tool, than the Ford 8n. It works ok on my JD 4120, but the louder diesel engine on that makes it tougher to hear if there’s an issue with the planter, and the loader control and lack of steps prevents boarding the operators platform from the right side.

 

[DJ54]

I don't know if it will be the problem you find, but if the points came from NAPA I'm seeing several Cub owners saying the spring broke on the points set after approx. 50+ hours of use. Also heard the Echlin line of ignition parts was bought out by Standard Motor Products, and at one time they made a decent product made here in the U.S.A.

I urged one fellow to report it to the store manager where he bought them, and he did. Who knows what good it will do, but hopefully it gets back to SMP so they can check on what's wrong. Could have been the spring steel was a bad batch from heat treatment, or other reason. Hopefully they would test and correct that issue.

I had issues with Kohler engine fuel pumps from NAPA. OEM fuel pump went out after 36 years. Was in a pinch to mow grass before a weeks worth of rain coming in, so bit the bullet and paid $76 for a fuel pump. It lasted 5 weeks, good thing it had a 2 year warranty. Over that 2 year warranty period I replaced the fuel pump 8 times. All lasted 5 weeks or less, one didn't work right out of the box.

I told the store manager a younger fellow NAPA is shooting themselves in the foot selling these junk parts, as I'd rather pay a little more for a quality part. He just smiled and handed me a new pump and said OK. Doubt he let anyone know further up the food chain to let them know, so I tell guys looking to buy there don't waste their time. You'd think with the amount of returns it would catch the attention of someone upstairs, but maybe they don't care either.

 

[stuckmotor]

The Cub up and quit on me, the last time that I plowed with it in February. Fortunately, I had the plow up at the time. I was able to push it back into the barn with my John Deere loader tractor. The failure was just like someone turned off the switch, resulting in loss of spark.

It looked like the coil would be about the easiest thing to swap out, so I got the 6 volt one from NAPA. I had to modify the mounting bracket in order to make it fit. That turned out not to be the problem .

My old Ford 8n had gone down, at the end of last summer, with a similar “no spark” issue. I had also bought the same 6 volt NAPA coil for that, and a new wire harness, but hadn’t had time to install them yet.

After the Cub went down, I thanked the Lord that I have almost always had at least one John Deere tractor available, when I needed to get the work done. Owning those other brands has sure given me a lot more appreciation for the green ones.

I had started trying to repair the old Ford over the winter, but didn’t get too far. I just sold that one to a friend because I just don’t have the time to keep two off-color (non green) antique tractors running.

Soon, I hope to winch the Cub into the bed of my pickup, and haul it over to my favorite Farmall mechanic’s shop. Most Likely, new points and condenser is all it needs. I’ll get him to grease the throw out bearing while he has it.

There are a few small jobs I could use it for before late fall (I love it for pushing leaves), but I really won’t need it back until then. It was real nice on the cultipacker though. I’ll have to substitute my Durango field car on that, for planting buckwheat, in the next few weeks.

The only thing I’ll really miss the Ford for, is planting corn with my 2-row planter. There is no other make/model tractor that does a better job on that tool, than the Ford 8n. It works ok on my JD 4120, but the louder diesel engine on that makes it tougher to hear if there’s an issue with the planter, and the loader control and lack of steps prevents boarding the operators platform from the right side.

I've never owned a Cub but once bought a two disc semi mounted pull behind plow for one at an auction. I advertised it for resale and every call I can remember was from someone who wanted a single disc belly mounted plow. They must be good plows.