BurroBabe

I would like to know more about what kind of foam you can fill tires with. That's a lot of volume to fill.

I'm not fighting Nature; I'm trying to help Her. Don't get me started on how invasive species can outcompete native species and completely destroy the biodiversity of an ecosystem. Good pasture land? For goats if it wasn't for deer worm (P. tenuous), which cripples and kills them. The hills and wet soils are highly erodable under cattle hooves, My neighbor up the road turned a similar "pasture" to deep gullies grazing cows. I've got a young orchard; it needs mowing. I don't need to add livestock to chew on the bark and branches. I've got enough trouble with the deer herd.

Sorry mate, I don't speak Kiwi. What's "sell up" mean in English?

Lol, I raised dairy goats for 20 years. They can't eat all the brush in a large area, like 30 acres, especially if it's 20 ft high!

I got 2 full filter kits but they didn't have the small flat washers. I'll take your advice though and replace the rubber washers with composite on the top when I can get/make the right size.

Yeah, I can't take the heat south of the Mason-Dixon line either. That's my problem, Black Locust, Hawthorn, Cardinal Autumn Olive, huge thorns! I don't care about the rough ride, I finally got the seat springs working and I barely weigh over 115#. Nothing is flat here anyway.😁

Wish this had come through before I went to town to get an acorn nut. They had one that fit, metric, but the bolt was quite short and I knew it wouldn't get all the way down so I got a flange nut and used the rubber washer I had cut which hole was a little sloppy and rolled down an o-ring which filled the gap nice and tight. I'll have to see if I can fix my metal punch to cut the right size holes in the composite washers I have hundreds of. Maybe I'll find the nut when I pull the tractor out tomorrow. SUCCESS! BOWLS FILLED UP NICELY, A FEW CRANKS AND HE STARTED RIGHT UP. THANKS FOR STICKING WITH ME ON THIS. I WAS BEING REALLY BUMMED ABOUT HOW MANY DAYS I WASTED ON THIS BUT BOY, DID I FEEL GOOD WHEN HE STARTED AND RAN! YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST! (especially you Hydro) 😀 Even more good news. My IH guy found me a stabilizer bracket with an adjustable arm on it so the delay saved me a two hour drive in the tractor to take it down to him to drill out the fixed Ford bar he got me. Woo-hoo, I'm gonna be able to mow on the hills! PS. please check out my post on the general chat with my question about steel wheels

What you are calling a seal washer under the acorn nut, is that a metal washer like is used on oil pan drain bolts or a composite or rubber? If I cannot find the missing acorn nut (see my last night's submission with pics), do you think I can get the top airtight enough to drive to the dealer?

I have an IH 574 utility with the swept back front axle. With only about 30% tread left, the cost of new tires is really beyond me and, in the past, I've had just too much trouble with sliding sideways on my hilly land just brush hogging, as well as flats from black locust thorns, as well as leaky rims. The Mennonites near me use metal wheels, or metal with rectangles of rubber stacked on edge for airless rubber tires. Someone within a "reasonable" distance is selling a set of steel wheels and, measuring my hubs, it looks like they are a perfect fit! OMG, and cheap at $500 for a full set, front and back. Please can someone reassure me that I'm not out of my mind considering changing to these?

Not so good news. I wanted to send an update with pictures halfway through, in appreciation for all your help, seeing as someone had said you all like pictures. After taking the pictures, I struggled with this website to get access on my phone and gave up in frustration after all the hopeless requirements to verify who I am. A password wasn't enough. What is it with all this security running me round and round to verify it's my phone? It's not like this is a bank. Anyway, here are some pics before my disaster: When I took off the filters, of course there were 2 gaskets, the one he put in the housing and the one he forced into the top of the filter. I had said something about it being too large to belong down in that groove blocking the openings. Just like Snoshoe said. You only got a peek at the gunk in the first picture. The previous owner grew tobacco and the entire engine was covered with a thick coat of tobacco dust adhered to grease. Whenever I do maintenance, I take the opportunity to get to those unreachable places to clean it off. That takes time that helpers don't want to waste.After. This took a long time. My tractor gets more cleaning than my house. What are those threaded holes in the block behind the fuel filters for? Seals seated and ready for the canister. Now here's where my perfectionism gets me into trouble. I was thinking about the rubber washers that were supposed to be against the bolt head at the bottom of the cup and under the cap nut at the top. I had only found one in the drain pan used to catch the fuel. So I went out to the workshop with my magnetic tray and, I'm sure, just one cap nut and one bleeder nut. The only rubber washers with a big enough hole I could find was this double one with the groove so I brought it back to the barn and cut it apart. That gave me a pretty good match from the center part (bottom left). I assembled the front filter and it looked great! I didn't take a pic; figured I would when I had them both on and primed. Then the disaster. I COULDN'T FIND THE THE OTHER CAP NUT! That was at about 5 PM. I proceeded to spent the next four hours looking for it, or a replacement. I know it needs to be a cap nut to prevent air leaking in. I was sure I hadn't taken both nuts to the shop, but I had taken the magnetic tray so that I wouldn't drop the small parts. I swept every inch of the dirt floor with my 300 lb magnet, then proceeded to do the same in the workshop. Then I looked through all my electrical and plumbing supplies for a cap nut to fit. I know I have some, maybe not the right size but found none. Best I could do is a few regular nuts but they only thread on a few turns. The rod is soaking in my can of WD-40, the threads look fine, but I don't want to take any chances. I was thinking that, if some angel doesn't show me the lost cap bolt in the morning light, that maybe i can use a regular nut or two and put the the o-ring against the top of the housing and tighten the nut carefully. I've got some old finger caulk I could put around the outside of the o ring for good measure. I sure hope I can get a replacement cap nut. Damn. 😭

I see we're crossing in internet time. I'm not mean, I have to constantly apologize to him just to make a suggestion. I'm just hoping I can get this done myself before he comes by tomorrow with more ideas to help with. And I'm always profuse with thanks that he helps me in any way. I really don't have the physical strength to do some things. In this particular case, I would have done it myself, slowly, one filter at a time making sure that I was matching the arrangement of seals as they came off. Trouble is, when I went inside to get my wallet, he had already driven off to get the filters and just started doing the replacement. It puts me in a difficult position when I see him pulling everything apart before I can even get something down on the floor to catch little parts like seals and trying to suggest that we go at it more methodically. You know, I'm starting to get a panic attack just writing this. You have no idea what it is like to navigate working with a well-meaning neighbor who is wanting to help but, more often than not, stuff gets broken and I'm left with the mess. 😕 You know, I really love these guys, they have good hearts, but it is exhausting navigating the rules of engagement. I'm grateful to you too, for taking the trouble to explain everything very clearly so I understand exactly where everything goes. With all the details on where everything goes, I should be able to do this myself in the morning. I'll let you know how it goes! Thanks so much!!!

The old rings in the housing came off when we pulled the old filters, they were stuck onto the top edge. He put the new rings into the housing and the o rings on the stems, so that should be all okay but I'll look closely and make sure the ones in the housing are seated well. I saw the seal on the "bottom" of the draw bolt (I call it the bolt head) and he rolled the other o-ring up against that seal, since that is where the old one was when we disassembled it. I don't think it will stay on the glass by itself and if it falls in the dirt on the floor (dirt floor barn) it will be gone. Where would the rubber seal at the other end of the draw bolt lie? Against the inside of the housing? it didn't come off when he disassembled everything so I need to know where to look for it. If I can't find it, can I use any rubber washer? I'll have to look more closely at the drain screws too. Don't remember seeing seals on them. I'll go out in the morning to do the diss & reassembly. Maybe this will work well enough that we don't have to pull lines?

They are Wix filters and we replaced three big rings each. I don't think it had a solid top and I watched as my neighbor pushed the seal ring down in where I saw it obscure the openings in the top of the filter. I would have rested it on the top edge, but what do I know, I'm just a female. 🙄 But if that's the problem, why does the fuel flow into the first filter and not the second one?

I need to respond to the steps you gave one at a time. First, how could the tank valve be plugged if the fuel flows really freely to the first filter? Just asking because my neighbor who is helping me (arthritis in my hands makes a lot of stuff hard to do alone) is a very impatient sort of guy who gets overwhelmed with too many different aspects to a problem, so I attempt to dial it in to something specific. I'm also learning, so it may be that I don't understand where you mean the tank valve to be. Just trying to picture this. I'll go out and get some pictures before I ask for clarifications on the other steps.