[tcb] Re: '56 bus
- From: "Dan" <ThatVWGuy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:51:13 -0400
He is going to restore it some day.... That is what they always tell me.
----- Original Message -----
From: Denis Dodson
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:13 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: '56 bus
Ok, tomorrow I will go back and try to get more info. Why would an 80 year
old guy want to keep a '56 anyway?
----- Original Message -----
From: sammie smith
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:08 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: '56 bus
Hey Denis: I know how to convert a tractor to 8 volts. I grew up on a
farm. For an address I'll deliver the info to them in person. Or you can just
do it. You remove the 6V battery and you insert the 8V battery. The extra 2V
aren't enough to hurt anything, the 6V generator will keep it charged, the 6V
starter will run a little faster and make the tractor start easier, and if it
has lights, doubtful on an old 6V farm tractor, they will just burn a little
brighter and probably burn out after about 5 years of infrequent use. That's
what we used to do on the farm. Cept most of our tractors didn't even have
batteries. Magnetos and arm cranking. These guys don't even sound up to speed
for Arkansas hillbillies are they would have known that. Or maybe they were
just really pulling your leg.
Conrad Klahn <conradk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
If I were you, I'd find as much info on the 6 to 8 volt conversion you
can and drop it by with your name and number on it.
On Mar 27, 2008, at 8:44 PM, Denis Dodson wrote:
So, I took Murray and went to Sam's Club to get huge bags of grass seed
for the Psycobilly parking/camping area. As I am coming out, one of the two
super old guys who check your receipt to make sure that you don't have a 60"
plasma under the tomatoes says, "Are you a mechanic?"
I'm thinking, what about me would provoke such a question, and I say,
"Why?" He says, "We are trying to figure out how to convert a 1950 tractor from
6 volt to 8". Putting aside the fact that I have never heard of 8 volt
anything, I suggested that there were probably about a million antique tractor
guys on the internet. They both looked at me as if I had spoken Navajo. I said
go to a library and they would do the search for him.
I loaded up Murray and as I was leaving the parking lot I drove by the
door and one of the guys waves at me to stop. I do. He says, "I have one of
these". I say really? "Yeah, It's older though, and not as nice."
He tells me that it is a '56. I asked him if it has an overhang over
the windshield. "No, and it also has a bigger door in the back, over the engine
door. It has a little bitty engine".
Of course, my next question was, "Wanna sell it?"
"No."
I know his name and I know where he works. If I can find out where he
lives and where his bus is. I might have to kill him.
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