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Somebody commented or maybe i read it somewhere that they put the muffler under the carb to help warm up the distillate fuel in cold weather so it would work better? Never realized they had upright exhaust to start with. Mine when it was first restored had an f20 style manifold on it im pretty sure. Dont know if thats what grandpa had done somewhere along the line or not. Always figured that the f20 manifolds with upright exhaust were less of a fire hazard and swapped out for that reason as distillate became less popular?

Tractor Supply still has it until they run out it seem. So I asked local Farm Supply coop they had it $10 a box less than TSC.

Very Nice Job!

We have a “not very nice some of the time” dog in the family, and poor Bailey was getting attention the other dog felt she should be getting... so off we went to the vet to get some ear wounds closed up... my dog has a head wrap, I have an arm sling, people might get the wrong idea seeing us together.

Roger----- You hit on something that I was going to comment on. Gary's post of the two Regulars today gave me a first time close up view of the manifold and upright exhaust. All that I have witnessed in person had the side mount exhaust as you have pictured. Fred's earlier comments explained that the flannel top air cleaner and upright exhaust applied to the 1924 models only. Going back to one of Gary's earlier pictures (below)-------we see the top mount exhaust and flannel top air intake. And-------in the fine print at bottom of picture, I see a date of 6/6/24. You can also note the top mount exhaust and flannel intake on my picture of my dad's two Regulars. (below) Then in Harvester's use of this same picture in the advertisement poster dated 1925-----I see the upright pipes had been photo-shopped out of the picture. (below) Apparently-----they made a change in 1925. I can't imagine riding for 12 hrs a day with those exhaust fumes blowing back on the operator------but apparently some engineer saw some advantage. Regardless--------those side mount "pot" exhaust sure made a distinctive "bark" (like music to my ears). The two Regulars I have on the yard both have the side exhaust and oil bath air cleaners-------as illustrated in your picture in the above post. Both have been converted to the enclosed (F-20) steering gear with rubber tires on front. Out of all of the old scrap iron I have laying around----I only have one front steel wheel for a Regular. And------it is used as a floor stand for a homemade shop fan that I remember from my earliest days. (still runs) ******* I really wish our friend Gary had not mentioned him throwing his "blue striped official steam engineers cap" into the firebox on that steamer. That could be incriminating evidence against him if some of his neighbors decided he needed to be committed to an asylum!!!? Please don't mention that to over 3-400 of his closest friends.? DD

A friend of mine inherited this 140 from his uncle several years ago. I've ask several times if he wanted to sell it. He always said no. Several weeks ago he came to me and said he realized he wasn't going to use it and ask if I'd like to buy it. I said let's go look at it. It's a 1972 model, all original. I looked at it said I'll take it, he said you want to talk to your wife first? I said no, I'll take it. It had been sitting for a couple years so I got the winch, etc thinking I would have to winch it on the trailer. I carried gas and jumper cables as well. Pulled the truck close enough to jump it after putting gas in it and it wouldn't fire. Found a piece of sand paper and sanded the points and it fired up and I drove it on the trailer. These are the pictures I took the day we looked at it.

Looks good! That cab is nice and quiet.